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Europe: +44 (0) 207 198 1634 Equities and the Economy Santa’s workshop was in full swing yesterday bringing a nice rally on the first day of Christmas week. The Dow was up and down all day and a one point trading marginally negative but in the last hour posted a strong rally ending the day up 123 points, 0.72%, at 17,252. […]
One of the fastest growing but barely covered areas in the sports industry is facility operators’ gradual movement from old fashion metal halide lighting to state-of-the-art LED (Light Emitting Diode) lighting. It was once believed that lighting large venues with LED was an impossibility. In 2015, an estimated 90% of facility operators who installed a […]
Equities and the Economy Last Friday was, unfortunately, just a bad a day as last Thursday. The Dow closed down an ugly and material 2.10%, 367 points, at 17,129, the S&P 500 lost 36 points, 1.76%, to 2,006 and the Nasdaq fell an even 80 points, 1.59%, ending at 4,923. Friday was the Dow’s worst […]
Equities and the Economy The rally is in full force however yesterday it wasn’t Santa Clause who brought the present, but it is someone with white hair: Janet Yellen. And the present was the strangest form, an interest rate hike. So how can this be?! Especially when the Fed said the hike was a tentative […]
Wind generation in November blew through a 31-month-old record share of total energy in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, a new report shows, and an expert said it contributed to ERCOT’s low on-peak power prices that month. Wind farms supplied 18.4% of the independent system operator’s total load in November, compared with October’s 12.3%, […]
Equities and the Economy U.S. stocks rallied sharply yesterday marking a second day of gains with the Dow jumping 157 points, 0.90%, to 17,525, the S&P 500 adding 21, 1.04%, to 2,043 and the Nasdaq climbing 43, 0.86%, to 4,995 (still under that 5,000 level). Some folks are stating because oil prices rose, and WTI […]
LE BOURGET, France — With the sudden bang of a gavel Saturday night, representatives of 195 nations reached a landmark accord that will, for the first time, commit nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off the most drastic effects of climate change. The deal, which was met with an […]
Equities and the Economy U.S. equities began the day flat to down but ended on a nice bounce. The Dow closed 104 points higher, 0.6%, at 17,369, the S&P 500 added 10, .048%, to 2,022 and the Nasdaq gained 19, 0.38%, at 4,952. The intraday price action was good being we bounced back from being […]
Equities and the Economy There was no Blog on Friday but I mentioned Thursday morning that based upon Wednesday’s close that both short and long term support lines had been broken basis the S&P 500. I also mentioned that this alone was not enough to force a capitulation but investors’ fingers would be on the […]
Solar farms in California. California’s “million solar roof” program mirrored Germany’s “hundred-thousand solar roof” initiative that began a few years ago. Credit Monica Almeida/The New York Times PARIS — One is a European country known as “the powerhouse of Europe” that struggles against soggy winters and seemingly endless gray skies. The other is a digitally […]
