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Don’t look now, but the uranium sector is actually showing some signs of life. After going into a near free fall shortly following the catastrophic events in Japan, uranium prices have stabilized. Equities linked to the commodity have recently seen a push higher. Read more…
John Daly: Japan’s 11 March catastrophe at its six-reactor Daichi Fukushima nuclear power complex has had global repercussions, hardly surprising given the trillions of dollars invested in civilian nuclear energy over the last five decades. Ironically, just a year ago the nuclear power Read more…
David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, we can help select those ETFs that matter and may not be repetitive. The result is a more manageable list of issues from which to Read more…
Bob van der Valk: Where exactly does the official US policy stand on the building of additional nuclear power plants? It seems Nebraskans and New Mexicans have good reasons for heightened concerns on whether our government is telling the truth about the dangers from any damage caused Read more…John Daly: The year 2011 will go down for the nuclear industry worldwide as an annus horribilis.
First came the March Fukushima nuclear disaster, with operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) belatedly acknowledging that three of the facility’s six reactors did, in fact, suffer core meltdowns. Read more…
John Daly: What a difference a year and a tsunami make. Western investors have been salivating over the post-Soviet space’s energy riches since the 1991 collapse of communism. While focusing on the Caspian’s hydrocarbon reserves other mineralogical riches awaited development as well, none Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: A significant base may be forming in uranium stocks — seen in the Global X Uranium ETF (NYSE:URA) — as Japan’s troubled nuclear energy industry passed its first major vote since the Fukushima tragedy. Many of the stocks that make up this etf are down more than 40% Read more…
John Daly: It is becoming evident to many that the March nuclear catastrophe at Japan’s six reactor Daichi Fukushima complex has dealt a huge, possibly fatal, blow to the nuclear industry’s hopes of a revival. Read more…
Jeb Handwerger: Deutschland (NYSE:EWG) is taking the wrong road again. It is a decision that is political and irrational motivated in response to the Green Party. It makes one wonder what some politicians do to try to get elected. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Nuclear power was gaining a lot of momentum prior to the terrible disaster at Japan’s Fukushima powerplant in March. Read more…
Ian Wyatt: The fear around nuclear energy is palpable. The catastrophic events in Japan on March 11 have put a damper on the momentum of what was fast becoming a nuclear renaissance. For the Read more…
The ongoing tragedy of Japan’s Daichi Fukshima nuclear complex will prove to be a boon for renewable energy in Japan, and astute investors should begin carefully to follow Tokyo’s new Read more…
Jim Trippon: Very shortly after Japan’s Fukushima nuclear accident, Global Profits Alert issued an urgent warning. We advised our readers to dump all nuclear-related stocks, especially uranium. Read more…
New York-based asset manager Van Eck Global announced today that, effective May 1, 2011, expense caps were reduced on the following Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) in its Market Vectors family: Market Vectors Africa Index ETF (NYSE:AFK), Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF Read more…
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