Shopping Mall M&A
Airtime: Fri. Aug. 20 2010 | 6:38 AM ET
Retailers may be on the shopping list for private equity firms, with Brian Sozzi, Wall Street Strategies research analyst.

Airtime: Fri. Aug. 20 2010 | 6:38 AM ET
Retailers may be on the shopping list for private equity firms, with Brian Sozzi, Wall Street Strategies research analyst.

The UK has one of the highest personal tax systems in the world after the top rate of income tax was raised to 50% Tuesday. Jeremy Cape from Denton Wilde Sapte and David Brunning from Brunning Newman Houghton discuss

Jim Gillespie, president and CEO of Coldwell Banker, one of the nation’s largest realty brokers, discusses the housing market with CNBC.

If we don’t strengthen the ECB and European Commission, we should dismantle the euro, Carlos Gutierrez, former commerce secretary and former Kellogg CEO, said Thursday. “We’re at an inflection point,” he said. “The whole concept of the euro is being tested.”

Automakers Renault, Nissan and Daimler agreed to swap stakes in a bid to increase scale and share costs Wednesday. “There’s a demand for premium small cars growing, so we definitely want to participate and we want to do that successfully,” Dieter Zetsche, chairman of Daimler told CNBC. Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO of Renault-Nissan, also spoke to CNBC.

Buffett on Currencies, Market Lessons & More.

As European governments promised they will take steps to reduce gaping budget deficits, famous investor Jim Rogers told CNBC he bought the single European currency. Luca Silipo from Natixis and David Kotok from Cumberland Advisors joined the discussion.