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Alexandra Lebenthal, CEO of Alexandra Lebenthal, told CNBC she was pleased by yesterday's coordinated dollar injections by five central banks. "Global markets are so connected that there has to be a concerted effort on what to do," she said. more...

Paul Day, chief strategist at Market Securities, told CNBC that dollar lending by central banks would not solve Europe's problems. "This is obviously an issue to do with liquidity, rather than solvency," he said. more...

The coordinated injection of dollars into banking systems by five of the world's largest central banks is the biggest news in the markets, Valentijn Van Nieuwenhuijzen, head of strategy at ING Investment Management, told CNBC. more...

Analysts have been slashing earnings estimates for big Wall Street banks recently, particularly for Goldman Sachs, as unpredictable trading markets and weak merger and underwriting volumes hurt the sector's profit potential. more...

A look at the U.S. ten year yield, and insight on the best strategy for playing the bond market and finding income, with Eric Pellicciaro, BlackRock managing director and head of global rates investments. more...

New international bank capital rules are “anti-American” and the US should consider pulling out of the Basel group of global regulators, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, has said. more...

"The Japanese Yen is being used by people as the last resort," Seijiro Takeshita, director at Mizuho International, told CNBC. more...

The Swiss central bank's decision to set a limit on how much the Swiss franc can appreciate against the euro is "a huge mistake," investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC.com on Wednesday. more...

The Bank of Japan will probably stand pat on policy on Wednesday but may debate more easing if it feels that global recession fears and volatile markets pose such a threat to the country's economic recovery that it warrants additional monetary stimulus. more...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) came out fighting Tuesday, announcing its intention to set a minimum exchange rate for the Swiss franc against the euro, in a move which sent European shares and the price of gold up. more...

The Swiss National Bank said on Tuesday it would set a minimum exchange rate target of 1.20 francs to the euro and would enforce it by buying foreign currency in unlimited quantities. more...

China's consumer price inflation will remain high in the near future, although prices will gradually fall, and Beijing needs to be on alert, deputy central bank governor Ma Delun said on Sunday. more...

The Swiss central bank has started to buy French and German government debt from the markets to try to bring the Swiss franc down, Dow Jones newswire wrote on Saturday, quoting a report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. more...

CNBC's Guy Johnson reports from Greece on the proposed merger between the country's second and third largest banks, Alpha Bank and Eurobank. more...

China should diversify its huge foreign exchange reserves into non-financial assets to hedge against risks from a long-term decline in the U.S. dollar, Xia Bin, an academic adviser to the central bank said on Tuesday. more...

While European banks do have substantial investments in sovereign debt, the concerns in Europe are overblown and the banks will get through this rough patch, says Kelly King, BB&T Corporation chairman/CEO. more...

Banking regulators should consider temporarily lowering capital requirements in an effort to boost the feeble supply of credit to the economy, according to a top official at the Bank of England, the FT reports. more...

As the Swiss National Bank (SNB) gets ready to meet on Wednesday, a number of analysts say the central bank has few choices to try and stem the franc's recent rise. more...

CNBC's Mary Thompson has the story on the bank under fire for the way it prices currency trades for pension funds. more...