Top Clean Energy Companies To Buy For 2014

Natural gas has been an investment darling for some time now, but environmentalists have had decidedly mixed feelings for this relatively new energy source. While, on the one hand, natural gas emits far less greenhouse gas than do coal and oil, it's still a fossil fuel that contributes more to climate change than do clean energy sources such as wind and solar. The jury is still out on the safety of fracking, too. Because the energy investment case is so deeply linked to climate matters, long-term investors would be foolish to ignore these concerns.

Fortunately, there's a strong framework within which natural gas would keep greenhouse gas emissions low and portfolio returns high for years to come. The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) published a report recently that analyzes the climate challenges and opportunities the natural gas boom poses.�"Leveraging Natural Gas to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions" spells out how natural gas can be a tool for constraining climate change, so long as additional measures are pursued in tandem.

Top Clean Energy Companies To Buy For 2014: IG GROUP HLDGS ORD GBP0(IGG.L)

IG Group Holdings plc operates as a financial spread betting company worldwide. The company offers financial spread bets and contracts for difference on forex, stock indices, shares, commodities, binaries, options, interest rates, and other financial markets; fixed odd bets on financial markets; and margined forex and binary options. It is also involved in spread bets and fixed odds bets on sporting and other events, as well as operates a regulated futures and options exchange. In addition, the company engages in the operation of an online casino; margin trading and futures brokerage; and software development. It offers its products and services primarily to retail clients, market professionals, and corporate entities. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Top Clean Energy Companies To Buy For 2014: Weyerhaeuser Company(WY)

Weyerhaeuser Company, a forest products company, grows and harvests trees, builds homes, and manufactures forest products worldwide. It grows and harvests trees for use as lumber, other wood and building products, and pulp and paper. The company manages 6.4 million acres of private commercial forestland; and has long-term licenses on 13.9 million acres of forestland. It also offers timber; minerals, such as rock, sand, and gravel, as well as oil and gas to construction and energy markets; logs; timberland tracts; and seed and seedlings, poles, plywood, and hardwood lumber products. In addition, the company provides structural lumber products for structural framing; engineered lumber products for floor and roof joists, and headers and beams; structural panels for structural sheathing, subflooring, and stair treading for wood products dealers, do-it-yourself retailers, builders, and industrial users. Further, it offers building products comprising cedar, decking, siding, ins ulation, rebar, and engineered lumber connectors. Additionally, the company offers fluff pulp for use in sanitary disposable products; papergrade pulp for printing and writing papers, and tissues; specialty chemical cellulose pulp for use in textiles, absorbent products, specialty packaging, and high-bulking fibers; liquid packaging board converted into containers; and slush and wet lap pulp for manufacturing paper products. It also constructs single-family houses, as well as develops residential lots and land for construction and sale; and master-planned communities with mixed-use property. The company sells its cellulose fibers products through direct sales network, and liquid packaging products directly to carton and food product packaging converters; and wood products through sales organizations and distribution facilities. Weyerhaeuser Company has been elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust. The company was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Federal Way, Washington.

Top Growth Companies To Invest In Right Now: Marconi (MONI.L)

Marconi : taking on the inheritance.Wearing the name of the renowned pioneer of telecommunications and the world of the wireless data transmission, the Nobel Prize laureate Guglielmo Marconi could have been pure chance, or a mere commercial asset. Such is not the case with the Marconi group (formerly called The General Electric Company), which was always able, despite all the jolts of its history, to challenge the inheritance of this famous patronymic.It is little to say that our present universe has evolved. It is impossible to imagine what a world without mobile telecommunications solutions, multimedia data transfer, mobile telephone systems, Internet would be like. But behind this technologist revolution are groups, among which Marconi.A major actor in the conception and marketing of telecommunication dedicated softwares as well as in the concrete hardware market, Marconi can, as a manufacturer, supply both faces (software and hardware) of what has always been called 't he information highways'.Therefore, companies as well-known as Cable & Wireless, UUNET Technologies, Level 3 Communications, MCI/WorldCom or Qwest call on an evolutional know-how, specialized (Ethernet, Internet, optical networks among others) available in more than 100 countries around the world.