Bernanke on Bank Supervision
Airtime: Wed. Mar. 17 2010 |
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gives his opening statement to a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the link between bank supervision and monetary policy.

Airtime: Wed. Mar. 17 2010 |
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gives his opening statement to a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the link between bank supervision and monetary policy.

It would take a sharp fall in the price of oil or another crisis to change Russia’s economic system for the long term, Nouriel Roubini, economist and New York University Professor, told CNBC Thursday.

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 euro is “ludicrously” for many of the struggling European countries such as Greece, but it is even too high for Germany, which is a competitive country, Roger Nightingale from Pointon York told CNBC Monday. Nightingale considers the future of the monetary union.

President Obama discusses his trade agenda at the Export-Import Bank’s Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

Everybody is so bearish about the euro that it looks like now is a good time to buy the single European currency, Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC Thursday. The only big bull markets Rogers sees in the next decade is commodities and he suggests having real assets such as cotton, silver and natural gas for protection in these markets.

Ara Hovnanian, CEO of Hovnanian Enterprises, tells CNBC the real estate market is bouncing back.