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Russell Gold's interview with Shell CEO, Jack Voser. Voser describes his perspective on the global oil situation in the next three decades with a doubling of demand in 40 years, a third of which would come from renewables and 10% from nuclear, the rest from fossil fuels. Natural gas plays a large role in Shell's future strategies. Voser sees the potential of China's shale gas supplies being larger than the U.S., with clearer energy policies than the U.S. The cost of producing China's shale gas will be higher because of complex geology. He sees the potential for the reindustrializing of the U.S. midwest with the abundant shale gas supplies, bringing back jobs that were exported to other countries. Clear standards and regulations are needed to make investments. He thinks it will be very unusual if the U.S. did not grasp this opportunity. Shell's operations generate $470 billion in revenues and its capital budget for 2012 was $32 billion, providing enormous scale and requiring careful planning for long term projects in Australia, Africa, Canada and the Middle East....

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Jack Ma tells employees in an email: "At 48, I am no longer 'young' for the internet business. The next generation of Alibaba people are beter equipped to manage an internet ecosystem like ours. I believe they understand the future better than I do." Ma plans to give up the CEO role May 10, 2013, and let other managers inside the company run Alibaba. Alibaba runs the Taobao and Tmall shopping sites. Recent investments by Alibaba have focussed on improving its logistics system. Management changes include improving efficiency and giving more independence to managers to run their units.

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Yuka Hayashi's interview with Gen. Shigeru Iwasaki, Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Japan's Self Defence Forces. Iwasaki says Japan will improve its defense capabilities in the southwestern part of Japan and protect Japanese airspace. Japan will increase defense spending under the government of LDP leader Shinzo Abe.

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Sonia Sontamayor, the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice, was raised by Puerto Rican immigrants in a housing project in the South Bronx. Here she shares with Jess Bravin her early struggles, and her insecurities, including a variation of the "impostor-syndrome." She hopes by that sharing her story she will achieve a deeper relationship with colleagues on the Supreme Court.

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Matthew Kaminski's interview with Marco Rubio, Republican Senator from Florida. Rubio outlines his proposal for immigration reform in the U.S.

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Krugman describes the break with orthodox economic policy of the Shinzo Abe government in Japan, and says this is working.

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Mayer points to Greece as an example of higher returns even with economic turmoil. Banks in the U.S. also performed well even with economic uncertainty and other problems, says Mayer. Price paid is a more important factor than the economy, as a low P/E ratio and good management in a rebounding industry provides better returns.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor describes her life long struggle with diabetes and living in a Spanish enclave in South Bronx project housing with high alcoholism and drug use in the neighborhood. Both her parents were from Puerto Rico and her mother was a nurse. Her personal memoir is called "My Beloved World," is intended to give hope to other children struggling in similiar circumstances.

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The Italian government sold 5 billion euros of three year bonds in Jan 2013 at an interest rate of 1.85%, the lowest since 2010. This is a remarkable change from 2012.