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Lloyds Banking Group completed the first stage of its massive capital raising plan. The bank said demand for its $14.9 billion bond exchange was strong. Simon Kennedy from Marketwatch.com said Lloyds got many of its bondholders to exchange their bond holdings for new notes. Wayne Bishop from King & Shaxson joined the discussion. More......

Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke to UK business leaders at the Confederation of British Industry's conference Monday. Justin Urquhart Stewart from Seven Investment Management and Stephen Alambritis from British Federation of Small Businesses discuss Brown's comments. More......

"A massive spike in US Treasury rates" is "one of the issues we have on our radar screens as a potential black swan," William Skeean from Edge Capital Partners said Monday. "A spike up in interest rates would be detrimental both to credit and to equities if unanticipated." More......

Last week was "one of those short-term dips that turns out to be a buying opportunity," William Skeean from Edge Capital Partners said Monday. Going into the end of the year, volume is likely to decline, but equity markets will continue to trade up, he added. More......

Some people have had a very good year and should be up 40-60% if they trailed the indices, Louis Gargour from LNG Capital said Friday. He told CNBC these people shouldn't continue to take risk as that play is likely to affect their bonus if they make any losses through until year-end. More......

Thailand's economy grew 1.3% in the third quarter, data showed Monday, following strong GDP figures from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Alvin Liew from Global Research Standard Chartered Bank told CNBC the Southeast Asia region "is slowly moving out of this recession due to the very aggressive stimulus packages." More......

The US does not have an inflation problem yet, but "within the next 12-to-16 months we could be in for a dose of serious inflation," Peter Cardillo from Avalon Partners told CNBC Monday. More...

A closer look inside Asia, with Tai Hui Standard Chartered. More...

Max Knudsen from PIA - First.com takes a technical look at the dollar versus the yen, the euro versus the yen and the pound versus the yen. More...

The Tocqueville Gold Fund is up nearly 680 percent in the last ten years. And even as gold continues to hit new highs, sr. portfolio manager John Hathaway says it's poised to head higher. More...