Article by AlyssaMilano

In this period when people are so much enthusiastic to know the daily developments whether on social or political or business or cultural or other which happens in the world and both electronic and print media are ready with full energy to provide right and quick information to masses with great freedom. That is why today, media is a reliable source for news and thus more and more new news channels and journals are being started.

As electronic media is gaining lots of popularity to fast coverage of news, the relevance and importance of the textual contents is irreplaceable because of the feeling and sense one draw from textual content cannot be equated with electronic ones. But the question is on which newspaper you can really depend on for having true information? It is The Wall Street Journal and you can get all financial information from this honest newspaper.

Read the rest of this entry

Read the rest of this entry

Article by Daljeet Sidhu

The way forward lies in green investment. No, I’m not talking about dollars, though that too will follow inevitably. I’m talking about greening your small business. And the many successful entrepreneurs who have managed to build sustainable businesses without sacrificing ethics or the environment.

The Obama government has set apart billions of dollars to encourage green business ideas and initiatives. Various finance sources such as tax credits, loans and grants are available to fund green buildings and energy efficient ventures at national, state and local levels. Homeowners, businesses, non-profit organizations and government organizations can take advantage of these opportunities to convert their green ideas into action.

Read the rest of this entry

A huge chunk of Wells Fargo’s green investment in 2009 had been taken up by green building with 52 percent of the total and .25 billion in investment.

Second in Wells Fargo’s green investment was renewable energy with almost 30 percent or .85 billion.  This was followed by green business with 18 percent or .1 billion.

Wells Fargo had deployed over .85 billion of tax-equity capital to over 230 alternative energy projects in the US since December 2006.  These projects had produced more than 3,600 megawatts of electricity.

Read the rest of this entry

South Asia typically consists of Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, also includes Afghanistan, and Iran.The global economy has gone into recession with developed economies recording negative growth and substantial slowdown of emerging economies. The global trade is forecasted to decline by 7% in 2010, as more and more countries adopt import substitution and protectionist policies. Although the decline in international commodity prices have helped to curb domestic inflation and averted a supply side shock, the decline in demand for both export goods and private remittances has reduced foreign exchange inflows, the global economy is still witnessing mergers & acquisitions.
Bangladesh offers opportunities for foreign investors in important sectors, including power, steel, fertilizer, hotel, tourism, and petrochemicals. These opportunities are reflected in the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), which increased from virtually zero in the early 1980s to $760 million in FY2007. . To meet the challenge, market-oriented liberalizing policy reforms were initiated in the mid-1980s and were pursued much more vigorously in the 1990s. These reforms were particularly aimed at moving towards an open economic regime and integrating with the global economy . Bhutan, one of the world’s smallest and least developed, is based on agriculture and forestry, which provide the main livelihood for more than 60% of the population. Hydropower exports to India have boosted Bhutan’s GDP growth. Bhutan’s hydropower potential and its attraction for tourists are key resources. The Bhutanese Government has made some progress in expanding the nation’s productive base and improving social welfare. Sri Lanka, the region’s leading reformer of business regulations, made it easier to obtain credit by strengthening the legal rights of creditors and enhancing the availability of credit information.The structure of the Pakistan economy has changed from a mainly agricultural base to a strong service base. Agriculture now only accounts for roughly 20% of the GDP, while the service sector accounts for 53% of the GDP Significant foreign investments have been made in several areas including telecommunications, real estate and energy. Other important industries include apparel and textiles (accounting for nearly 60% of exports), food processing, chemicals manufacture, and the iron and steel industries.. Iran is a founding member of OPEC and the Organization of Gas Exporting Countries. Petroleum constitutes the bulk of Iran’s exports (80%), valued at $46.9 billion in 2006 Since the mid 90′s, Iran has increased its economic cooperation with other developing countries in “south-south integration” including Syria, India, China, South Africa, Cuba and Venezuela. Iran is expanding its trade ties with Turkey and Pakistan and shares with its partners the common objective for the creation of a single economic market in West and Central Asia.

BANGLADESH: BUSINESS OPPURTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Read the rest of this entry

Cathy Zoi, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, is in charge of selecting where to spend 16.8 billion dollars of ARRA, stimulus. Her husband, Robin Roy is the Vice President over Projects & Policy at Serious Materials and they both have stock in that company, which thanks to our tax dollars is now booming. Serious Materials received an undisclosed amount of the ARRA money, the only window company that got any attention from the EERE. They also got Biden and Obama to say they had “the most energy efficient windows in the world”. This company has since changed every ad about them to include ‘green’ technology. This company is no different than Anderson windows and they say on their site they are 2.5x the energy star rating, later they start saying they are 4x the energy star rating. They have yet to provide any facts to these claims that their windows are so much different from everybody else’s.

Is this corruption at it’s best or what? The Democrats in power now are hand picking their winners, anybody who supported them during the elections, which surprisingly, Serious Material was a contributor.

Read the rest of this entry

And use them to fund some gov’t pet project.

From her Question on the main page – “Hillary Clinton is planning to use excess oil company profits to invest in alternative energy.”

With any good business that is to be profitable and successful, any increase in opperational costs is passed on to the consumer as an increase in price. It’s a “Business”, not a “Charity”. If they add more taxes to the oil industry, it will simply trickle back down to the consumers and the American taxpayer will be funding the “Alternative Energy Investments“.

“We will make it absolutely clear” that oil companies who simply boost gas-pump prices to offset the tax will be prosecuted, State Administration Secretary Mike Morgan told legislators who opened their review of Doyle’s 2007-’09 budget.”

Read the rest of this entry

Do you think that because of the high price of gas, will make stock prices grow of companies that are investing in renewable energies

I want to find out about companies leading the fight against global warming. I’ve found a few overseas companies (like Norway’s REC); but I want stocks of domestic companies. I’ve tried a couple screeners but it doesn’t seem like the “category” is even recognized yet. Any help will be appreciated.