Analysts all keep optimistic when giving predictions about the stock market performance in 2013 after several years of staying gloomy.

 US authorities plan to announce a record $1.9 billion settlement with British bank HSBC to end allegations of money laundering, The Wall Street Journal reported on its website.

VietNamNet Bridge - Given that the bad debt situation in Vietnam is not considered as a "tragedy," foreign experts suggested the Vietnamese government to take rapid and drastic solutions to deal with it.