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.

Concluding thoughts on the market and economy, with Tony Crescenzi, PIMCO.

Economists & the Obama-conomy. Economist weigh in on President Obama’s economic and health care policies, with CNBC’s Steve Liesman.

Insight on the European debt crisis and world markets, with Mohamed El-Erian, PIMCO CEO & co-CIO,

A look at the fast food chain’s earnings and strategies for staying afloat in the economy, with Matthew DiFrisco, Oppenheimer & Co. executive director/senior analyst.

Robert Weissenstein, CIO at Credit Suisse Private Banking Americas, tells CNBC volume has made the rally more viable.

“The real economy has improved,” Yuwa Hendrick-Wong from MasterCard Worldwide said Wednesday. “At the moment, equities everywhere, especially in Europe, to a lesser extent in the US, are way ahead from what we can see in the real economy.” He sees stocks going into a “period of volatility.”