• Bank Of America: A Well Positioned Stock

  By Blackstone Equity Research : A stream of events is coming our way this month that can impact the financial sector especially the banks. First of all an anticipated rise in interest rates can act as a catalyst. Other than this, on March 20 the bank is expecting results for the Dodd/Frank stress…

• China property firms' shares fall

  Shares in various Chinese property firms decline after media reports that Chinese developer Zhejiang Xingrun Real Estate cannot repay $400m of outstanding loans.

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• Cash boost for free childcare scheme

  As many as 1.9 million working families could get a new tax-free childcare allowance of up to £2,000 by 2015-6, ministers say.

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• Sainsbury underlines supermarkets' challenge

  Justin King, outgoing chief executive, says market is growing at slowest rate since 2005, as retailer reports first quarterly sales fall for nine years

• A Few Solid Reasons Why EMC Should Be In Your Portfolio

  By Renu Singh : Cloud solutions provider EMC has started the year on the front foot with shares already up close to 10%. EMC's shares have spiked in the last couple of months after the company posted robust fourth-quarter results and reported growth across all its segments. Also, EMC's…

• SanDisk: Undervalued And Benefiting From Changing Preferences

  By Bottom Up Investing: SanDisk Corporation ( SNDK ) reported strong 2013 results that were driven by sales of its embedded and SSD offerings. Revenue increased 22% in 2013 and is forecasted to increase 13.5% in 2014. The cost structure continued to improve on technological advancements as well as…

• Consumers may get lower energy bills

  Consumers could be spared further rises in energy bills, if the chancellor freezes his controversial carbon tax in Wednesday's Budget.

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• Sainsbury's reports fall in sales

  Sainsbury's reports its first fall in sales for nine years, and says the market is growing at its slowest rate since 2005.

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• The Wooden Case For Weyerhaeuser

  By Blue Jay Research : If you owned Weyerhaeuser ( WY ) stock at the end of the housing bubble, you had a rough ride. The stock, which was as high as $86 per share in early 2007, fell more than 80% to a mere $16 by July 2010. The stock now sits at $29, still well below previous highs. But the same…

• Intel: Justifying A $33 Price Target

  By Ashraf Eassa : I've been doing quite a lot of work in trying to figure out exactly how Intel ( INTC ) is going get out of its PC-decline rut, and it seems that Intel can essentially stabilize its client MPU revenues by simply growing extremely quickly in the tablet market. While, of course,…

• Unity's new weapon for devs: Porting games to Firefox

  Following news from Epic that the Unreal Engine 4 will be optimized for Firefox, Mozilla and Unity reveal a browser add-on for bringing Unity-built games to the Web with asm.js and WebGL.

• Putin approves draft bill to annex Crimea

  Moscow recognises breakaway state, a move that threatens to escalate the crisis in Ukraine after Sunday's overwhelming vote and US and EU sanctions

• Asian shares rise as Crimea tensions ease, Fed in focus

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares rose on Tuesday and the yen remained well off recent highs as the threat of immediate military conflict in Ukraine receded, though investors remained cautious ahead of this week's U.S. Federal Reserve policy meeting.

• China FDI data indicates sharp slowdown in February

  BEIJING (Reuters) - China drew $19.3 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first two months of 2014, up 10.4 percent from a year earlier, the Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday, indicating a sharp slowdown in February due to the Lunar New Year holidays.

• GE's credit card business faces two federal investigations

  (Reuters) - Federal regulators are conducting two investigations into General Electric Co's credit card business for potential violations of consumer finance laws, according to a regulatory filing related to the unit's planned initial public offering.

• General Electric: Intrinsic Value Approximately $36 Per Share?

  By Achilles Research : General Electric ( GE ) continues to be one of my favorite long-term investments in the industrial sector. General Electric is a true American icon: The industrial conglomerate was founded more than 120 years ago and its businesses offer everything from aviation systems to…