investment

An investment vehicle for the virtual currency bitcoin has gained backing from some prominent investment firms, according to its parent company Pantera Capital Management. more...

Jon Steinberg, BuzzFeed president & COO, discusses the state of the bitcoin currency after it was called a Ponzi game and a conduit to criminal and illegal activities by economist Nouriel Roubini. CNBC's Jon Fortt provides insight. more...

Haywood Cheung, President of Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange, talks about the world's first yuan-denominated gold contract. more...

An outlook on where the Euro is headed vs the dollar, with David Woo, Bank of America Merrill Lynch global research. more...

As yield becomes ever-harder to capture, where will you move your investment capital? more...

Central and Eastern Europe is still a place where investors can make money but they have to choose their sectors and stocks carefully, emerging markets specialist investor Mark Mobius told CNBC.com in an interview. more...

The Philadelphia Fed Index of Business Activity in the Mid-Atlantic region contracted for the second month in a row. Discussing how to find value in the markets, with Jim Dunigan, PNC Asset Management Group and CNBC's Bob Pisani. more...

"Risk on" and "risk off" continue to be debated and the weakness of the global economy is weighing on investors, but European high yield corporate bonds are enjoying something of a rally. 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...

Many analysts in the region are bullish on Saudi Arabia, compared to other markets in the Middle East, and recent data support that view. more...