Top 5 Asian Companies To Own For 2014

European (SXXP) stocks advanced, as retailers and personal-goods makers rallied, before a report on American unemployment claims. U.S. index futures were little changed, while Asian shares rose.

Marks & Spencer Group Plc (MKS) climbed to a three-week high after posting sales growth that exceeded projections. Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. dropped 5.8 percent after a report that its chairman has threatened to quit. Evraz Plc (EVR), Russia�� biggest steelmaker, fell the most since November 2011 as it refrained from announcing a final dividend for 2012.

The Stoxx Europe 600 Index added 0.2 percent to 293.84 at 9:21 a.m. in London, for the longest winning streak since Jan. 4. Futures on the Standard & Poor�� 500 Index rose less than 0.1 percent. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index gained 1.5 percent to a 20- month high.

Top 5 Asian Companies To Own For 2014: Serial System Ltd (S69.SI)

Serial System Ltd distributes electronic and electrical components in the Asia Pacific region. The company offers electronic components and products to original equipment manufacturers and sub-contractors in various industries, as well as provides value added services, such as turnkey design, warehousing, and logistics support. It also offers design support, technology solutions and services, materials planning, and inventory management services. In addition, the company involves in the assembly, sterilization, and distribution of a medical device called heart-lung pack for use in relation to cardiopulmonary bypass procedures; research, production, marketing, and sale of fertilizers; provision of venue management, LED electronic lighting consultancy, and LED electronic component distribution services; and research, design, and development of integrated circuits and related electronic components. Further, it owns and sells media; and integrates interactive system and techno logy. The company serves consumer, telecommunication, industrial, automotive, medical, metering, security system, computing, lighting, energy, solar, and aerospace market segments in Taiwan, South Korea, Greater China, India, and south east Asia. Serial System Ltd was founded in 1988 and is based in Singapore.

Top 5 Asian Companies To Own For 2014: Blue Nile Inc.(NILE)

Blue Nile, Inc. operates as an online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry worldwide. Its fine jewelry selection includes diamond, gemstone, platinum, gold, pearl and sterling silver jewelry, and accessories, as well as wedding bands, earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets, and watches. Blue Nile, Inc. sells its products through the Web sites bluenile.com, bluenile.ca, and bluenile.co.uk. The company was formerly known as Internet Diamonds, Inc. and changed its name to Blue Nile, Inc. in November 1999. Blue Nile, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Top Cheap Companies To Invest In Right Now: Changfeng Energy Inc (CFY.V)

Changfeng Energy Inc. operates as a natural gas utility in the People's Republic of China. It designs, constructs, owns, and operates natural gas pipeline network for residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Sanya City, Hainan province, as well as in Xiangdong District, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province. The company has 30 years concession rights and 50 years operation rights to operate the natural gas distribution business. Its distribution network consists of 38 kilometers (km) of high-pressure gas pipelines; 26.6 km of high-to-medium pressure pipeline; approximately 122 km of medium to low pressure gas pipelines; and approximately 600 km of branch/customer pipelines, as well as includes 1 primary station, 2 gate processing stations, and 3 gas pressure regulating stations. The company also operates a compressed natural gas refueling retail station in Changsha City, Hunan Province. Changfeng Energy Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canad a.

Top 5 Asian Companies To Own For 2014: Archer Ltd (ARCHER)

Archer Ltd, formerly Seawell Limited is a Bermuda-based global oilfield service company. The Company provides drilling services, such as platform drilling, land drilling, modular rings, directional drilling, drill bits, tubular services, drilling and completion fluids, cementing tools, plugs and packers, underbalanced services, rentals and engineering. It specialises also in well services, such as wireline intervention, specialist intervention, frac valves, wireline logging, integrity diagnostics, imaging, production monitoring, coiled tubing, completion services and fishing. As of January 3, 2012, the Company's organizational structure centered on four geographic and strategic areas: North America (NAM), North Sea (NRS), Latin America (LAM) and Emerging Markets & Technologies (EMT). As of December 31, 2010, it was active through a number of subsidiaries, namely Seawell, Allis-Chalmers Energy, Gray Wireline, Rig Inspection Services and TecWel, among others.

Top 5 Asian Companies To Own For 2014: Preformed Line Products Company(PLPC)

Preformed Line Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures products and systems used in the construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks for the energy, telecommunication, cable operators, and information industries worldwide. The company offers formed wire and related hardware products to support, protect, terminate, and secure power conductor and communication cables and to control cable dynamics. These products also include hardware for supporting and protecting transmission conductors, spacers, spacer-dampers, stockbridge dampers, corona suppression devices, and various compression fittings for dead-end applications. It also provides protective closures, which include splice cases to protect fixed line communication networks, such as copper cable or fiber optic cable from moisture, environmental hazards, and other potential contaminants. In addition, the company offers data communication cabinets that are used in high -speed data systems to hold and protect electronic equipment; plastic products, including guy markers, tree guards, fiber optic cable markers, and pedestal markers to identify power conductors, communication cables, and guy wires; and other products, such as hardware assemblies, pole line hardware, resale products, underground connectors, solar hardware systems, and urethane products, which are used by energy, renewable energy, communications, cable, and special industries. Its customers include public and private energy utilities, communication companies, cable operators, financial institutions, governmental agencies, contractors and subcontractors, distributors, and value-added resellers. The company markets its products through direct sales force and manufacturing representatives. Preformed Line Products Company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio.