Posts Tagged ‘ solar ’

China’s solar industry: a fine state of affairs

2011 was a rough year for China’s solar power manufacturing industry and has been seen to come home to roost in the recent round of 4th quarter result announcements. Gerry O’Kane has been sifting the figures and looking at developments in the solar market to asses their prospects. March saw a flurry of news...

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Burma’s intriguing power game beckons clean biz investors

Follow the Money CleanBiz.Asia, January 13th, 2012 Gerry O’Kane There is an intriguing fight developing between clean and renewable business and non-green industries in Burma. In a very public announcement – to reporters in Rangoon – the minister for electricity Khin Maung Soe halted the construction of a Thai-backed coal-fired power station. It comes...

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Sino-US wind subsidy agreement gets off to a rocky start

Sino-US wind subsidy agreement gets off to a rocky start

CleanBiz Asia, Sunday, June 19th, 2011 It has only taken a week for a Chinese enterprise and government body to breach the new Sino-US agreement to stop subsidies to China’s wind power firms. The China Ming Yang Wind Power Group has announced that it has entered into a “strategic framework co-operation agreement” with the...

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China’s green energy policies under attack – the politics

Asian Correspondent, Sep 14, 2010 One piece of news that hasn’t made much of an impact in Asia yet has been the re-emergence of the steelworkers in American politics. And why should it? Well because, last week the United Steelworkers Union alleged that China has been illegally helping its companies take dominant market share...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

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Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

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Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they...

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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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Gerry O’Kane looks at growth in e-FX throughout the Middle Eastern markets and how resistance to electronic systems is changing rapidly in the fast...

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Timing: – just how important is it for achieving currency alpha?

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Currency Investor, Winter 2010 Within the equities world there has been some discussion over whether market timing is a viable investment strategy or simply...

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