Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:31pm EST (Reuters) – New York City’s pension funds should boost investment in local transportation, power and communications projects to create badly needed new jobs, the city’s Public Advocate Bill de Blasio recommended on Tuesday. “We are leaving resources on the table that we should be putting to work right here [...]
Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company’s economic output. That’s because earnings are very often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to manipulation based on dubious judgment calls. Earnings’ unreliability is one of the reasons Foolish investors often [...]
Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company’s economic output. That’s because earnings are very often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to manipulation based on dubious judgment calls. Earnings’ unreliability is one of the reasons Foolish investors often [...]
LEAWOOD, Kan., Feb 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Tortoise Capital Resources Corp. /quotes/zigman/452040/quotes/nls/tto TTO +3.98% today announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended [...]
BY AARON BACK Chinese companies more than doubled their investment in European firms last year, according to a new study, a welcome development for Continental policy makers looking for new sources of capital and growth. China’s total overseas direct investment slipped in 2011 from a year earlier, and investment in the U.S. fell sharply, but [...]
Lucky Australia is blessed not only with an abundance of recoverable minerals, but also with respectable quantities of the world’s major fossil fuels – coal, oil, and gas. Coal, although abundant in Australia and in other parts of the world, is definitely a fuel of the past. Regardless of whether you believe in global warming [...]
NEWARK, N.J., Feb 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Prudential Investments [...]
February 13, 2012, 3:57 AM EST By Karl Lester M. Yap (Updates with stocks in sixth paragraph.) Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — The Philippines is considering tightening rules, cutting tax breaks and reviewing resource contracts in what could be the biggest revamp in its mining policy since a 2004 court ruling supporting foreign investment. President Benigno [...]
Last month, I told you that China went on a resource-buying spree of massive proportions… In an effort to stave off a severe shortage of electrical power, two Chinese national companies went after giant uranium deposits in Africa… helping to kick off a stealth bull market in one of the world’s most hated resources: uranium. [...]
The two greatest challenges facing investors in the often hard life of African resource mining remain as transport and power, delegates at the Investing in African Mining Indaba said this week. Investors and small miners are finding themselves increasingly in an unsparing world where hard decisions are being forced on them; investors need to have [...]