Today on World Market Watch Kingsley Jones, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Jevons Global in Sydney discusses:

- Japanese stocks and whether exports will start to lift

- Australian woes and impact of the recent budget

- likelihood of global harmonisation on corporate taxes

- how corporations could react to changes in the tax landscape

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 Lee Cheng Hooi, Head of Retail research at Maybank Investment Bank talks about where the KLCI is headed since it closed near its all-time high yesterday, and it's Wesak this Friday and school holidays next week. He tells us why he is still keen on these three stocks, though they've hit 52-week highs: Plenitude, Wing Tai and QL Resources. 

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We look at MRCB's 1651CS warrant and UMW's 4588CP warrant in this week's episode of Warrants Wednesday. 

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On World Market Watch today we have Dr. Michael A. Yoshikami, Founder and CEO of Destination Wealth Management in San Francisco, California

He discusses:

-- Concerns that markets are overextended and due for an imminent pullback, given the stock market’s string of record highs

-- If fundamentals have kept up with the market rally

-- Goldman Sachs raising its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 1,750

-- The report card for Q1 earnings season

-- Apple and the allegations it is using tax havens to avoid paying taxes

-- Why China is no longer the home for low-cost production and what it means for those with China investments

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Benny Lee, Chief Market Strategist at Jupiter Securities talks about: 

- KLCI patterns this week

- Gabungan AQRS' chart, as it plans to buy back up to 10% of its own shares

- fresh themes - construction/Iskandar, oil & gas and Penang property have been peddled for awhile

- positioning before/after results season

- 2nd liner plays

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On World Market Watch today Joe Quinlan, MD and Chief Market Strategist at US Trust-Bank of America Private Wealth Management in New York discusses:

- what corporates will do with cash piles

- improved Q2 earnings results?

- moving from government bonds to equities

- more than just cheap money driving prices

- bar-belled investments to protect investors

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Harvard University Professor Dwight Perkins discusses China's slowing economy and what it means for Malaysia. Issues brought up include: 

- criticism that China's economy relies too heavily on unsustainable investment

- domestic consumption as a share of GDP

- income gap between urbanites and rural folk

- impact on pattern of investment demand in East Asia

- impact on Malaysia

Previous positions at Harvard include Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, Associate Director of the East Asian (now Fairbank) Research Center, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development. Perkins has authored, coauthored, or edited 20 books and numerous articles on economic history and economic development, with special references to the economies of East and Southeast Asia.

He has served as an advisor or consultant to the governments of Korea, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. He has also been a long-term consultant to the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and various U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. 

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PK Basu, Regional Head of Economics and Research at Maybank Kim Eng, talks about: 

- Thailand's q1 GDP surprised on the downside, coming in at 5.3% vs consensus 6%, on the back of lower exports- rate cut soon?

- Shinzo Abe's three arrows on target?

- Rate expectations for BOJ target rate n external trade numbers

- upcoming details for Singapore Q1GDP. IP and inflation data for April will be out on the same day too.

BFM's Khoo Hsien Chun speaks with him. 

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On World Market Watch today we have Dodge O. Dorland, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Landor & Fuest Capital Managers in New York

He discusses:

-- The continued upward momentum of equities, with both the Dow and the S&P 500 hitting fresh highs and posting four straight weeks of gains

-- Concerns of a pullback in equity markets

-- Technical levels to watch

-- The Federal Reserve's communication this week

-- What the Fed can do to avoid a sell-off in equity markets when they finally do scale down QE

-- Macro indicators of the strength of the US economy

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