Alan Zafran, managing director at Luminous Capital and a member of the YPO Global One Chapter, speaks to Yahoo! Finance about the 1Q13 YPO Global Pulse results and how U.S. CEOs remain confident they can generate profits but reticent to hire or increase capital spending.

Raymond Tong, general manager of corporate development at China Resources Enterprise and a member of the YPO Pearl River Delta Chapter, shares the 1Q13 YPO Global Pulse results with CNBC Asia. The survey revealed Japan’s confidence was at its highest while optimism in China slipped.

Wojciech Borowski, a member of the YPO Poland Chapter and the CEO of Euro RSCG Poland, discusses the 1Q13 YPO Global Pulse results in Europe with TVN CNBC. Note: video is in Polish.

Alan Zafran, managing director at Luminous Capital and a member of the YPO Global One Chapter, writes a blog for cnbc.com about the 1Q13 YPO Global Pulse results and how the U.S economy is in a holding pattern.

Pashupati Advani, CEO of K U Advani PVT LTD and a member of the WPO Mumbai Chapter, speaks to CNBC-TV18 about the 1Q13 YPO Global Pulse results and how India’s level of confidence is on the rise.

Khutso Mampeule, chairman of Lefa Group Holdings and a member of the YPO Johannesburg, discusses the 1Q13 YPO Global Pulse results with CNBC Africa. In Africa, economic confidence remained largely unchanged after jumping more than 6 points last quarter.

Anastasios Economou, founder of iGroup and a member of the YPO Greater Europe Chapter, speaks with CNBC Europe’s Squawk Box about the 1Q13 YPO Global Pulse results and how sentiment in the core European countries are at their lowest level while the periphery countries are more optimistic.

Sunil Lalvani, group managing director at Global Products Group and a member of the YPO Russia and Emirates Chapters, speaks to CNBC’s Access: Middle East about how there is still room for improvement in the UAE despite its high ranking in the latest World Bank/IFC Doing Business report.