• 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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• Caremark And Walgreen - 2 Worthy Investments

  By Alpha Strategist : CVS Caremark Corporation ( CVS ) is the largest pharmacy in the US based on total prescription revenues. With over 7,600 pharmacies and retail stores and over 800 MinuteClinic® locations, it has reach to most of the US population. With 63 million plan members CVS has a huge…

• Costco: 6 Different Insiders Have Sold Shares This Month

  By Markus Aarnio : Costco Wholesale Corporation ( COST ) is engaged in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Australia, and through majority-owned subsidiaries in Taiwan and Korea. (click to enlarge) Insider…

• Broadbent becomes deputy BoE governor

  Ben Broadbent will step up from being an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee to the deputy governor for Monetary Policy from the beginning of July

• Alibaba to hold U.S. IPO kick off meeting on March 25: sources

  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will hold the kickoff meeting for its planned U.S. initial public offering on March 25, setting in motion the most high-profile listing since Facebook Inc's offering nearly two years ago, sources familiar with the plans…

• Sanderson Farms: High Quality, Undervalued And Trending Upwards

  By James Brooks : Sanderson Farms ( SAFM ) is an integrated poultry processing company that produces, processes, markets and distributes fresh, frozen and prepared chicken products. For FY13, 50.5% of revenue was derived from fresh bulk pack, 34.4% from chill pack, 10.5% from frozen and 1% from the…

• Expansion plans hit Asos shares

  Shares in online fashion retailer Asos fall by more than 16% after it says expansion plans will hit profit margins.

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• Vanguard Natural Resources: Dividend Hikes Are Always Welcomed

  By Albert Alfonso: Vanguard Natural Resources ( VNR ) has always been one of my more stable income stocks. The company is a natural gas focused upstream MLP with a knack for acquiring mature, low decline, production, oftentimes at a discount. Vanguard then hedges nearly all of the expected…

• 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 2015-16.

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• Resolution's continental drift

  Irrepressible entrepreneur Clive Cowdery is looking to emulate his UK success in Europe, even if formidable regulatory hurdles must be cleared

• London Market Report

  Shares in Cairn Energy sink 7% after the oil explorer says it is suspending its share buy-back programme until an Indian tax dispute is resolved.

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• Polypipe and SafeCharge join IPO hopefuls

  Share offerings by plumbing company and software firm add to the strongest start for floats on the London Stock Exchange since 2007

• China dismisses Uighur link to missing jet

  Background checks on the 154 Chinese citizens on board the missing airliner have not turned up any evidence of involvement in a hijack attempt

• International Monetary Fund: Inflation Danger Is Why Europe Not Out Of Woods Yet

  By MetalMiner : by Stuart Burns An improvement in growth for the European Union and a renewed willingness to buy government debt in the distressed periphery has us clapping our hands in admiration at the turnaround the region has achieved in just the last 12 to 18 months. The rot was stopped in…

• Alibaba IPO: More Hype Due To Yahoo, Not As Viable Sourcing Platform?

  By MetalMiner : by Taras Berezowsky When I began researching a post a couple years ago about beer and brewing equipment , I distinctly remember my first Google search. I remember that it began and ended with Alibaba. What I don't remember is exactly which search term or terms I entered…

• Stress Testing And Interest Rate Risk Models: A Multi-Factor Stress Testing Example

  By Donald van Deventer : Author's introductory note: Under regulations of the Bank for International Settlements and various national regulators, such as the Federal Reserve, major banks are required to use multi-factor interest rate models to assess their own safety and soundness. Investors…

• Asos tumbles on trading disappointment

  Fashion retailer forecasts profitability below expectations amid higher costs for international expansion and currency headwinds in Russia and Australia

• European shares dip with investors wary of Ukraine, Fed

  LONDON (Reuters) - European shares dipped and the safe-haven yen rose as investors kept a wary eye on the standoff over Crimea and a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting starting later on Tuesday.

• Groceries Are A Rotten Business

  By Charles Lewis Sizemore : Supermarket giants Albertsons and Safeway ( SWY ) made news last week by agreeing to merge, creating a combined company that will fall just shy of Kroger ( KR ) in terms of store count. Cerberus Capital, the private equity firm that owns Albertsons, has offered to pay $40…

• Putin directs Russia to sign Crimea treaty

  President Vladimir Putin has advised Russia's legislatures and government to move forward with a treaty incorporating Crimea into Russia