| | Weekly Roundup MARCH 01, 2013 MarketWatch's top 10 stories, Feb. 25 - March 1 By MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks ended a seesaw week higher, lifted to within a whisker of all-time highs as investors balanced relatively weak economic data from China and the euro zone with signs of economic strengthening in the U.S. Investors gave something of a giant, collective shrug about the federal spending cuts known as the sequester.Time will tell if investors remain so blasé about the cuts once they start to bite, but for now there's evidence that market participants are poised to drive the major U.S. indexes to records in the not-too-distant future.The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose 35.17 points or 0.3% on Friday to close at 14,089.66. For the week, the index rose 0.6%. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index(SPX) gained 3.52 points or 0.2% on the day to close at 1,518.20, a 0.2% gain for the week. The Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP) added 9.55 points or 0.3% on Friday to close at 3,169.74, a gain of 0.3% for the week.Check out MarketWatch over the weekend for all the news you need to organize your portfolio. You may also want to visit our new retirement section, which can give you the data, information and advice that's essential to planning your future.We'd also like you to take a few minutes to watch our Week Ahead videos. U.S. Week Ahead: Politics could stall highs Europe's Week Ahead: Will the ECB cut rates? — Christopher Noble , assistant managing editor.Fired Groupon Inc.'s (GRPN) founding chief executive, Andrew Mason, wasn't a cat with nine lives after all. He was fired on Thursday after the company reported another quarter of poor results. But the question that investors are asking now is whether Mason was really the biggest the problem company faces. Can Groupon fix its business model? Interest only Interest-only mortgages, in which borrowers pay interest but no principal during the first few years of the loan, are attracting buyers who like the lower monthly payments, even though the loans helped trigger the financial crisis. The return of interest only mortgages. WAH The move by Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), a pioneering company in a region famous for its laid back, employee-friendly corporate culture is viewed by many as a risky gamble at odds with Silicon Valley tradition. Yahoo's work-in-office move risky, but necessary. Bull Run The factors that contributed to gold's fifth straight monthly decline — central-bank monetary-policy cues, economic data, currency fluctuations, asset relocation, and emerging markets — are generally the same as they've been for gold's more-than-decade-long bull run. Gold's bull run not over, it's just taking a break. Pure stupidity Lawmakers in Washington have done what previously seemed unthinkable: They have allowed sequestration to mindlessly cut spending across the board rather than agree to a coherent deficit-reduction plan. Sequester risks U.S. security: Simpson, Bowles. Bull or bear Is it possible to find stocks that perform well in both up and down markets? You will need to think big and cheap according to Mark Hulbert. The search for this kind of holding is especially urgent now, as stocks flirt with record highs and worries of a new bear market grow, he said. Stocks that perform in bull and bear markets. Too big, too dangerous There's not much that the far left and the far right can agree on, but one thing Rex Nutting says both accept: The biggest banks are still too big and too dangerous. People in the middle agree that the largest banks are still too big to fail, that they receive an implicit subsidy from the taxpayers, and that they remain a threat to the global economy. Break up the too-big, too-dangerous banks. 'Greedometer' The higher the stock market goes, the more euphoric the cheerleading, the more the airheaded Gamma-class humans put on the happy face and hum their way to work, the more terrifying it becomes for anyone who actually bothers thinking. Danger as stock-market 'Greedometer' flashes red. Liquid gold By 2025, two-thirds of the world population will experience water stress, and for investors, that means opportunities. Think power generation, seawater desalination, water purification and industrial use. These treat water as a commodity, yes, but don't forget the pumps, valves, membranes, and electronics needed to move that liquid. Water scarcity could be liquid gold for investors. Subpar In his highly anticipated annual shareholder letter Friday, famed investor Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A) went straight to the bad news. Even though Berkshire achieved a $24.1 billion net gain for shareholders and a book value increase of 14.4% in 2012, he deemed it a "subpar" performance. Buffett says $24 billion gain wasn't good enough. 
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