Roubini's Economic Outlook
What to expect for the second half of the year, with Nouriel Roubini, Roubini Global Economics chairman.

What to expect for the second half of the year, with Nouriel Roubini, Roubini Global Economics chairman.

“The big risk is that there will be a downturn in markets that could impact the bond, the equity and the credit markets,” Nouriel Roubini, chairman of RGEMonitor.com, told CNBC when discussing the economic outlook Friday.

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.

ECB President Jean Claude Trichet said the EU’s bank stress tests are being finalized and they are important. Thorsten Polleit from Barclays Capital has analysis.

Shares of Apple hit a lifetime high after quarterly results showed consumers continued to snap up millions of iPods and iPhones. Conway Gittens reports.

Portuguese Central Bank Governor Vitor Constancio was formally approved by EU finance ministers as the next vice president of the ECB Tuesday. Constancio could be considered “dovish,” Nick Matthews from RBS told CNBC.

CNBC’s Rick Santelli has the breakdown of the economic data and analysis with Tony Crescenzi, Pimco senior VP/market strategist & portfolio manager; Barry Knapp, Barclays PLC head of U.S. portfolio strategy; Frederic Mishkin former Federal Reserve Board governor and CNBC’s Steve Liesman.