Posts related to ‘Japan earthquake’

Japan Needs Reconstruction to Maintain GDP

Posted: November 14, 2011 at 6:10 am

Japan’s GDP grew at 1.5% in the quarter that ended in September. It is an impressive figure and one that shows the Asia nation’s economy has rebounded faster than expected. ...
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GM Makes Cuts: What Is “Nonessential” Spending?

Posted: March 20, 2011 at 8:44 pm

GM (NYSE: GM) management informed the company's workers this weekend that it would cut all "nonessential" costs because of parts shortages which are a result of the Japanese earthquake. GM ...
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US Companies That Will Replace Japan’s Nuclear Generation Shortfall (BTU, ACI, ANR, CNX, XOM, CVX, COP, CHK)

Posted: March 17, 2011 at 1:11 pm

Japanese officials have confirmed 4,340 dead and 9,083 still missing as a result of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country a week ago, according to London's Daily Mail ...
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What Does France Do About Nuclear Power?

Posted: March 17, 2011 at 6:09 am

France gets almost 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. It is also the world's largest net exporter of electric power with Italy, the UK, Belgium, and Germany as its ...
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Imminent Change in Japan’s Fuel Sources for Electricity

Posted: March 16, 2011 at 1:17 pm

As of March 15th, Japan had shut down more than 12,000 megawatts of nuclear electricity generation, mostly because of the effects of last week's earthquake and tsunami. Nearly 11,000 megawatts ...
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Japan’s New Car Market Could Hit the Skids (TM, HMC, NSANY)

Posted: March 16, 2011 at 11:47 am

The impact and aftermath of the Japanese earthquake on the US car market has been speculated about and analyzed pretty carefully in the past few days. As the second largest ...
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Fukushima Reactors Same Age, Design as Vermont Yankee (ETR, GE)

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm

It's no surprise that the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power generating site is causing a re-thinking of global nuclear policy. It is not even surprising that it took a ...
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Analyst Calls Fight Over Oil Stocks (XOM, OXY, DVN, MUR, CVX)

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 10:14 am

There are several research upgrades and downgrades this morning that may feel meaningless in the overall scheme of things due to the international headlines coming from Japan and the Middle ...
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Rebuilding For The 1,000 Year Disaster

Posted: March 15, 2011 at 5:23 am

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan have already raised the question of whether reactors should be built to handle 9.0 scale earthquakes and whether sea walls which cover 40% of ...
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Japan’s Disaster Kills Nuclear Ambitions, Boost for Nat-Gas (BHP, RIO, CCJ, DNN, UEC, USU, URRE, URG, URZ, URA, GE, SHAW, XOM, CVX, RDS-A)

Posted: March 14, 2011 at 10:15 am

Following the disaster in Japan, and particularly the explosions in one one of the country's 53 nuclear power generating reactors, the reactions of other nations with nuclear power plants either ...
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