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Alternative Energy Stocks: NGK turns a profit on wind power
My primary weather experience was in a windswept place, where even calm days had an intermittent 30 mph “breeze.â€
And maybe that’s why I can’t get excited about storage for wind-turbine energy. The idea that the wind might stop blowing for an extended period of time and you may need to rely on stored power, while evident to me on a daily (or at least weekly) basis out here on the East Coast, is antithetical to deep-seated instinct.
Despite my insistent, if illogical, argument against the idea, I am assured by those in the business that, yes, wind turbines do sometimes stop…
12Apr2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | Comments Off | Continued2008 Beijing Olympics: This stock to get the gold
With the 2008 Beijing Olympics approaching, many travel-related stocks have been predicted to benefit. One of the most promising is the leading Chinese online travel service provider, Ctrip.
Like U.S.-based Expedia, Ctrip allows online users to book hotel accommodations, airline tickets, packaged tours and car rentals – you can even hire a car with a chauffeur through their website.
This company captured almost 50% of its market share in China in 2007.
Bright future for this online travel service
With an estimated compounded growth rate of 43% through 2010 and an annual profit margin of over 33%, Ctrip is looking fundamentally sound.
Just recently,…
7Apr2008 | Laura Cadden | 1 comment | ContinuedProfiting from Oil Stocks: Apache (APA:NYSE) is on a roll!
Back on June 26, 2006, I recommended that my readers invest in a little-known domestic oil stock. Back then it traded for $63.76.
Nine months after Hurricane Katrina had devastated New Orleans and four months after the tealeaf readers of the National Weather Service had predicted a cascade of deadly hurricanes to turn Texas and Louisiana into swampland, Apache Corporation (APA:NYSE) had just done something that seemed like pure foolishness to the talking heads in the media: Bought out other energy companies’ natural gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Natural gas was at a low, and oil wasn’t going anywherere. Deutsche…
9Mar2008 | J. Christoph Amberger | Comments Off | ContinuedJanuary Market Crash — This was just a prelude to the Global Crisis of 2009
A couple of days ago, Asian and European stock markets experienced their biggest multi-day declines since April 1990. Tokyo, Bombay, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, London… all lost five, seven, even 8% and billions of dollars in valuation within a few hours of trading.
Pundits were quick to attribute the drops to recession fears — not just for the U.S. but for the global economy.
The declines prompted helter-skelter reaction from the Fed, with a whopper of a rate cut. Which in turn hit the dollar hard and sent gold back up.
Now, here is a question: Over the past year, central bankers, newsletter editors…
30Jan2008 | J. Christoph Amberger | Comments Off | ContinuedRecession: Not Gonna Happen
I could not have said it better myself:
“I think this recession mumbo jumbo is way out of line. It is being pushed on the radio and TV, but out in the real world we are not seeing it.”
I heard that line as I was chatting with the owner of a tourism company. The president of a publicly traded company uttered it as he called the man I was speaking with to cancel his $60,000 employee-incentive vacation. He said he just got done laying off scores of workers and his shareholders would hang him if he took the trip.
Once I found…
27Jan2008 | Guest Contributor | Comments Off | ContinuedThe Recession Answer: Trickle down or trickle up
After more than eighteen months of doomsday predictions, the nation is just now getting around to planning for a recession. Some say it is too late. Others believe there are still hopes of eliminating a debilitating downward spiral.
On Thursday, our nation’s elected officials conducted a conference call and gathered around a virtual table to discuss the options. When it comes to keeping a multi-trillion dollar economy out of the hopper, the choices are often painful and limited.
Fed Chief Bernanke wants immediate relief. He wants cash in the hands of American consumers fast. An economy filled with cash-heavy consumers is…
18Jan2008 | Anonymous | Comments Off | Continued
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