While US company brass get early experience in massaging news, this is not instinctive among foreign companies with American Depositary Receipts listed in this country.

Russian tanks, planes, and troops are reportedly crossing the border with eastern Ukraine after the referendum there which violated the terms of the truce between Ukraine and Russia.

Festivities for the 25th anniversary of “Die Wallfall”, the fall of the Berlin Wall between the old Communist East Germany and the rest of the world were rather subdued because the now free German railroad workers went on strike. Strikes were illegal in the old German “Workers' Paradise”.

Arvy and I have discovered other hacking horrors and security lapses at HSBC. Here is an example of how careless my bank has been.

On a day when 76 million USERS were revealed to have had their accounts hacked at JP Morgan Chase. Another 7 million businesses were hacked, among them apparently myself. Plus more stock news from Canada, Bermuda, China, Dubai, Switzerland, Jordan, Portugal, Brazil

The Jewish new year got off to a rotten start, hit by the “bend it like Apple” risk of another bad launch. It was also hurt by some BASH: the arrest of Vladimir Yevtushenko who runs Bashneft and other firms in Russia and the rise of the BASH “shellshock” virus which hits Apple computers.