Housing Starts Hit 18-Month High
Airtime: Tues. May 18 2010 | 10:12 AM ET
Construction of new homes rose more than expected in April, but new building permits fell sharply. CNBC’s Diana Olick parses the data.

Airtime: Tues. May 18 2010 | 10:12 AM ET
Construction of new homes rose more than expected in April, but new building permits fell sharply. CNBC’s Diana Olick parses the data.

Blackrock’s Doll: Abating Market Ambiguities. Insight on where the markets are headed, with Robert Doll, BlackRock vice chairman.

Quantitative easing is not going to work, warns Stephen Roach, non-executive chairman at Morgan Stanley Asia. In this First On CNBC interview, he tells CNBC’s Chloe Cho why, as well as if capital controls will help or hamper the global recovery.

Discussing the top issues being tackled at the economic forum, with Vikram Pandit Citigroup CEO and CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo.

The ISM Manufacturing Index slipped to 59.7 in May from 60.4 in April, and construction spending jumped 2.7% in April. CNBC’s Steve Liesman parses the data.

The VC Bright Spot, It’s a bull market for venture capital, with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin,

“Russia has growth and Russia has money and Europe has neither,” Kingsmill Bond from Troika Dialog told CNBC Tuesday. “Russia has the capacity to support Europe clearly with its cash,” he added.