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Two Stocks for Our Energy Future

March 7, 2011
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When I wrote about e-readers last week, I mentioned how much I love to read. And just this week I finished a book about living off the grid. I’m not planning to abandon my city-supplied electricity, sewer services or water any time soon, but I wanted to learn more about this counter-culture, especially as oil prices rise daily. The author of the book, Off the Grid, Nick Rosen, was clearly in favor of off the grid lifestyles and in fact was conducting a search across the U.S. for the perfect off the grid location while writing the book. So...

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A Stock Poised to Boom Under Korea’s Green Plan

February 22, 2011
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This small stock is a play on a key driver to the worldwide boom in Green energy I haven’t yet addressed. And it is perhaps the most important one to politicians: energy security. For one, it’s getting harder to find oil—it was reported this week the world’s largest oil company, ExxonMobil (XOM), has found only 95 barrels of oil to replace every 100 barrels it sold in the past decade. That’s a problem, since it means there’s less oil around. Secondly, world demand for oil is booming, thanks to China, India, Indonesia and nearly every other nation. Demand is...

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Ramifications of Obama’s Clean Energy Apollo Program

February 21, 2011
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I recently paid my electric bill and was putting the inserts into the recycling bin when I saw one detailing where all my electricity comes from. I was surprised to see that my utility, National Grid, sources 74% of my electricity from what I’d term Green resources: 34% natural gas (considered transitionally Green because it burns cleaner than oil and coal), 27% nuclear, 6% trash-to-energy, 3% large hydroelectric, 3% biomass and 1% wind. Another 12% was imported power, almost certainly hydropower from Quebec (which, if true, would bring the Green energy total to 86%), while 9% was coal and...

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Stock Market Analysis Video: It’s a Bull Market

February 18, 2011
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Stock Market Analysis Video: It’s a Bull Market

In this week’s Stock Market Analysis Video, Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report Editor Paul Goodwin says this is undoubtedly a bull market. There will be a correction at some point, but no one knows when that will occur, so just take what the market gives you. Stocks discussed are Google (GOOG), Mechel OAO (MTL), LDK Solar (LDK), Capstone Turbine Corp (CPST) and NetApp (NTAP). Click below to watch the video.

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The Next Cisco

February 14, 2011
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Cisco (CSCO) was one of the greatest investments of the 1990s, surging from a low of eight cents (adjusted for many splits) at the start of 1990 to a high of 82 in 2000. If you’d been lucky enough and courageous enough to enjoy the whole ride, you could have turned $10,000 into more than $10 million. Of course, at the start of 1990, few investors knew about Cisco. But even if you’d waited until the start of 1995, when Cisco was very well known, you still could have done very well, turning $10,000 into more than $440,000 …...

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