Category: Alternative Energy

So with my Renesola adventures due to come to an end in the coming weeks, the first of my four purchases this week, will come as a no-brainer to those who’ve followed Investor Trader over the journey. PV Crystalox Solar is a, yep, you guessed it, solar energy company. Though it lacks the Chinese connection [...]

I just stumbled across a great article on the Malta Independant Online website with some wonderful juicy figures on renewable energy that I thought warranted sharing. The piece focused on a speech given by Pasquale Pistorio, a respected, now-retired Maltese businessman who for over 25 years was the head of STMicroelectronics. Below is an extract. [...]

So we pulled the trigger on Renesola and sold off 500 shares – half our holding – last Wednesday at a price of £3.5375 per share. The reasoning: well, besides SOLA.L pushing some two year highs, we’re working to a little bit of a deadline  before Renesola dumps its AIM listing and takes all of [...]

Readers of Investor Trader may remember my brief tryst with West China Cement which came to a premature end back in May of this year. Sadly, growth saw them forget their roots, pull their AIM listing and try to make it in the big city. In this case, the big city being Hong Kong. And [...]

And trust me, it is a tender offer. After purchasing our initial tranche of 1,960 China Biodiesel shares back in July 2009 for 6.6 pence a share and topping up a short week later at 10.06 pence (yep that’s a 50% rise in that short week), we were averaged into CBI.L at 9.29 pence a [...]


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