It’s easy to be pessimistic these days. Libya’s civil war, surging oil prices and the disaster in Japan have combined forces to send financial markets tumbling. But the cold, hard facts about the economy paint a more optimistic…
Japan’s markets got a slight reprieve today as the yen slipped a bit after hitting a record high yesterday. While the lower value helped exporters recover from severe losses earlier in the trading session, the country has a lon…
Amid panic about the possibility of a radioactive fallout from Japan, Geiger counters and radiation pills have been flying off the shelves, sometimes at unscrupulous prices.
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Some investors have been running scared after the quake and tsunami that devastated parts of Japan and left it with an ongoing nuclear crisis. But when there’s gloom in the air, there’s also opportunity to buy on the dip and ga…
By Peter Gardett, AOL Energy
As Japan continues to reel amid an ongoing crisis following the earthquake of March 11, the U.S. electricity sector is bracing itself to deal with a backlash against the recently-resurgent nuclear power industry.
An explo…