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.

Charts: Beware of Euro Dips vs Dollar. The euro is likely to continue its rise against the dollar in the long term, but investors should watch out for setbacks in the near term, Royce Tostrams, technical analyst at Tostrams Groep, told CNBC Friday.

Why fiscal conservatism threatens the world economy, with Joseph Stiglitz, nobel laureate & economist.

As the Japanese yen hits an 8-month high against the dollar, Timothy Connors, corporate forex manager at Custom House Western Union, speaks to CNBC’s Yousef Gamal El-Din, Maithreyi Seetharaman & Sri Jegarajah about whether the BOJ will intervene to slow the currency’s climb.

The CNBC news team parses today’s economic data. Ken Langone, CEO of Invemed, shares his insight and tells CNBC he sees a jobless recovery ahead of us.

Chris Whalen, managing director of Institutional risk Analytics, shares his reaction to Citi’s quarterly results.

“In the European marketplace, not withstanding that we’re ten years into this, we’re still in very, very early days,” Ted Hood, CEO of Source, creator of ETF products, said of ETFs. “In the US market, we’re seeing 50% retail participation in ETFs.”