Coming off a year of big percentage gains, ETFs and their underlying indexes are seeking to keep the ball moving forward with a number of updates. Individual investors can get a good feel for what the experts are thinking from evaluating what companies they are choosing to add and remove from their indexes (ETFs are [...]
When people think of trains, they often picture an engineer shoveling coal into a burner, with black smoke billowing from a tall smokestack. But today’s trains are a far cry from the past. Railroad companies such as Norfolk Southern (NSC), CSX Corporation (CSX), Union Pacific (UNP) and Canadian National Railway (CNI) are poised to become [...]
The alternative fuel automobiles use electric motors for propulsion, instead of the internal combustion engine. All the major car companies have been jumping on the hybrid and electric car bandwagon, including Ford (F), General Motors, and Toyota (TM). But electric cars are not something new.
Electric automobiles were very common in Europe during the late [...]
Solar energy is basically energy from the sun. It is probably one of the oldest forms of energy utilized by civilization, as the Greeks and Chinese arranged their buildings toward the south to provide light and heat. Greenhouses are a great example, converting solar light to heat, which allows production of certain plants and crops [...]
There are many opportunities in green investing, and I believe those outweigh the risks. But investors also need to be aware of the potential pitfalls associated with their investments, especially in a volatile and evolving sector. The following are some of the risks involved with putting your money in the Eco sector:
1. Effects of a [...]
Approximately one in eight, or 884 million people lack access to safe water supplies, and less than 1% of the world’s fresh water (or about 0.007% of all water on earth) is readily accessible for direct human use.
The World Health Organization states that one fifth of the world’s population (more than 1.1 billion people) [...]
Oil is entering a seasonally bullish period that generally lasts from March to August. Natural gas on the other hand tends to trade in the opposite pattern, being weak during those months and stronger during the winter. Other possible areas of interest to investors such as coal and alternatives such as solar, wind and nuclear [...]