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...used to be that markets waited anxiously to see what the Federal Reserve would decide about short-term interest rates. These days that's a given: rates are stuck between 0% and 0.25% for the foreseeable future. Instead, the only real news one can hope for out of a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting has to do with the $1 trillion-plus stash of mortgages and other debt securities that the Fed has built up during the past two years of financial turmoil. Is it going to step up its purchases (meaning it's still worried about economic collapse...
...this chart shows, the severe drop-off in demand has been punishing. But with technology advancing - and computers aging - the seeds for a replacement cycle are in place. Morgan Stanley's analysts expect the up cycle to start in the consumer segment of the market in the final quarter of 2009, then move on to small-business buyers and finally big corporate buyers in the second half...
...prime case in point. Netbooks are cheap, and with new, high-efficiency processors on the scene, they will likely get more powerful, and cheaper still. So while unit volume is improving for tech companies, the actual revenue they bring in continues to decline. Sales data from the market-research firm NPD shows that in the U.S., technology unit sales were up 10% in May on a year-over-year basis. However, revenues declined 11% over the same time period. "Most of the unit growth is fueled by netbooks," observed analysts at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch in a recent report. (Read...
Duprey and many others in the renewable-energy industry would prefer a feed-in tariff, which requires utilities to buy alternative electricity at above-market rates. Feed-in tariffs have already been used with considerable success in European countries like Spain and Germany, where renewable power has achieved greater penetration than in the U.S. But there seems to be little chance of that happening in Washington, in part because the nascent renewable-energy industry lacks lobbying might. "It's hard out there for us," says Duprey. "We're not as well organized as the coal or nuclear industry." Renewables like...
...Since the center is research-based, much of what it has published in The State of the Nation's Housing has been reported or analyzed before. The report does, however, offer some interesting insights into how the "echo-boomer" generation could play a vital role in boosting the housing market. But like many economy- and housing-related projections, these figures are just forecasts. If anyone really knew when the housing market would bottom out or reach its peak, there would be no reason to speculate...