• Update: Week Ending March 15, 2014

  By Nasser Khraishi : The confusion has cleared this week. It is clear that the geopolitical issues we have been discussing for at least a couple of weeks have finally sunk in this last week. Crimea, Arab Gulf states, China-Japan, China-Philippines, Venezuela, and North Africa should have been enough…

• Risk Aware Investing, Part 1: Dividend ETFs

  By Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ): Risk awareness is an important part of investing. It's no less critical today than in other times. With low US interest rates, rather full valuation of US stocks, China potentially facing a round of insolvencies, and Russian action in the Ukraine, thinking about…

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• 5 Undervalued Companies For The Defensive Investor - March 2014

  By ModernGraham approach . This is a sample of one screen that is included in ModernGraham Stocks & Screens, our monthly publication. Defensive Investors are defined as investors who are not able or willing to do substantial research into individual investments, and therefore need to select only…

• Growth in compensation for U.S. CEOs may have slowed

  BOSTON (Reuters) - Big U.S. companies appear to have handed out smaller increases in compensation to their chief executives in 2013 than in 2012, mainly as a result of reduced grants of stock options, according to an early review of annual regulatory filings.

• As giant U.S. IPO nears, Alibaba's China e-commerce crown slips

  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Alibaba's dominance of online retail in China faces its biggest-ever challenge as the firm founded by Jack Ma in a one-room apartment 15 years ago lines up a U.S. initial public offering that could value the firm at around $140 billion.

• Shares hit as Crimea vote to spur sanctions against Moscow

  TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares hovered around one-month lows on Monday as Western countries issued fresh warnings of more sanctions on Moscow after Crimea voted overwhelmingly to break from Ukraine to join Russia, as expected.

• DBS buys SocGen's Asia private bank units

  Deal worth $200m by southeast Asia's biggest bank is the latest illustration of Singapore-based lenders' push into wealth management

• Russian Aggression In The Crimea And Ukraine May Give Gold And Natural Gas A Boost

  By Michael Blair : Tensions in the Ukraine and in the Crimea are coming to a head. Today's vote by people living in the Crimea to join Russia passed by a landslide and the Russians are reportedly moving troops into parts of the Ukraine. Annexation of the Crimea and ultimately the Ukraine is a…

• Twitter's Costolo in China fact-finding visit

  Dick Costolo is embarking on a trip to learn more about the Chinese technology sector even as the US messaging platform remains blocked from operating in the country

• Market Outlook - Time For Bulls To Be Skeptical

  By Price Headley : After five weeks of bullishness that took stocks to record highs, it didn't come as a complete surprise to see the market take a modest tumble last week. All told, the S&P 500 (SPX) ( SPY ) slipped 1.9% over the course of last week, breaking back under a key line in the…

• Damage control at Pimco after Gross, El-Erian clash

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - In mid-February, a group of current and former Pimco employees were invited to a private farewell party for Mohamed El-Erian on March 10, to mark his impending departure as chief executive of the world's largest bond fund.