May 2010
May 7, 2010
We all know what happened in Spain in 2008.Due to extremely generous feed in tariffs for solar , installers went on a spree installing 2.5 GW […]
May 7, 2010
One of the biggest causalities of The Greek crisis has been the world IPO market.Number of companies all over the world are deferring their IPOs seeing […]
May 7, 2010
IMS has released the top 10 suppliers of solar panels for 2008-2009.What is striking about the the rankings is that the Chinese solar companies have improved […]
May 7, 2010
India has very low exposure to the current European debt crisis. The reasons for that are: India’s export to GDP ratio is much lower than that […]
May 7, 2010
The rush to safe haven assets today was frightening to say the least.As I write this VIX went up by more than 50% while Yen is […]
May 7, 2010
Markets are dropping like a rock. Went down more than 4% in less than a minute.Seemed like that the whole financial system was unravelling. The European […]
May 6, 2010
Nokia’s trajectory has been going downhill from the peak reached when Motorola nearly self destructed. Now it looks that Nokia is following the same path as […]
May 6, 2010
While Indian Stock Markets have progressed a lot in terms of disclosure and regulation with market regulator SEBI introducing numerous reforms in the last decade or […]
May 6, 2010
Recent newsflow from China suggest that the country’s real estate market is poised for a sharp slowdown and the heavily controlled financial sector is sitting on […]
May 6, 2010
The growth in income disparity around the world is striking.The internationalization of capital and trade has led to increasing amounts of income for the top percentiles […]
May 6, 2010
The Indian stock market has been hit with low quality offerings over the recent past with improvement in the general market conditions.I was wondering whether the […]
May 5, 2010
As I was writing in my earlier post , consolidation in the technology market is creating Technology Behemoths competing in large parts of the technology spectrum.Microsoft […]
May 5, 2010
Here are some thoughts from the Pictet Clean Energy Fund reported on Bloomberg Pictet Clean Energy Fund Finds Value in Cree’s LEDs – Businessweek Ask Pictet […]
May 5, 2010
The politicians keep saying that the sovereign debt fears related to their country are a complete hogwash but these fears keep coming true with nasty regularity.Dubai’s […]
May 5, 2010
The Junk Indian IPO market is not having too much success.Most of the low quality IPOs are managing to scrape through at just over one time […]
May 5, 2010
What is Green Investing? Green Investing has become quite prominent these days because of the concerns with climate change,energy security,peak oil and the deleterious effect of […]
May 4, 2010
Apple,Google,Microsoft and Amazon which earlier used to compete in separate technology segments are now competing head to head with each other in Smartphones,Digital Ebooks,SAAS,Music Players etc. […]
May 4, 2010
For the last few days the Shanghai and Southern European markets of Spain,Greece and Portugal have been falling despite higher US stock indices.This is a bit […]
May 4, 2010
EPIA joined the bandwagon of analysts and research firms predicting a large increase in global solar installations in 2010. Solar demand growth will be be >50% […]
May 4, 2010
Greece agreed on a plan with EU-IMF which requires sharp spending cuts and tax increases on Sunday to get their hands of more than 100 billion […]
May 4, 2010
If I was a Google investor I would be alarmed by Google’s investment in a wind farm project.The $39 million investment though small is not what […]
May 3, 2010
SJVN was a single decent offering amongst the the junk IPOs that have been flooding the Indian IPO market . Read my earlier analysis of the […]
May 3, 2010
Large multilateral developmental institutions are boosting adoption of solar energy through large scaling funding efforts.European Investment Bank recently announced more than Euro 500 million in financing […]
May 3, 2010
BP is finally waking up from its stupor and looking for help on stopping the oil spilling for its rig in the Gulf of Mexico. While […]
May 3, 2010
Sanyo plans to invest more than 70% of its total investment over the next 3 years in its renewable energy and energy storage segments.Sanyo has never […]
May 3, 2010
USA is taking tentative steps towards offshore wind sector by approving a 468 MW wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts.The approval which has come after […]
May 2, 2010
German Economy Minister and Free Democrat Party Leader ( FDP is one of the junior partners in the ruling coalition and stands for its pro-business liberal […]
May 2, 2010
As has been the fashion since the financial crisis began with Bear Sterns, bailouts are worked out during the weekends ,the Greece one also was no […]
May 2, 2010
President Obama will pay a visit on Sunday to the scene of the one of biggest oil spills to strike US coastal waters. This visit will […]
May 1, 2010
Ontario,Canada has a 60% “local content” requirement for renewable energy installed in the province.This is illegal according to WTO but unless someone challenges it in the […]