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ThinkstockCanada-based fuel cell developer Ballard Power Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: BLDP) is getting a jolt on Friday after yesterday’s announcement that it had signed a non-bind agreement to develop...
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thinkstockIt seems hard to believe after years of decline, but bad news out of Greece has changed to “less-bad” and then to almost good news. We previously saw that the Greek budget may have a...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe craze behind Bitcoin has been monumental. Some might even call it silly. In some ways, Bitcoin is acting just like gold did, but on steroids. Investors and speculators wanting an...
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ThinkstockPetroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), commonly called Petrobras, announced on Friday that it is raising the prices it charges for gasoline and diesel fuel by 4% and 8%, respectively. This is...
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thinkstockShares of National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG) are chugging higher on Thursday. There has not been any direct news out of the company to account for the gain, but the national news in...
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ThinkstockLast Friday the Chinese government unveiled a 60-point reform plan designed to boost Chinese economic and social status to new levels. The agenda is an initiative to move China to a more...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe mystery behind Bitcoin is getting even more mysterious. The virtual currency keeps hitting new highs each day, and this is coming ahead of congressional hearings and regulatory...
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ThinkstockStandard & Poor’s Ratings Services has downgraded its sovereign credit ratings of France. The move was pushed out in the middle of the night in America, which is the morning hours in...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe world of Bitcoin and virtual currencies is a strange one. Imagine an open source currency with a digital life and no real nation behind it. Then imagine that the price of the...
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ThinkstockIf you thought that the Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) deal with Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ: VOD) was massive this year, there is talk that AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is now...
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ThinkstockPetroleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, is one of the more actively traded ADRs in the integrated oil and gas plays out there. It has many investors who have chased the prizes...
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ThinkstockMore than two years ago the Russian government announced that it would sell 20% to 25% of its state-owned diamond mining company, Alrosa, in an initial public offering (IPO). Originally the...
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ThinkstockYou would think that the auction of an oil field with as much as 15 billion barrels of oil in place would attract a lot of attention. Well it did attract some demonstrations against giving...
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ThinkstockFor many years Germany led the world in adding solar energy to its electricity generation capacity. The country’s goal was to deliver competitively priced energy to residents and...
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thinkstockAfter Russian potash producer Uralkali pulled out of the Belarusian Potash Co., a potash marketing group formed with Belarus’s Belaruskali, Belarus took the occasion to nab Uralkali’s...
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