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EUEC Workshop fo Carbon Hedge Funds

Friday, January 23, 2009 : Permalink

West palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Two prominent carbon and CDM Experts, Peter C. Fusaro, Dr. Prabhu Dayal are presenting the ‘EUEC 2009′ in Phoenix, Arizona, the Carbon Trading course includes practical case studies for the design and development of CDM Projects and Certified Emission Reductions (CERs).

Aletrnative investment strategist, Global Change Associates, says the workshop will provide insights on the state of carbon trading markets and finance in the US and Europe and what some of the investment opportunities are in this emerging asset class for investors.

Case studies of renewable energy projects being developed by C TRADE in the Philippines will be used to illustrate the certification process for CERs, where methane gas emissions are avoided and electric power generated using waste methane bio-digester gas recovered from animal manure.

Fusaro is a Global Change Associates carbon expert and best selling author of "What Went Wrong at Enron", Dayal is President of C TRADE and Chair for EUEC.

Alex Akesson

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Experts differ on effect of short-selling ban

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 : Permalink
USA Today – Markets braced for Wednesday night’s scheduled expiration of the ban on short sales of more than 900 financial stocks, as investment analysts and advisers gave differing predictions on the potential impact.

The emergency ban is set to expire just before midnight, 13 trading days after the Securities and Exchange Commission imposed it with the aim of halting trading the agency said appeared to be "contributing to the recent, sudden price declines in the securities of financial institutions unrelated to true price valuation."

The expiration is timed to take effect three trading days after President Bush signed the $700 billion financial system bailout approved by Congress last week. Although the SEC retained authority to extend the ban through Oct. 17, the agency announced no changes Tuesday.

The ban has temporarily halted a legal practice in which traders borrow shares and sell them in the hope of profiting by replacing the borrowed shares with equivalents bought later in the market at a lower price. But it’s illegal to spread rumors or misinformation about a company in a bid to drive down its share price while short selling that firm’s stock.

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