Underwriters of GM’s hotly anticipated initial public offering are raising the deal’s price to $32 to $33 per share Monday night, someone familiar with the matter told CNBC.

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GM Underwriters Set to Raise IPO Price to $32-$33 a Share

Regional banks are going to become less profitable because of tighter financial regulations and are likely to close thousands of bank branches to cut costs, analyst Meredith Whitney told CNBC.

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Regional Bank Profits to Get Hit By New Regulations: Whitney

The United States would never deliberately weaken its currency to grow its economy, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC on Thursday.

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Geithner: US Won’t Seek to Weaken Dollar to Spur Growth

Gold is the “elephant in the room,” being used as an alternative monetary asset because of unease about strength of developed economies, World Bank Chief Robert Zoellick told CNBC.

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Zoellick Sees ‘Elephant,’ Not Endorsing Gold Standard

Rising inflation in emerging markets, coupled with marked increases in commodity prices, could hurt developed economies, as companies struggle to keep input costs down, analysts told CNBC.

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Risk of Inflation, Potential ‘Commodity Shock’: Analysts

The David Tepper Rally has not yet turned into Tepper Rout in the markets—the major indexes are holding about where they went immediately following his remarks on CNBC—but his “win-win” analysis is taking a drubbing.

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Is the ‘Tepper Rally’ for Real? Some Big-Name Critics Say No

Ninety percent of Americans are concerned about the economy, according to a new CNBC poll.

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Worried Americans Say Bush Tax Cuts Should Be Extended

The July rise in wheat prices, the fastest in 51 years, indicates that shortages in agriculture are coming, Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC.com Tuesday.

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Wheat Soars; Rogers Sees ‘Much Higher’ Food Prices

The pan-European stress tests on the banking sector were not tough enough to reflect future worsening conditions for the continent’s economy, Nouriel Roubini told CNBC.com.

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EU Stress Test Criteria Was Not Realistic, Roubini Says

Unemployment has shifted from a lagging indicator to a leading one and is warning government policymakers to confront problems in an economy mired in slow growth, Pimco co-CEO Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC.

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US Unemployment No Longer A Lagging Indicator: El-Erian