06-10-2014, 12:07 AM
With solar FIT prices well below the retail price of power, regulators are worried that more customers will opt out of the grid and produce their own power. This would cut not only energy sales, but also tax payments and payment of the EEG surcharge.
Are the Legacy Costs of Germany’s Solar Feed-In Tariff Fixable? : Greentech Media
Growing up as a soccer fan in England, I've witnessed my fair share of horrors. I've seen shocking acts of violence, overheard hundreds of abusive chants and watched Pelé retire to sell erectile dysfunction pills. Over the years, I've been angered, saddened and ashamed by these things. But through it all, my love for soccer remained undimmed. But lately, I've discovered there's a new scourge on my beloved game that I simply cannot tolerate: Americans.
Why I Hate American Soccer Fans - WSJ
Summary UVXY would have provided substantial gains during the spikes in volatility in 2008 and 2011. Backwardation aided UVXY in both cases, particularly in 2008. With current market conditions, timing a falling VIX is less risky and a better strategy.
Salvatore Schillaci ended the 1990 World Cup as the most popular man in Italy. But he started it being attacked by 3,000 angry fans who trapped him in his car, spat at the windows and kicked the bodywork.
BBC Sport - World Cup Stories: When 'Toto' Schillaci's stare was the star
While we're likely to see PCs with wireless charging, wireless docking and wireless displays as early as 2016, the "no ports" thing could still be a ways off.
Intel: Where we're going, we don't need cables
That's why British company Isentropic is developing a system that could store energy in cells that are filled with gravel. Using Argon gas and a heat-exchange pump, the electrical energy from solar panels or wind turbines is used to warm the gravel. When the energy is required, the process is reversed, and the heat is used to drive an engine that creates power ready for the grid.
Plain old gravel could hold the key to greener power stations
But it is only when Bellis sees the pain in Cavendish's eyes that he realises something serious might be up. Bellis thinks he's in for minor surgery and will be cycling in Belgium next week. In fact he's been in a coma for a month and the doctors have already informed his parents his body is broken up and good for pretty much nothing.
BBC Sport - Jonny Bellis: Cycling's miracle man battles back from the brink
in many cases, the reason you can't get gigabit internet speeds—without the threat of that service being provided by a company that wants to discriminate against certain types of traffic—is because of the giant telecom businesses that want to kill net neutrality in the first place.
Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused | Motherboard
the authors observe that when asked why they were not borrowing more, even small businesses, the sector most dependent on banks, more often than not blamed a lack of customers rather than banks’ unwillingness to lend.
Lawrence Summers on ‘House of Debt’ - FT.com
As solutions to global poverty go, "just give poor people money" is pretty rock solid. A recent randomized trial found that Kenyans who received no-strings attached cash from the charity GiveDirectly built more assets, bought more goods, were less hungry, and were all-around happier than those who didn't get cash.
More evidence that giving poor people money is a great cure for poverty - Vox
Solar is happening right now because China needs Solar to be cheaper than coal in China. Pollution is terrible in China.
China Laughed When It Saw How Cheap Solar Could Be - Business Insider
So the Chinese leadership asked a question: “How much will it cost to make Solar Cheaper than Coal? This question has an answer. It turned out to be a dollar value China was willing to pay.
China Laughed When It Saw How Cheap Solar Could Be - Business Insider
But optimistic EU officials say the euro zone periphery will be its most dynamic region in the coming years, comparing it with the success of bitter IMF medicine in South Korea and Indonesia after Asia's financial crisis in the 1990s. Many economists doubt that, however. Pisani-Ferry, now head of the French government's policy planning unit, says the de-industrialization of southern Europe may be irreversible.
How The Eurozone Could Still Die - Business Insider
What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don’t have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.
The 'Circle Of Competence' Theory - Business Insider
What should short-sellers be looking for? Simple: secular decline shorts where there are accounting risks. Or competitive nightmare shorts where price-cutting is endemic, making the numbers too hard to make. Or stocks that are flying high, not low, even as the businesses aren't all that well rung, Think the bad retailers. Shorting when people are negative, shorting where everyone else is shorting, can lead to remarkably bad results. Shorts take much more homework than longs. Shorts must be discovered early. Shorts require persistence. But most importantly, shorts involve originality.
Jim Cramer: No Joy in Shortville - Pg.2 - TheStreet
The whole device weighs under ten grams, can fit in someone's pocket, requires no external power and takes standard microscope slides. Sliding and flexing the Foldscope's structure with thumb and fingers (see picture) lets the user move a slide around and then focus on the relevant bit of it. The Foldscope can be adapted, by fitting it with a more powerful LED, to project what it sees onto a screen, and the design can be modified to accommodate multiple lenses or filters. Dunk it in water, drop it or stamp on it (though not with a slide inside), and it will still work.
Yours To Cut And Keep - Business Insider
One look at our trading range screen of the 30 largest country ETFs tells you that world markets have gotten extended recently. As shown below, 22 of the 30 countries highlighted are now overbought (more than one standard deviation above their 50-days), and more than a handful are at extreme levels (more than two standard deviations above their 50-days). Some of the most overbought countries include China (FXI), France (EWQ), India (PIN), Japan (EWJ), Spain (EWP), and the US (SPY). Of the ETFs listed, India (PIN) is up the most so far this year with a gain of 24.17%.
Bespoke Investment Group - Think BIG - The World is Overbought
Low stock trading volume and volatility are messing with investors’ heads, fogging their view of the stock market. One analyst thinks these doldrums could turn out to be the new norm.
VIX at 2007 low is like sensory deprivation for stocks - Market Snapshot - MarketWatch
For the past five years, those who take a cautious stance on investing have paid close attention to a measure variously known as the “Cylically-Adjusted Price-to-Earnings Ratio” (or CAPE) or the “Shiller PE,” after Yale finance professor Robert Shiller. Using data going back to 1880, this measure has argued that U.S. stocks are becoming dangerously expensive by historic standards. But the strategy team at investment bank SG Securities is arguing that this conclusion may not be correct.
Why stock market bears may be making a big mistake - Brett Arends's ROI - MarketWatch
The Japanese government on Monday raised its economic growth reading for the first quarter, saying that capital spending was sharply higher than initially thought. Gross domestic product increased at an annualized rate of 6.7% in the January to March period from the previous quarter, the Cabinet Office said, revising its initial estimate of a 5.9% expansion. The result, adjusted for price changes, marked the sixth straight quarterly expansion.
Japan GDP revised higher on capital-spending surge - MarketWatch
After being knocked around by Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. for more than a decade, Sony Corp. (6758) is up against yet another tech rival, attempting to build the PlayStation 4 into an entertainment powerhouse and develop a virtual-reality headset for the gaming market.
Sony Takes On Facebook’s Oculus in Virtual Reality Race - Bloomberg
The world’s most efficient solar cells are twice as efficient as the ones people put on their roofs, but hardly anyone uses them because the semiconductor materials they’re made of are so expensive. That could be about to change.
High Efficiency Solar Cells for the Price of Conventional Ones | MIT Technology Review
We’re at one of those rare moments in market history when even the pundits are running out of things to say. The S&P500 (^GSPC) is at all-time highs. Momentum names are on-fire. The economic data is fine and all is right in the world.
Pundits baffled as market soars past target highs | Breakout - Yahoo Finance
According to Ari Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer & Co., there may be some near- and intermediate-term downside, though he doesn't recommend trying to time corrections. Instead, he sees five reasons to have a bullish long-term view on the S&P 500
We are about to enter the greatest bull market in 85 years | Talking Numbers - Yahoo Finance