Archive | July, 2010
South Africa’s 2020 vision
By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of FNB. Are we ready to join the big time and host the 2020 Olympic Games? We certainly seem to have the money (!), organizational talent (!) and chutzpah (jiddish for cheek) to do so with great success. But would we have the collective will to do so? There are [...]
Continue reading...Highest rates with a Higher Deposit
31 July 2010 – 11:18 pm PST
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As investors you always have the right to look for a higher return on your investment. So why not look for a higher Jumbo CD rates. Jumbo Cds are accounts that require large sums of investment by the prospective investors. Jumbo Cds are a specific kind of savings account where the amount of minimum deposit [...]
Continue reading...AIMCo Sees Returns Rebound in 2009-2010
31 July 2010 – 4:10 pm PST
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Last Saturday, Lisa Schmidt of the Calgary Herald reported that AIMCo sees returns rebound: The province’s investment manager has won back significant ground over the past year, its chief executive said Thursday, following tough losses in 2008. Alberta Investment Management Corp., known as AIMCo, said overall returns are running in the range of about 17 [...]
Continue reading...SPX 30m
31 July 2010 – 4:06 pm PST
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Just something to look at since you have nothing else to do on a Saturday night. Pink bot is divergence from the 10 yr treasury. The MACD is in knots. RSI5 is cycling like a Whirlpool. Other indicators are climbing or mixed. I like the wedge still, but the triangle overthrow is on it’s last [...]
Continue reading...Crude Oil Weekly Technical Outlook For Saturday July 31st
31 July 2010 – 12:35 pm PST
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Crude oil edged higher to 79.69 initially last week but retreated sharply. Nevertheless, the retreat was contained at 75.90 and rebounded. Near term outlook is mixed and we’ll stay neutral first. on the upside, break of 79.69 will indicate that whole rebound from 64.23 is still in progress for 61.8% projection of 64.23 to 79.38 [...]
Continue reading...High-Frequency Programmers Unhappy Making 6-Figures; Investors Punish Corporate Expansion Plans; Chinese Bank Turmoil; India Develops $35 laptop
31 July 2010 – 12:00 pm PST
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Here is some weekend potpourri to ponder, covering a wide variety of global economic topics. India’s $35 Laptops India develops world’s cheapest “laptop” at $35 India has come up with the world’s cheapest “laptop,” a touch-screen computing device that costs $35. India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled the low-cost computing device [...]
Continue reading...Lithium Stocks Directory for Investors following Mining Stocks and Green Stocks
31 July 2010 – 10:50 am PST
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Lithium Stocks Directory for Investors following Mining Stocks and Green Stocks Searching for “clean and secure supply of lithium to power the lithium ion batteries for electric cars of the futureâ€- Seifi Ghasemi, Chairman and CEO of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC) (Investorideas.com Mining Stocks Newswire) Investor Ideas and its leading mining and green investor [...]
Continue reading...Uhde Gasification Selected for Commercial Biomass-to-Methanol Plant in Sweden
31 July 2010 – 8:45 am PST
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VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass-to-methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel-grade methanol from forest-residue biomass. Investment for the plant will be about SEK 3 billion (US$416 million). The VärmlandsMetanol plant will be the first full-scale commercial [...]
Continue reading...Chris Hayes, guest hosting the Rachel Maddow Show, covers the failure of HAMP.
31 July 2010 – 8:15 am PST
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Fantastic job and much appreciated thanks to Chris Hayes and the Rachel Maddow Show team for covering the failure of the HAMP program. He opens with MSNBC news clips from 2007 talking about the foreclosure crisis that was coming, and notes how even though the crisis is far worse in 2010 the mainstream media coverage [...]
Continue reading...Quallion Supplied Li-ion Battery for X-51A WaveRider Scramjet Flight
31 July 2010 – 7:15 am PST
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Quallion LLC, a developer of customized lithium-ion batteries, modules and packs for medical, military, aerospace, and vehicle applications (earlier post), supplied the Li-ion battery pack for the first flight of the hypersonic X-51A WaveRider ScramJet Demonstrator Program. Quallion X-51A Lithium-Ion Battery. Click to enlarge. Quallion developed a high discharge rate 3.3Ah pouch cell for the X-51. [...]
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31 July 2010 – 11:30 pm PST
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