Monday, April 13, 2015

3 Energy Storage Investment Ideas: 1 to Buy, 1 to Hold, and 1 to Sell: NextEra Energy Inc (NYSE: NEE), Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA ), General Electric Company (NYSE: GE )

The energy storage market is currently estimated at a measly $130 million. By 2019, it's expected to grow 11 times over to a $1.5 billion valuation. Energy stock investors are keen to buy while the getting's good, but not all energy stocks are created equal. Here's what you need to know.
To buy: NextEra Energy Inc

NextEra Energy Inc (NYSE: NEE  ) is our nation's leading renewables utility, which makes it a natural fit for energy storage. With more than 11,300 MW of wind power capacity and around 800 MW of solar capacity, this company has a keen interest in smoothing its power pull with storage devices. As NextEra's Executive Director of Development Vijay Singh puts it:  (more)

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Martin Armstrong: Big Losses Coming in the Bond Market



Renowned financial analyst Martin Armstrong says you can forget about the U.S. dollar crashing in value. Armstrong contends, “No, that’s absurd. The euro is in terrible shape. The yen is in terrible shape, and honestly, you can’t park money in yuan or Russian rubles, yet. I mean, let’s be realistic here, but eventually--yes.”

Armstrong says the bond market is a different story as the Fed is going to be forced to raise rates. He contends just a few percentage points in rising rates are going to cause big losses and big changes. Armstrong predicts, “People will be losing huge money. We are looking at a few percentage points, and you are going to blow the national debts of all these countries way out of whack, and that’s what’s going to force political change.”

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5% Dividends and 100% Upside Potential... Outside of U.S. Stocks

Right now, emerging markets offer some of the planet's highest dividend yields...
 
At this moment, you can earn a 5% dividend in the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund (DEM).
 
In our zero-percent-interest-rate world, a 5% dividend is massive... Money will certainly be attracted to this 5% dividend very soon – driving the price of this fund up (and its yield down).
 
For now, investors have been completely ignoring emerging markets...(more)
 
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Stocks To Watch: FEYE, SYMC, KING, DDD, GPRO, BBRY

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FireEye Inc (NASDAQ:FEYE) which had been flagging for weeks off its upmove from mid-February, from the 36.8 area to around 46.50, broke out of the bullish flag on Friday with a spike in volume. MACD starts the bullish crossover. Immediate resistance at $44 followed by $46.44 (Previous High). Technically the chart is very bullish. This will be a stock to watch going forward.

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Shares of Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC) soared 5.59% on Friday to 25.58 per share on report of potential Veritas sale. According to Wall Street Journal, the data-storage and recovery business could fetch more than $8 billion in a sale. Daily technical chart looks really positive as the stock has just crossed above all EMAs with MACD rising on top of signal line. In addition, since RSI has not reached overbought level yet, there is still plenty of room for the stock to go up.

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King Digital Entertainment PLC (NYSE:KING) is on the way to the price target of $21 (Inverted Head and Shoulders) after breaking the Neckline. A decisive rally above 16.93 next week will accelerate the stock higher to the 18-19 zone in the short-term. The stock is technically bullish.

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3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) has formed a Double Bottom pattern. The stock price is currently testing the $30 level. A breakout from this area will stop the down trend and the first price target is $33. The next resistance after $33 is about $37.57, the 200-day EMA resistance. MACD continues to show a clear positive divergence making higher highs and higher lows.

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GoPro Inc (NASDAQ:GPRO) is currently testing down trend channel resistance. This level is also the 50-day EMA. A break out above the upper line of the channel & 50EMA, will be the beginning of an up trend. The MACD has just crossed the zero line.

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BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) rebounded nicely from the lower line of the range area around 8.60. Technically and fundamentally Blackberry looks good for a bullish trade. Daily MACD is back above signal line and RSI is about to clear 50% level, which would reflect loss of the prevailing bearish momentum. Long setup on watch.

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US Weekly Economic Calendar

time (et) report period ACTUAL CONSENSUS
forecast
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MONDAY, APRIL 13
2 pm Federal budget March   -- -$37 bln
TUESDAY,  APRIL 14
8:30 am Retail sales March   1.1% -0.6%
8:30 am Retail sales ex-autos March   0.6% -0.1%
8:30 am Producer price index March   0.2% -0.5%
10 am Business inventories Feb.   0.3% 0.0%
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15
8:30 am Empire state index April   7.0 6.9
9:15 am Industrial production March   -0.4% 0.1%
9:15 am Capacity utilization March   78.5% 78.9%
2 pm Beige book        
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
8:30 am Weekly jobless claims April 11
284,000 281,000
8:30 am Housing starts March
1.03 mln 897,000
10 am Philly Fed April   7.0 5.0
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
8:30 am Consumer price index March   0.3% 0.2%
8:30 am Core CPI March   0.2% 0.2%
9:55 am Consumer sentiment April   93.7 93.0
10 am Leading indicators March   -- 0.2%
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