Richard Branson's Carbon War Room
Airtime: Wed. Apr. 21 2010 | 3:23 PM ET
Fighting climate change, with Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder & chairman and Jigar Shah, Carbon War Room CEO.

Airtime: Wed. Apr. 21 2010 | 3:23 PM ET
Fighting climate change, with Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder & chairman and Jigar Shah, Carbon War Room CEO.

Airtime: Wed. Oct. 27 2010 | 10:00 AM ET New home sales rise 6.6 percent in September, with CNBC’s Diana Olick.

Japan has revised downwards its Q4 GDP growth to 0.9%. Frederic Neumann, senior Asian economist at HSBC, tells CNBC’s Martin Soong & Karen Tso that this revision adds pressure on the BOJ to extend its easy monetary policy.

Existing home sales in March rose 6.8 percent, reports CNBC’s Diana Olick.

“The bond vigilantes are one by one picking off the weakest countries starting with Greece,” Neil Michael from London & Capital told CNBC Wednesday. The “vigilantes” are telling governments to “get a grip of their public finances,” he added.

Sun Microsystems founder Bill Joy, who is currently with VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, tells CNBC he has turned his focus from computer power to solar power.

Discussing the stability of the new Australian government after the Labor Party narrowly secured a one-seat majority, with Nick Sherry, assistant treasurer of Australia and CNBC’s Karen Tso.