Hiring Picks Up in July, but Data Gives No Clear Signal In U.S., stronger hiring sets off a political tug-of-war Cover: Global Impact Of US Energy Boom US unemployment: Neither natural nor unnatural The rose-colored retirement dreams of the young Schwab Bond Insights: “Whatever It Takes” Power is essential for India’s long-term growth. But electricity …
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The STOXX® Europe 600 Utilities index is down over 3% YTD (in terms of price in Euros) and is off about 22% in the past 52 weeks. In the past five years the index is down about 50%. Comprising of 27 of the largest utilities in Europe, the performance of the index in the 5-year …
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The following chart shows the world’s largest markets for electricity: Click to enlarge The U.S. and China consume more than four times the power consumed by the next largest market of Japan. With has a population of about 1.1 billion India’s power generation capacity is much lower than that of China. Though Russia has a …
The never-ending European debt crisis has flared again in recent weeks with Spain taking the center stage this past week. While Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Greece were in the news in the past couple of years this is the first time Spain is becoming the focus of investors’ attention. U.S. equity markets have performed well …
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In an article last April I wrote that despite the events at the Fukushima, Japan “power generation from nuclear energy is set to rise in many countries.”. I came across an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal this week on this topic.From the article: Developing countries with an insatiable thirst for electricity are going …
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