The deal being worked out over eastern Ukraine sounds like the 1937 Munich capitulation and unlike the British rush to defend Polish borders 75 years ago in Sept. 1939—right down to the presence of a supposed outsider in the deal (Hitler in 1937; Putin in 2014.)

We spent the Labor Day weekend in Cleveland which is exactly the same distance from Washington, DC, as Moscow is from the nearest Ukrainian border.

Mexico's Senate has passed the reform of its energy and power sectors which will be open to private and foreign investment for the first time in nearly 80 years. Here are 3 stocks which will benefit... Plus more from Ireland, Switzerland, France, Canada, Britain, Jordan, Russia, Israel & Norway.

We do not recommend positions in the USA, where most of the creativity is allegedly taking place. I doubt that the time to switch has come.

The ballots being delivered to the few polling places that were open in Donetsk seem to have been pre-marked. They showed an X on the words "tak" and "da", yes in Ukrainian and Russian respectively. Plus more global financial news updates.