"Although there seems to be some signs of movement on a bigger, and hopefully better, European bailout, all you can say about the Greece crisis is that it is still ongoing," Nick Carn, founder of Carn Macro Advisors, told CNBC. more...

Until the market in general "feels calmer about the euro zone this sort of roller coaster ride is likely to go on for a while," John Raymond, senior analyst-European banks at CreditSights Limited, told CNBC Tuesday. more...

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The UK's credit rating is four notches too high at present, and should be downgraded to A+, John Hydeskov, senior analyst at Danskebank, told CNBC. The analyst predicted that the UK would be formally downgraded in 2012, as a result of falling real growth and rising national debt. more...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is unlikely to announce a third round of quantitative easing in his Jackson Hole speech this afternoon, Tony Fratto, the director of Hamilton Place Strategies, a public policy research firm, told CNBC. more...

Banks are in no better shape than they were in March 2008, Riccardo Ronco, technical analyst at Aviate Global, told CNBC. He suggested they still faced severe funding problems and that "things will get worse before they get better". more...

The Japanese government's unconventional plans to minimize the effect of a rising yen on its businesses did not stop the currency from rising against the dollar again Wednesday. more...

Markets are just beginning to price in the "new normal" of weak growth and a lack of credible policy responses, according longtime bear Bob Janjuah, co-head of cross-asset allocation strategy at Nomura. more...

On July 21, EU leaders agreed to a second bailout for Greece, one that was supposed to draw a line under the euro zone debt crisis and give the new government in Athens a chance come to grips with the huge debts it inherited when it was elected. One month later, and the situation appears to be...

"The euro was a marriage but no one told us exactly what we'd actually end up in and what were the divorce proceedings," Tim Skeet, managing director at RBS told CNBC. "The answer is that no one's thought that through and I think we have to believe in this marriage," he added. more...

"The debt deal has basically punted the whole problem into the future... and it doesn't really reduce the debt. What is does is it slows the trajectory of growth," Philippa Malmgren, president and founder of Principalis Asset Management told CNBC. "From an investor point of view, you don't see...

"Forty percent of the commodities in the world are being consumed each year by the Chinese to produce about 9.4 percent of the world's GDP, so you've got the most inefficient use of commodities going on there in history," Bill Smead, CEO of Smead Capital Management told CNBC. "We think...

"You don't need to be fully invested at all times and why would you want to be invested right now?" Pedro De Noronha, managing director at Noster Capital told CNBC. "It's much better to just move to the sidelines and wait and see what's going to happen," he added. more...

As the U.S.' Aug. 2 deadline looms to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling, three analysts told CNBC Friday there are still buying opportunities if the market dips on worries over the shaky debt talks. more...

The current political turmoil may put technical levels for stocks at risk, Philippe Gijsels, the head of research at BNP Paribas Fortis Global Markets in Brussels, told CNBC.com in an interview Thursday. more...

As the yen continues to strengthen, a number of Japanese officials in recent days have been warning the market about one-sided moves. One analyst says yen intervention is a distinct possibility, and could be carried out on a global scale, if the market were to experiece a sudden sell-off in the...

As the debate over raising the debt ceiling in the United States lurches onward, one analyst tells CNBC that if America wants to keep taxing its people like it's the 1950’s, it will need to significantly cut back on spending. more...

Since the euro zone debt crisis began, disagreements between the German Chancellor and the head of the European Central Bank have hampered attempts to find a lasting solution, analysts have said. more...

European banking stocks fell sharply Tuesday, with Unicredit and Deutsche Bank among the top losers, on fears that sovereign debt crises in peripheral euro zone countries might spread into the continent's larger economies and trigger a more widespread banking crisis. more...

As Greece stands on the cusp of another bailout, one analyst says the fix is likely to be only temporary and he expects other Euro-zone countries to also require new rounds of funding. He believes the region's economic uncertainty will further weaken the Euro *and boost gold prices. more...