March US Trade Deficit $40.42B
Airtime: Wed. May 12 2010 | 8:30 AM ET
The March trade gap is at its highest since December 2008. CNBC’s Rick Santelli and Steve Liesman parse the data.

Airtime: Wed. May 12 2010 | 8:30 AM ET
The March trade gap is at its highest since December 2008. CNBC’s Rick Santelli and Steve Liesman parse the data.

CNBC’s Bertha Coombs has the details on a major breakthrough on a therapeutic cancer vaccine.

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.

Insight on women in the banking business, with Diane Reyes, Citigroup global head of payments; Shelaghmichael Brown, BBVA Compass; Susan Ehrlich, Sears Financial Services; Carla Harris, Morgan Stanley Investment Management; Michelle Van Dyke, Fifth Third Bancorp; and Barb Rehm, US Banker.

Chris Richter, auto analyst at CLSA, says that Nissan CEO’s forecast for electric cars to make up 10 percent of global auto sales by 2020 sounds ambitious. He tells CNBC’s Oriel Morrison, that there is a market for green cars and a plug-in hybrid may be the compromise solution for now.

Simon Cooper, president and COO of the Ritz-Carlton, tells CNBC about his hotel chain’s expansion plans and discusses the overall luxury hotel industry