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Cooling towers at the Temelin nuclear plant in the Czech Republic.
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Nuclear: The power investment of 2008
By BARBARA WALL
With Britain joining the growing list of countries supporting nuclear power to meet growing energy needs, analysts are sizing up a wide range of investment opportunities.
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2 CENTS' WORTH SocGen: When risk management fell asleep at the switch
By JIM PETERSON
Enough is knowable about what happened to suggest that Inspector Clouseau was seconded to the hapless bank, writes Jim Peterson.
The death of the 'decoupling' theory?
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
The decline of world stocks this week in reaction to U.S. problems calls into question whether markets really are insulated from one another's bad news.
Not your grandmother's utility stocks
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Formerly prized by conservative investors for their dividend yields, utility stocks now promise capital gains as well because their prices have risen so sharply.
STRATEGIES Two cheers for stocks
By MARK HULBERT
Investor sentiment suggests that the bulk of the stock market's decline is behind us. That view is based on an analysis of two very different groups: newsletter editors corporate insiders.
How low can bank shares go?
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
The pounding reflects not only losses just recorded but also those widely believed to be on the way.
Taking the macro view of microeconomics
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Whether or not the United States slips into recession - and takes other economies with it - investors need to prepare for a future of slower growth, economists and investment strategists agree.
A not-so-festive 4th quarter for funds
By BARBARA WALL
Hopes for a festive rally in the fourth quarter of 2007 were thwarted as major equity indexes continued mostly flat into the New Year.
INVESTING Investing: The (new) case for gold
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Gold prices usually rise in troubled times, but the recent run-up to more than $900 an ounce is being driven more by new sources of demand than by market turmoil.
Waste management: An old "green" investment is newly hot
By HOLLY HUBBARD PRESTON
The focus of the industry is shifting from toting and hauling garbage to treating and reclaiming valuable resources.
U.S. colleges take student debt out of the financial aid equation
By LINDA K. WERTHEIMER / The Boston Globe
Moves by Harvard and other elite U.S. universities to replace student loans with grants are increasing pressure on less-affluent colleges to come up with new strategies.
BOOK REPORT "Hedge Hunters," by Katherine Burton
By IEWED BY CHRIS NICHOLSON
Eighteen of the secretive hedge fund industry's top performers are incisively profiled by a longtime reporter for Bloomberg News.
INVESTING Factoring in $100 oil
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
The best guess of analysts studied by Thomson Financial is that earnings for U.S. energy companies grew by just 6 percent last year.
INVESTING Shopping the seasonal sell-off
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Shareholders often sell off their poor performers at year-end to reduce tax gains, writes Conrad de Aenlle - and that can create opportunity for bargain hunters.
Retailing stocks: Bargain-basement time
By CONRAD DE AENLLE
Retailers in many countries are nervous about slow consumer spending, and so are investors. But analysts think some stocks have been unfairly oversold.
INVESTING: Investing: Is Nintendo the gift that keeps on giving?
The IHT's 11th annual round table on global investing
BOOK REPORT: 'Through the Labyrinth,' by Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli
INVESTING: Investing: Tracking the rich when times are tough
Middle East rising: The Gulf branches out
INVESTING: Investing
Consolidation is key in the tricky sector of wine-related investing
Confessions of a drug rep with an M.D. in the drug-marketing juggernaut
INVESTING: Investing: Can Boeing continue to ride the wind?
Infrastructure: Big projects create a small fortune
INVESTING: Investing: Europe reaps benefits of emerging-market growth
BALANCE SHEET: Saying the unthinkable
INVESTING: Lose those winners
Save now, save later, but save something for retirement
Bioplastics have a small but growing market
INVESTING: Now's your chance to buy VW (the company, not the car)
Food and beverage stocks to fill up the pantry
FUNDAMENTALLY: Fundamentally: Time to get worried about inflation?
INVESTING: Investing: In buybacks they trust
Bank stocks to bank on
INVESTING: A rock of stability in global markets
BALANCE SHEET: Balance Sheet: Can midsize auditors be turned into big ones?
Mutual funds: Third-quarter scoreboard
Mutual funds: Emerging markets
Investing: U.S. homebuilders look like a bargain
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