The News Review:
- Rise In 2Q Cleantech Investment Bodes Well For 3Q
- HKMA Exchange Fund Swings To 1H Net Investment Income
- Intel actively looking at more cleantech deals
- New York ffice Space Company fficeLinks Continues New …
- Loveland leaders mull investment options to aid downtown development
Rise In 2Q Cleantech Investment Bodes Well For 3Q
Wall Street Journal
“People are looking both at enacted legislation and at the broader climate change legislation that will be a major enabler for companies” in the sector to grow. During the second quarter the largest amount of investors’ money – at $157 million – went into energy and electricity generation which includes solar geothermal wind and hydro power compared with $56 million in the first quarter. The lion’s share of the total investment in renewable power generation or $148. 2 million went into solar deals. ne of the largest deals in solar during the second quarter was a $25 million Series A round by Mountain View Calif. -based Skyline Solar Inc. led by New Enterprise Associates.
HKMA Exchange Fund Swings To 1H Net Investment Income
Wall Street Journal
–>UPDATE:HKMA Exchange Fund Swings To 1H Net Investment Income ArticleCommentsmore in. ) HNG KNG (Dow Jones)–The fund that manages Hong Kong’s foreign-exchange reserves and backs its currency swung to net investment income of HK$23. 01 billion) in the first half from a net loss of HK$38. 3 billion a year earlier due to a rebound in global stock markets the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said Thursday. HKMA Chief Executive Joseph Yam had.
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Intel actively looking at more cleantech deals
Reuters
Cleantech ventures account for about 10 percent of investment Intel capital’s annual investment Eichenlaub said. The economic downturn is not changing its approach. “We are definitely investing with the same metrics as ever” Eichenlaub said. “I have 25 people around the world looking at investment opportunities. The downturn is helping Intel Capital’s portfolio. “CPower is a great example of a company that a year ago would have been harder for us to get a chance to look at” Eichenlaub said. Intel Capital’s previous high-profile cleantech investments include nearly $38 million in German solar company Sulfurcell and $50 million in a new solar cell start-up SpectraWatt.
New York ffice Space Company fficeLinks Continues New …
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Loveland leaders mull investment options to aid downtown development
The Coloradoan
Money for the loans would come from nearly $190 million that the city has in reserves. Much of that money already is going to fund construction projects around the state by investing in high-rated U. Scholl told the councilors that a revolving loan fund would take money out of those bonds and put it toward a construction loan for a developer building downtown project that the city chooses to partner with. The city would work with a bank on the finance deal with the bank providing 60 percent loans for the construction and the city putting up 20 percent and the developer putting up 20 percent in capital.