TARP Officially Over
Airtime: Mon. Oct. 4 2010 | 8:30 AM ET
Insight on the end of TARP, with Neel Kashkari, managing director and head of new investment initiatives PIMCO.
Airtime: Mon. Oct. 4 2010 | 8:30 AM ET
Insight on the end of TARP, with Neel Kashkari, managing director and head of new investment initiatives PIMCO.
West African-focused miner Randgold Resources reported a 79% jump in full-year profit, benefiting from high gold prices and record production. It plans to raise its full-year dividend by 30%. “It was a great year,” CEO Mark Bristow said Monday. “We strengthened our balance sheet through last year.”
Discussing the US economy with James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Cho-Oon Khong, chief political analyst at Shell International, sees an energy supply squeeze with demand expansion. He speaks to CNBC’s Martin Soong & Sri Jegarajah about the implications of this.
“As far as I’m concerned the technicals are in tact, says Guy Adami. We said the S&P would over-correct to the upside and trade up to 1130 and then turn lower — and it did. Now we’re likely in the next leg lower. We have to see what happens as the S&P trades down to the lower end of the range – around 1040 – will it hold next time we test it?
The patterns in the S&P suggest that support will not hold this time, adds Oppenheimer’s Carter Worth. My persumption is we break lower. I think we go to 980. I don’t think a great crash is coming but we are clearly entering a period when the downside should be the focus of investors.”
Phillip Deans, professor of international relations at Temple University of Japan, says U.S.-Japan ties are strong and are unlikely to change under prime minister Naoto Kan. He also discusses Japan’s new cabinet line-up, with CNBC’s Oriel Morrison.
Morgan Stanley CFO On The Economy