Fortress: Eye on Deals
Airtime: Tues. Jul. 6 2010 |
Private equity firm Fortress Investment Group has made two deals in the commercial real estate arena. Daniel Mudd, CEO of the Fortress Investment Group, discusses the deals with CNBC.
Airtime: Tues. Jul. 6 2010 |
Private equity firm Fortress Investment Group has made two deals in the commercial real estate arena. Daniel Mudd, CEO of the Fortress Investment Group, discusses the deals with CNBC.
Apple unveiled a new version of the iPhone, which has more than 100 new features. Tech columnist Dan Ackerman shares his reaction.
Euro zone PMI data showed a bigger-than-expected rise in manufacturing and service sector activity in March. Geoffrey Dicks from Novus Capital Markets and Andy Brough from Schroders discuss the outlook.
The G20 is more political than it is economic and may not be the right forum for deciding economic issues such as banking levies, Moorad Choudhry from London Metropolitan University said. However, he said no firm policy announcement will be made by the G20 and the upcoming meeting is just a stepping stone on the way to a policy.
The world is doomed because the governments are taking over and will bankrupt us, says Marc Faber, editor & publisher at The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. He also tells co-guest host Michael Yoshikami, founder, president and chief investment strategist at YCMNet Advisor, CNBC’s Bernard Lo and Karen Tso, that the Goldman fraud case was mainly political.
Highlights from President Obama’s interview with CNBC’s John Harwood.
“We do not contemplate the possibility of a double-dip recession… It’s not impossible, but it is not something that we think is likely,” Jose Vinals, financial counselor and director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department from the IMF, told CNBC Thursday. Amartya Sen, author of The Idea of Justice, joined the discussion.