UK Launches New Bank Tax
Airtime: Wed. Jun. 23 2010 |
The UK government unveiled a new tax on banks in its emergency budget Tuesday. David Pitt-Watson, chairman of Hermes Equity Ownership Svcs, and David Kuo from The Motley Fool have analysis.

Airtime: Wed. Jun. 23 2010 |
The UK government unveiled a new tax on banks in its emergency budget Tuesday. David Pitt-Watson, chairman of Hermes Equity Ownership Svcs, and David Kuo from The Motley Fool have analysis.

“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.”

Concluding market insight, with Jack Welch, “Straight from the Gut” author.

World energy leaders are turning very bullish on the outlook for natural gas at the annual CERTA Conference in Houston. CNBC’s Sharon Epperson talks to Helge Lund, CEO of Statoil, the world’s largest offshore oil and gas company.

Jose Manuel Barroso, EU Commission President, tells CNBC that he is confident Europe has moved in the right direction to help shore up investor sentiment.

The economy will likely grow at a 4% rate over the next 12 months, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, told CNBC.

Insight on the SEC’s high-level investigations, with Robert Khuzami, SEC director of enforcement.