The actual technology used to generate electrical energy has only a weak influence on the cleared price of energy in a large free market of this sort.
Even the strong results failed to boost the weak outlook for energy stocks as Halliburton shares fell by almost 8% yesterday.
Solar-energy cell sales also fell due to weak demand in Europe amid its financial crisis.
Why?? The International Energy Agency says it is because of weak demand.
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But, as was seen in the 1970s, rising energy prices can lead to inflation despite weak growth, a concept known as stagflation.
Kicking off earnings season, Alcoa posted second quarter results after the bell on Monday, hitting EPS expectations of 32 cents right on the head as the Dow component realized higher prices and saw increased demand, despite a weak U.S. dollar and rising energy and material costs.
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McCain's top economic adviser about a broad range of other issues, including the weak dollar, health care, social security and energy.
Why exactly has the ruble stayed so persistently weak over the past few years, particularly as energy prices have increased significantly?
More recently, the cost of living has experienced another nasty upward jolt, with inflation peaking at over 5% in 2011 thanks to the weak pound, VAT hikes and rising world food and energy prices.
Correctly or not, complaints from business groups that the carbon market and other climate policies are contributing to higher energy prices at a time when they are already grappling with a weak economy appeared to be decisive in Tuesday's vote.
The camera should be able to gather enough data to allow all four possible avenues for exploring dark energy: galaxy clusters, supernovae, large-scale galaxy clumping and weak gravitational lensing, at the same time.
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However, by spending time and energy aggressively pursuing marginal matters or pushing the law to its limits for weak cases, regulators run the risk of missing the boat on better cases that could benefit from additional attention.
Mr Callow said that while a weak yen would help boost profits of exporters, the rise in energy costs "would offset some of those gains".
In particular, the sunlight and wind speed are too weak to meet a meaningful portion of the region's prodigious energy needs ... at least with today's technology.
Energy (XLE), Oil (OIH) and Agribusiness (MOO) are also relatively weak.
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Unemployment is high precisely because a weak dollar either has investors in hiding, and then to some degree chasing an energy spike that is monetary in nature.
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Coal revenues declined 10% on the back of a weak market and cheap natural gas prices, as shares in companies in the sector including Peabody energy have taken a beating.
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