All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Industrial

The US government has finally decided to nationalise the two home loan giants.  Between them, Fannie and Freddie guarantee 47% of all US mortgages, worth around $5 trillion - equivalent to the combined GDP of the UK and France.  High leverage makes earnings and management look wonderful...

Cemex announced an across-the-board $25/yard price increase for ready mixed concrete for all its operations in the U.S.  This increase is an overly simplistic plan for improving the profitability of the company in the U.S.  Cemex ignores the economics of supply and demand and the...

Acquisitions within the construction materials industry have continued in strong fashion, with multinational cement producers leading the way.  Bigger and bigger deals are being put together by the world's largest cement producers, both in the U.S. and abroad.  These producers...

Pressure continues to reimpose the mining ban in the Dade County Florida Lake Belt. The Lake Belt accounts for nearly 50% of limestone produced in the State of Florida.

U.S. is too large for this plan to work. There is no allowance for profit margin. Why would the auto companies want to be involved in this mess?

1.  Traction drive electric motors in the wheel has already been developed by Dana and Volvo. 2.  Yardney Technical Products, Inc., Stonington, CT has a battery system that has lasted for eights years and is working on a car battery that will charge in 15 minutes. 3.  The 2nd generation hybrid...

End users of minor metals for critical purposes, i.e., for purposes that are not economically or technologically possible without a particular minor metal, can hedge the required supply of metal by financing the producer's output, through offtake agreements, for example, and by being the buyer of last...

   Dioxins usually refer to a group of highly toxic chlorinated compounds  The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have an acceptable level for exposure, but has an “Action Level” of 1000 parts per trillion (ppt) for the most toxic dioxin (2,3,7,8- tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin)....

This story on a US based installer setting up shop in Mediterranean Europe is a good example of the challenges of dealing with what was until recently two of the hottest PV markets in the world for 2009 - Spain and the United States.  The dynamics of what the changes in incentives will do and how...

When the new decree that regulates the Feed-in Tariff for photovoltaic solar systems is approved, the profitability of these installation will be reduced a 45 % for roof type systems and a 65 % for ground type solar systems. The FIT will be reduced from 0,44 €/kW·h to 0,33 €/kW·h...