Fatal fire in Tazreen factory which makes clothing for Walmart.  The disaster was the latest in a string of fatal fires in Bangladesh’s large garment manufacturing sector.  In December 2010, a wiring problem led to a fire in another clothes factory in the same industrial zone, leaving at least 25 people dead.  Article

Cerberus said in a statement Tuesday that it will abandon its investment in Freedom Group, which produces the Bushmaster line of firearms.  Adam Lanza is believed to have used a .223-caliber Bushmaster AR-15 rifle — the equivalent of the military’s M-16 weapon — in his assault on Sandy Hook Elementary School.  The real question in the US now is why the President does not sign an executive order making assault weapons illegal.  Pay people to return them.  Article

Bangalore: Women are always a bit different in nature from men. As an investor, men do their own research, consult few friends or a financial advisor and then step into the investment world. But for women it’s different…article

Big changes have taken place in the attitudes of Russian families toward finances over the last 15-20 years. Equal control of family budgets by both spouses has been gradually shifting in favor of control by one partner or the other. Who ends up in the role of household “finance minister” depends on a number of important factors…article

Women are gaining financial independence to an unprecedented degree — they now make up the majority of college graduates, are nearly half of the labour force and are becoming the primary earners in many households. Yet most remain uneasy or uninvolved when it comes to talking about and managing money...article

Abe promises monetary easing and big spending on public works.  Article