Salient to Investors: The FAA appears willing to allow drones to be used in the energy sector and is expected to release drone use rules in the next twelve months. Large companies like Google, Boeing, and Northrup Grumman, have significant drone businesses and will benefit from wider use of drones
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Energy-related emissions were flat in 2014 for the first time in 40 years. Technology and policy innovations in energy are not happening on the scale that they need to. In 2011, federal spending on R&D as a percentage of GDP in 2011 was half
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Iraq no longer exists. Many of the Arab states around Iraq are more anti-Shiite than they are anti-ISIS. ISIS gets support from the discontent of Sunnis who feel persecuted by the Shiite and Alawite governments of Iraq and Syria. Britain that has lost its special
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Exports from the US are set to pick up in 2013 as global growth strengthens. Gary Hufbauer at Peterson Institute for Intl Economics said competitive US industries include agriculture, medical supplies and aviation, and exports are a very high-paying sector of the US economy – jobs are more steady in export-oriented
READ MORE... →Carriers are rushing to buy newer and more fuel-efficient aircraft. Newer aircraft use less fuel because more efficient engines and use of lightweight materials. Teal Group’s Richard Aboulafia says the market for large aircraft in general is disappearing fast. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-13/boeing-747-prices-tumble-as-higher-fuel-costs-end-23-year-reign.html
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