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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.

Asian stocks drifted Monday as investors largely shrugged off a weekend vote in which Crimeans opted to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

Back in 2007, when I visited India for the first time, I had the privilege of meeting some of the brightest and most talented minds in the fields of science and technology.

There's nothing worse than telling someone with good intentions about saving that their handful of hard-earned money is too puny to interest you.

Investors will be keeping a close tab on Ukraine and China this week before turning their attention to the Federal Reserve.

Abu Dhabi and the central bank of the United Arab Emirates have agreed to refinance $20 billion of debt that was extended to the Dubai government as emergency aid during its financial crisis and comes due this year, the state news agency said on Sunday.

The Toronto stock market could find itself under further selling pressure this week as traders weigh the outcome of a controversial weekend referendum in Ukraine's Crimea territory and growth prospects in China.

Faced with tepid response from banks to push consumer price inflation-linked bonds in the retail market, the Reserve Bank of India has now announced additional incentive to the banks.

This week's Barron's has a great interview with Jeremy Grantham, the veteran fund manager at the top of GMO.

The six highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are Fusion-IO , Akamai , Workday and VM Ware .

A strong stock market, low interest rates and confidence in the ability of innovative tech companies to generate revenue are stoking the market for initial public offerings for tech companies.

U.S. government bonds held at the Federal Reserve for foreign central banks and other overseas investors plunged by a record $104.5 billion in the latest week, a drop that rattled some investors and sparked speculation about who might be doing the selling or transferring.

After swinging between modest gains and losses Friday, stocks ended the week in negative territory.

Trader Steven Kaplan works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday. The U.S. stock market was down Friday, a day after suffering its biggest decline in six weeks.

The Fed released an annual audit of its financial operations for 2013, conducted by the giant accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP.

In this Wednesday, March 12, 2014, photo, traders Jeffrey Vazquez, left, and James Denaro work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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Russian stock indexes plunged to the lowest levels since 2009 on Friday, two days before a referendum in Crimea that is expected to provoke western sanctions against Russia.

Gold is back on the rise after dropping like lead last year. Although it has recovered just a portion of its steep loss from 2013, the shift in momentum has been enough to halt the stampede of investors from gold-related funds.

Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Friday on lingering concerns about weakness in the Chinese economy and tensions in Ukraine.