Solid Chain Store Sales Numbers
Airtime: Thurs. Oct. 7 2010 | 9:07 AM ET
Investors are also watching those retail chain store sales numbers coming in, with CNBC’s Jane Wells.

Airtime: Thurs. Oct. 7 2010 | 9:07 AM ET
Investors are also watching those retail chain store sales numbers coming in, with CNBC’s Jane Wells.

Business economists are expressing the kind of optimism they haven’t had in years, with CNBC’s Steve Liesman.

Discussing whether President Obama is doing enough for small business owners, with Simon Denyer, Reuters and Bernard Whitman, Democratic pollster.

“As far as I’m concerned the technicals are in tact, says Guy Adami. We said the S&P would over-correct to the upside and trade up to 1130 and then turn lower — and it did. Now we’re likely in the next leg lower. We have to see what happens as the S&P trades down to the lower end of the range – around 1040 – will it hold next time we test it?
The patterns in the S&P suggest that support will not hold this time, adds Oppenheimer’s Carter Worth. My persumption is we break lower. I think we go to 980. I don’t think a great crash is coming but we are clearly entering a period when the downside should be the focus of investors.”

Following the same path as Japan, China will face an inevitable collapse within the next decade or so, says George Friedman, CEO of Stratfor. He tells CNBC’s Martin Soong that a country’s growth rate doesn’t represent health.

The G20 Summit in Toronto wrapped up yesterday after two days of high-intensity meetings with world leaders, with Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago-Booth School of Business and John Engler, National Association Of Manufacturers CEO.

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.