Econ Analysis: CPI, Retail Sales
Airtime: Wed. Apr. 14 2010 | 8:30 AM ET
Parsing today’s economic data with John Brady, of MF Global, and the CNBC news team.

Airtime: Wed. Apr. 14 2010 | 8:30 AM ET
Parsing today’s economic data with John Brady, of MF Global, and the CNBC news team.

Political pressure is rising ahead of the midterm elections, with Greg Valliere, Potomac Research Group, Allen Sinai ,Decision Economics.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has seen its stock drop 26% since its IPO in June. William Brodsky, the exchange’s chairman and CEO, tells CNBC what’s behind the decline.

Gold is rapidly approaching the $1,300 mark, and James DiGeorgia, publisher of the “Gold & Energy Advisor,” says this is just the beginning of the bullion breakout.

“The real economy has improved,” Yuwa Hendrick-Wong from MasterCard Worldwide said Wednesday. “At the moment, equities everywhere, especially in Europe, to a lesser extent in the US, are way ahead from what we can see in the real economy.” He sees stocks going into a “period of volatility.”

Emerging Inflation to Squeeze West, Inflation in emerging markets is a major issue for Western companies as input prices are set to rise because of it, Philippa Malmgren, president of Principalis Asset Management, told CNBC Wednesday.

Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and and co-CIO of Pimco, discusses the Fed’s “new normal” with CNBC.