Tom Konrad has published an interesting article about his favorite solar stocks to buy - if the prices come down to an acceptable level. His favorites are Solar Millennium AG, SatCon Technology, Power-One Inc., Sustainable Energy Technologies and Advanced Energy Industries.
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Too green investors miss some of the best opportunities, claims an article about Desertec solar project published in Seeking Alpha: Desertec Solar Project: Investors Can't Afford to Be Too Green if They Want to Make Money.
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The finance industry provides green investors with a wide sortiment of green ETFs (exchange traded funds). Today I will take a look at the Market Vectors Environmental Services ETF (NYSE:EVX). Market Vectors Environmental Services ETF seeks to replicate the performance of the NYSE Arca Environmental Services Indes (AXENV). The index includs companies that engage in business...
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Crude oil will collapse to $20 a barrel this year as the recession takes a deep toll on fuel demand, predicted Philip Verleger yesterday in an telephone interview to Bloomberg. According to the article written by Grant Smith, a crude oil surplus of 100 million barrels will accumulate by the end of the year. This would...
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The PowerShares Global Progressive Transportation Portfolio (PTRP) is an exchange traded fund (ETF) investing in companies believed to benefit substantially from a transition toward using cleaner, less costly and more efficient means of transportation. The fund seeks to replicate the performance of the Wilder NASDAQ OMX Global Energy Efficient Transport Index (HAUL). The companies...
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The German photovoltaic cell produces Q-Cell has reported “catastrophic” result for 2009Q2. The result might be indicative of the solar energy companies result in general as the analysts see no light for solar stocks in the near future. According to the analysts cited by the German business newspaper Handelsblatt, there is no reason to see any...
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Most investors – green investors and traditional investors alike – begin their investing career investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs). Unlike traditional mutual funds, the green ETFs are quoted on stock exchanges and sold and bought just like stocks. Furthermore, most of the green ETFs are passively administered which means their expense ratio is...
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