A Business-Led Recovery?
Airtime: Thurs. Aug. 5 2010 | 7:41 PM ET
A look ahead of how the markets will react to tomorrow’s data, with Jason Trennert, Strategas Research Partners and Andy Busch, BMO Capital Markets.

Airtime: Thurs. Aug. 5 2010 | 7:41 PM ET
A look ahead of how the markets will react to tomorrow’s data, with Jason Trennert, Strategas Research Partners and Andy Busch, BMO Capital Markets.

Hedge fund legend Jim Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies, shares his market and economic outlook with CNBC’s Melissa Lee.

Examining a new controversial proposal to open a new derivatives market that would allow investors to bet on box office futures, with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin and Howard Lutnick, Cantor Fitzgerald chairman/CEO.

The Australian economy grew at its fastest pace in 3 years during the second quarter. John Peters, senior economist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, breaks down the numbers, with CNBC’s Bernard Lo.

“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.”

UK GDP growth data came in stronger than expected for the second quarter. “This is probably as good as it gets for a while, the outlook is quite tough,” Kevin Grice from Capital Economics told CNBC Friday.

Eric Cinnamond, of Intrepid Capital Funds, shares his favorite small cap stocks picks.