Where Richest Are Putting Riches
Airtime: Mon. Oct. 25 2010 | 12:14 PM ET
Elliott Weissbluth, CEO of financial services company HighTower, tells CNBC why his firm is making a hard push into wealth management.

Airtime: Mon. Oct. 25 2010 | 12:14 PM ET
Elliott Weissbluth, CEO of financial services company HighTower, tells CNBC why his firm is making a hard push into wealth management.

Joshua Birnbaum, a former managing director in the structured products group at Goldman Sachs, delivers his opening statement before a Senate panel that alleges Goldman profited from the housing meltdown and made billions at the expense of clients.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has seen its stock drop 26% since its IPO in June. William Brodsky, the exchange’s chairman and CEO, tells CNBC what’s behind the decline.

Discussing the worst trade of an otherwise stellar career, with Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone Group’s chairman, CEO & co-founder.

“The real economy has improved,” Yuwa Hendrick-Wong from MasterCard Worldwide said Wednesday. “At the moment, equities everywhere, especially in Europe, to a lesser extent in the US, are way ahead from what we can see in the real economy.” He sees stocks going into a “period of volatility.”

About half of the FOMC now sees risks tilted to the downside, reports CNBC’s Steve Liesman. Zane Brown, of Lord Abbett, and James Bianco, of Bianco Research, share their views.

Discussing whether financial regulation will bring back the individual investors to the markets, with Muriel Siebert, Siebert Financial and Irene Aldridge, Able Alpha Trading.