Month: September 2011

Earth Island Institute Honors North America’s Top Young Green Leaders with the Brower Youth Award

September 27, 2011 0

Earth Island Institute Honors North America’s Top Young Green Leaders with the Brower Youth Award PR Newswire SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO , Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Who’s responsible for some of America’s most creative environmental victories, such as building the largest urban farm in post- Katrina New Orleans , creating sustainable investments through surfing, and even greening the Girl Scouts? […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

P-Solve Completes Insurance Consultancy Purchase in UK

September 27, 2011 0

P-Solve Completes Insurance Consultancy Purchase in UK – Acquisition forms a new business in the group: P-Solve Meridian – Creates entity with $33bn under advice and $9bn under management from more than 180 clients – Strengthens liability-focused investment and data analytics capabilities for a wider range of clients PR Newswire BOSTON, Sept. 27, 2011 BOSTON , Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Investment consultant and asset manager P-Solve has completed its purchase of long-established insurance consultancy Meridian. […]

Stock Analysts

EA Set to Launch Star Wars (ATVI) (ERTS)

September 27, 2011 0

Video game developer and publisher, Electronic Arts Inc. ( ERTS ), popularly known as EA, recently announced that the highly anticipated massively multi-player online (MMO) game Star Wars: The Old Republic will be released worldwide in December 2011. […]

Stock Analysts

Exxon Silvertip Wins Regulatory Nod (COP) (DVN) (XOM)

September 27, 2011 0

ExxonMobil Corporation ’s ( XOM ) plan to restart its Silvertip oil pipeline has received approval from the US Department of Transportation (DoT). Operations in the Silvertip pipeline running between Laurel and Billings, Montana were closed after it spilled about 1,000 barrels of crude oil into the Yellowstone River near Billings. A new channel has been drilled to substitute a quarter of a mile segment of the 12 inch pipeline about 60 feet to 70 feet below the riverbed. […]

Economic Data

A European TARP Fund? – Ahead of Wall Street (GS) (JBL) (PAYX) (WAG)

September 27, 2011 0

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

 Renewed optimism about Europe’s ability to get a grip on its financial situation pushed stocks higher on Monday. And short of an outright ugly consumer confidence reading from the Conference Board that comes out after the market opens, we may actually get another positive day in the market.

 So what’s behind this new bout of optimism about Europe? After all, we have had many Europe-inspired rallies in the past that were based on little more than temporary fixes and band-aid solutions. Is it any different this time around? The newest European plan may in the end come to nothing, but it does have a number of useful components that have to form part of a viable solution […]

Economic Data

Sep 27: A European TARP Fund? – Economic Highlights

September 27, 2011 0

Renewed optimism about Europe’s ability to get a grip on its financial situation pushed stocks higher on Monday. And short of an outright ugly consumer confidence reading from the Conference Board that comes out after the market opens, we may actually get another positive day in the market.

 So what’s behind this new bout of optimism about Europe? After all, we have had many Europe-inspired rallies in the past that were based on little more than temporary fixes and band-aid solutions. […]

Stock Analysts

Canadian Solar’s French Connection (CSIQ) (STP)

September 27, 2011 0

Canadian Solar Inc. ( CSIQ ) has supplied a total of 21,560 solar modules to EOSOL Energies Nouvelles' new ground-mounted solar plant with an installed capacity of 5.1 megawatt (MW). On an area of 89,300 square meter, EOSOL Energies Nouvelles' new power plant known as "Le Petit Chataignier" has been built in La Genetouze in the south west of France. […]

Stock Analysts

DPL Shareholders Cheer AES Merger (AES) (DPL)

September 27, 2011 0

DPL Inc. ( DPL ) announced that its shareholders have voted in favor of the proposal to adopt the agreement and plan of merger with The AES Corporation ( AES ). Earlier, in April 2011, the companies announced that AES will acquire DPL in a transaction valued at $4.7 billion. […]

Stock Analysts

A European TARP Fund? (GS) (JBL) (PAYX) (WAG)

September 27, 2011 0

Renewed optimism about Europe’s ability to get a grip on its financial situation pushed stocks higher on Monday. And short of an outright ugly consumer confidence reading from the Conference Board that comes out after the market opens, we may actually get another positive day in the market. […]