From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:40 PM

Spencer Patton, founder and chief investment officer at Steel Vine Investments LLC, talks about the drivers of gold prices and investment strategy. Patton, speaking with Lisa Murphy on Bloomberg Television’s "Fast Forward," also discusses the outlook for the oil market.

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:26 PM

BP Capital LLC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer T. Boone Pickens talks about the prospects of Congress passing a Pickens-backed bill to subsidize natural-gas vehicles, opposition to the bill from fellow billionaire Charles Koch and the outlook for oil prices. He speaks on Bloomb...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:26 PM

Bloomberg Television provides an in-depth look at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and the fallout facing the media empire following last week's shuttering of The News of the World. Host Margaret Brennan speaks to a roundtable of reporters and experts including Stewart Purvis, a former UK broadc...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:26 PM

Bloomberg Risk Takers: A new series that provides a captivating look into a new generation of entrepreneurs who have taken a gamble, faced down failure, and revolutionized the way the world does business. How did they do it? Find out on Bloomberg Risk Takers. Featuring JetBlue founder, ...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:26 PM

Michael Siegel, an associate professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, talks about new U.S. government requirements for cigarette warning labels. Images of a corpse and cancerous lungs are among nine graphic warnings that tobacco companies must start placing on cig...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:25 PM

James O’Sullivan, chief economist at MF Global Inc., discusses the outlook for the U.S. labor market, the government's debt negotiations and the European sovereign debt crisis. O'Sullivan speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness With Margaret Brennan."

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:25 PM

Shaw Wu, an analyst with Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc., discusses Cisco Systems Inc.'s plans to cut jobs. The largest networking-equipment company may cut as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, to revive profit growth, according to two people familiar with th...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:25 PM

Al Hunt, executive editor at Bloomberg News, discusses President Barack Obama’s comments on U.S. debt-reduction talks. More negotiations are scheduled between Obama and congressional leaders at the White House this afternoon. Hunt speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness W...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:57 AM

Bloomberg Government analyst Christopher Payne talks about reasons for the financial crisis and eventual enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in July 2010. Payne says the growth of the unregulated shadow banking sector led to unchecked credit exp...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:57 AM

James Lockhart, vice chairman for WL Ross & Co., talks about the debate over cutting benefits for entitlement programs like Social Security as part of a deficit-reduction deal. Lockhart, speaking with Deirdre Bolton and Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television’s "InsideTrack," also di...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:57 AM

California State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a San Francisco Democrat, talks with Bloomberg’s Michael B. Marois about the state's property-tax law known as Proposition 13. The measure, passed by voters in 1978, chopped tax rates by more than half and is also blamed for California&...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:57 AM

News Corp. boosted its stock-buyback program to $5 billion amid a probe into alleged phone hacking by the company’s U.K. journalists. News Corp., which had $1.8 billion remaining under a previous buyback program, said it plans to repurchase Class A and Class B shares from time to ti...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:57 AM

Azad Zangana, an economist at Schroder Investment Management Ltd, talks about U.K. inflation and the outlook for European Central Bank monetary policy. Zangana, speaking wtih Maryam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television’s "The Pulse," also discusses Italian bonds and the European sovereig...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:57 AM

Keith Wirtz, chief investment officer of Fifth Third Asset Management Inc., talks about the decision by News Corp. to increase its stock-buyback program to $5 billion and the outlook for the U.K. news-publishing industry. Wirtz, speaking with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s "In ...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:57 AM

David Walker, chief executive officer of Comeback America Initiative and a former U.S. comptroller general, talks about the outlook for political compromise on reducing the federal deficit and raising the debt ceiling. Walker, speaking with Betty Liu and Lizzie O’Leary on Bloomberg ...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:57 AM

Eric Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital LLC, talks about the outlook for Research In Motion Ltd. Jackson speaks with Betty Liu, Dominic Chu and Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television’s "In the Loop."

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:57 AM

Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, talks about the prospects for a compromise agreement on reducing deficits and raising the $14.3 trillion federal debt ceiling before the government exhausts its borrowing authority on Aug. 2. He s...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:56 AM

Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank, discusses the outlook for the European sovereign debt crisis as Italian and Spanish borrowing costs surge. Schmieding speaks with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s "In the Loop."

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:56 AM

David Bank, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, talks about News Corp.'s action to boost its stock-buyback program to $5 billion amid a probe into alleged phone hacking by the company’s U.K. journalists. Bank speaks with Betty Liu, Jon Erlichman, and Dominic Chu on Bloomberg Tel...

From: Bloomberg on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:36 AM

Timothy Bitsberger, managing director at BNP Paribas and a former assistant secretary for financial markets at the U.S. Treasury, talks about the outlook for bipartisan U.S. deficit-reduction negotiations and the impact on Treasuries. Bitsberger speaks with Erik Schatzker on Bloombe...