Obama Speaks Before Budget Deficit Commission
Airtime: Tues. Apr. 27 2010 | 9:52 AM ET
President Barack Obama speaks before the Budget Deficit Commission.

Airtime: Tues. Apr. 27 2010 | 9:52 AM ET
President Barack Obama speaks before the Budget Deficit Commission.

“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.”

Why to be cautious about gold right now, with Ashraf Laidi, CMC Markets

“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.”

Insight on the markets ahead of the opening bell, with Art Cashin, UBS.

Axel Weber, president of Deutsche Bundesbank, told CNBC that the Greek bailout will be implemented soon as he dismissed the idea that the euro zone is at risk of falling apart.

Insight on the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, with Andrew Friedman, former partner of Covington & Burling, and Tony Crescenzi, PIMCO.