The earnings calendar remains light today, with notable reports arriving from Fuel- Tech (FTEK), United National Foods ( UNFI), AeroVironment ( AVAV), Metabolix (MBLX), and Pandora Media (P).
The critical fuel for tech growth, educated labor, is now expanding faster in places like Columbus, Austin, Raleigh, Dallas and Houston than in Boston, San Jose and San Francisco.
As an example, Pell pointed to platinum, a valuable commodity which is a critical part of catalytic converters for cars as well as clean-tech fuel cells.