Chinese solar manufacturer Trina Solar (NYSE:TSL) sold 4.5 million American depositary shares. The company nets $124 million ro reducing its debt and financing the expansion in the fast growing solartechnology market in China. Read more in Trina Solar nets $124M for debt, expansion (Cleantech Group). During the last trading days, the First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR)...
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The securities industry has created several interesting water ETFs for green investors, who are convinced that water will be one of the most important resources in the 21st century. People living in the developed countries too easily forget the fact that fresh water is a scarce resource that is needed for both agriculture and...
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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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Q-Cells (ETR:QCE) is a German company that develops and produces solar cells. Today the stock has lost already more than 11%, after the company announced it would likely post a loss for the second quarter.
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Solar Millennium AG (ETR:S2M) continues to rise. Today, at 12:15 CEST the stock is quoted at 24.80 €, +13.14% since yesterday and more than 55 % in a month. On July 8, 2009, the stock was quoted as low as 19.50 €.
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The German solar technology company Solar Millennium AG (ETR:S2M) will provide the technology for one of the biggest solar power plants worldwide. According to Reuters, the plant will be built by a consortium formed by RWE Innogy, Stadwerke Munich, plant builder MAN Ferrostaal, RheinEnergie of Cologne and Eerlangen-based Solar Millennium. Solar Millennium AG is...
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The German blog and news site Cleanthinking.de published a few days ago an interesting story about Solar Millenium (ETR:S2M) from Erlangen, Germany. The company is probably not as well known as First Solar (NYSE:FSLR) among green investors but this might soon change. Solar Millennium AG is one of the companies involved with the Desertec...
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Canaccord Adams analyst Jonathan Dorsheimer reduced the First Solar (NYSE:FSLR) rating from buy to hold after yesterday’s analyst meeting organized by the First Solar. Dorsheimer sees the price target still at $180. Consequently, the First Solars shares are sliding down fourty-five minutes after the opening of New York Stock Exchange (-2.5% at 10:18 AM)....
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Since last week, there is yet another interesting index to be followed as NASDAQ OMX has launched the NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index (QCRD). It is an equity index serving as a benchmark for stocks of companies that have a leading role in disclosing their carbon footprint, energy usage, water consumption, waste,...
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In the current economic climate, many investors are sceptical when it comes to investments in so-called green stocks. Shouldn’t we rather be buying blue chips instead of green chips? What are green stocks, anyway? Green Stocks Green stocks can broadly be defined as stocks of companies, that are involved in improving our environment. There...
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