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Daragh Maher, FX strategist at HSBC, and Stephanie Flanders, chief market strategist for the U.K. and Europe at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, discuss the potential stumbling blocks for sterling's rally. more...

CNBC's Tyler Mathisen looks ahead to what are likely to be next week's top business and financial stories. Pending home sales and ISM numbers next week, as well as consumer confidence numbers. Also, year end auto sales. more...

Shane Oliver, head of investment Strategy and Chief Economist at AMP Capital Investors, expects China to start easing its monetary policy by the end of this year. more...

Scott Paul, Executive Director at Alliance for American Manufacturing tells CNBC the US and China have been at a trade war for a decade, and the currency bill going through Congress will end it. more...

Discussing whether the euphoria over a potential solution to the European debt crisis are premature, with CNBC's Simon Hobbs; Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard University, and Nicholas Burns, Harvard University. "I'm not confident Greece will have discipline," says Burns. "The Greek political crisis is...

"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...

An EU official told CNBC Tuesday that a meeting on Friday is very likely, as Europe’s politicians have a new sense of urgency after the markets started targeting Italy. more...

June's surprise pickup in manufacturing activity makes it more likely the economy's soft patch is the result of temporary forces, and growth should pick up in the second half, economists say more...

The end of the second round of quantitative easing in the US has been likened to a department store's biggest customer leaving the store by Tony Crescenzi, a strategist at Pimco. more...

Investment professionals have a new pitch: The sky could soon be falling. So-called black swan funds — named for rare and unexpected events — offer a way to profit in the event of a market collapse, the New York Times reports. more...

Yes, the Greek drama is fascinating. But don't forget - QE2 is ending, and that will hit currencies too. Here's how. more...

Debating whether the Fed should install another round of quantitative easing, with Drew Matus, UBS Investment Research; CNBC's Rick Santelli & Steve Liesman. more...

The World Bank expects the U.S. dollar to lose its solitary dominance in the global economy by 2025, as the euro and the renminbi establish themselves on an equal footing in a new “multi-currency” monetary system,**the FT reports. more...