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Alternative Energy sources

Solar Stock Rally Nears 2007-2008 Craze: Time for a Reality Check?

Posted: May 21, 2013 at 11:20 am

The solar stocks are back on fire. The problem is that this feels a lot like 2008, without the super-high share prices making it feel like another 1999 dot-com bubble ...
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global economy

UBS Offers Global Dividend Ruler Stocks to Buy: Total, Teva, TD and More

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 8:35 am

Total return is always the name of the game when it comes to investing success. Stocks that pay dividends on a regular basis help smooth out the rough spots when ...
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Solar rooftop installation

SunPower: The Hot Solar Energy Stock

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 2:52 pm

There hasn’t been a lot of good news in the solar energy business for the past couple of years, but SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) has really turned it around since ...
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Money, US, $100 bills

UBS Has Top Dividend Ruler Stocks from Around the World (AZN, TOT, INTC, BNS, NU, SNY, OXY, UPS, JNJ, CLX)

Posted: April 9, 2013 at 8:40 am

Investors love dividends, and this component of investing plays a very important part of the total return through time. Buying stocks that combine solid and growing dividends with a potential ...
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Oil refinery

Goldman Tells Europe Refiners to Cut Production

Posted: March 21, 2013 at 1:17 pm

From 2007 to 2012, imports of crude oil to the northeastern U.S. have fallen from around 1.5 million barrels a day to 870,000 barrels according to the U.S. Energy Information ...
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Bull and Bear figures

24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 13, 2013: Markets Get No Direction Today (CLWR, GE, GRPN, CLF, PM, RATE, BWLD, CLWR, RAX, CMCSA, DF, DE, TOT, AMAT, CAR, CTL, CSCO, CLD, IPI, KGC, MET, NTAP, PXD, TRIP, Z, ANR, ABX, DTV, PEP, RSOL, BBRY, PPHM)

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 4:06 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a closely watched report on U.S. retail sales came in about as expected (more coverage here). U.S. business inventories rose less than ...
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Oil pumpjack

Total’s Profits Bolstered by Refining

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 7:55 am

Total S.A. (NYSE: TOT) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. For the quarter, the French oil giant posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of ...
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Bull and Bear figures

24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 12, 2013: Markets Close Mixed in Another Yawner (CHK, FB, LVS, RGLD, DD, LGF, AVP, CPLA, FOSL, HERO, LVLT, KORS, RAI, KO, MHP, TRP, RATE, BWLD, CLWR, RAX, CMCSA, DF, DE, TOT, ZNGA, LDK)

Posted: February 12, 2013 at 4:03 pm

U.S. equity markets opened about flat this morning on another day devoid of significant data releases. In Asia, markets in China and Hong Kong remain closed for the holiday, but ...
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Money, US, $100 bills

Big Dividend Yields from UBS Dividend Ruler Stock List (UBS, AZN, TOT, INTC, BTI, RTN, TD, NU, UL, NEE, JNJ)

Posted: February 12, 2013 at 8:50 am

S&P 500 dividend growth continues to outpace earnings growth, a trend that likely will continue for a few more years. Low yields on fixed income alternatives and historically low dividend ...
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World currency

Venezuelan Currency Devaluation Hits Consumer Goods, Oil

Posted: February 11, 2013 at 1:06 pm

The effects of last week’s surprise devaluation of Venezuela’s currency are already hitting some U.S. firms. Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) said this morning that it will take a $120 million ...
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oil pipeline

Kinder Morgan to Expand Pipeline from Alberta

Posted: January 10, 2013 at 4:31 pm

Pipeline master limited partnership Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMP) announced this afternoon that it will update the scope of its expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline system that ...
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Bull and Bear figures

24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 10, 2013: Markets Open Higher, Inch Up Before Closing (BA, MGM, MSFT, MO, LULU, RT, TXI, SVU, SNX, WFC, NOK, MCP, CHK, TOT, HLF)

Posted: January 10, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning even though the number of new U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected before markets opened (more coverage here). The news ...
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Drilling rig

Total Cuts Natural Gas Investments, Chesapeake Shares Hit

Posted: January 10, 2013 at 11:27 am

In January 2010, France’s supermajor oil & gas company Total SA (NYSE: TOT) paid about $2.25 billion for a 25% stake in the Barnett shale leases owned by Chesapeake Energy ...
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Solar Farm Desert

Buffett Buys Another Solar Project

Posted: January 2, 2013 at 2:29 pm

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) subsidiary MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. has acquired the 579-megawatt Antelope Valley solar projects from SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) for a total price of ...
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Alternative Energy sources

Alternative Energy and Cleantech Picks and Pans for 2013

Posted: December 11, 2012 at 8:02 am

The alternative energy sector is supposed to be one of the great winners of the 2012 election outcome. After all, an Obama victory would indicate further government support for what ...
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