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Market brief for Friday, March 14, 2014

The world-

     A Maylasia Airways plane has been missing for days only hours away from a full seven days still without a trace, the Indian Ocean recently again pointed at as a potential debris field or attempted landing location.

     The Ukraine sounds like a warzone in the making with russian troops amassing and the annexation of Crimea a reported desire.

Business-

     The Dow closed at 16,065.67 today, it is an industrial average looked at curiously by many and a famed name known to a majority of us by the time we were out of elementary school, the first six years out of pre-school and kindergarten.

      Mergers and acquisitions, range trading, and copper as market drivers were the suugested food for thought in nyse.com’s top story section on their home page.  Safeway Inc. is in the process of accepting a $9.4 billion aquiring transaction from Cerberus Capital Management for the second largest U.S. grocery store operators.  And, the world’s new leading banana and fresh produce company was announced in a stock for stock transaction by Chiquita Brand and Fyffes of Dublin annual revenue $4.6 billion.  Men’s Warehouse is almost in a completed deal to aquire Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. for $1.8 billion, this will make them the fourth largest apparel retailers in the U.S..