There have been ongoing negotiations all centered around keeping Greece in the EU, but Greece must continue to agree to and continue austerity measures.
The banks have been badly beaten down, but Greece surprised with GDP expansion of 0.7% in Q1, in the middle of a deep recession. Problems with Syrian refugees, etc.
Other Greek banks - EGFEY, BPIRY, NBGGY, ALNKY, also GREK (Greek ETF) -
check charts, etc. I have been following for months now. Greek news -
re; looking at NBGGY (as well as other Greek bank stocks) for continuation as negotiations regarding debt forgiveness as part of the larger bailout package progress.
part one/ looks like ah gem/ So why is Eco Science Solutions so excited about the alternative medicines category? There are $6.9 Billion (and more) reasons why. The category along is estimated to produce revenues of $10 Billion in 2016, of which $3.1 Billion (31%) are from ingestible product sales and $6.9 Billion (69%) is coming from ancillary products and services.
The category represents a ground floor opportunity for Eco Science Solutions to target as alternative medicines has been mainly ignored by mainstream businesses.
It is estimated that a30% annual growth rate is not out of the question.
Some analysts have claimed the category has the potential to surpass the organic food industry in size.
Since it is clear that Eco Science Solutions is taking a page out of Amazon.com’s playbook to focus on developing the technology infrastructure to create lifetime value in its customer acquisitions, it seems like a natural evolution to see Eco Science Solutions to continue to grow and extend itself perfectly into the alterative medicines category.
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esla looks like it may be in hot pursuit of a new market.
The electric car company's Model S sedan is being tested by the Los Angeles Police Department, the police force in the nation's second-biggest city. Testing has been underway for nearly a year, and the agency has two Model S P85D loaner cars.
"Tesla definitely stepped up and gave us the Model S to do some evaluation with them," said LAPD Police Administrator Vartan Yegiyan. Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is working with the agency "to assess the vehicle's performance in our environment and to learn what are the drawbacks and positives of this type of vehicle in our fleet operation. Not only on the regular transportation side, but also the future in the high-pursuit-rated vehicle arena."
Tesla declined to comment for this report.
LAPD doesn't rule out the Tesla as a future option, at least in the longer term, despite the current lofty price.
"Is it practical now? No," Yegiyan said, but he added that over "the next three to five years ... not only will the industry push toward electrification, but prices will drop on vehicles. More models will be coming out, and the electricity and electrical grid will become more robust, and more charging stations will be available. While that's occurring we'll be in the space learning and contributing to the process."
The Tesla Model S P85D carries a manufacturer's suggested retail price of around $100,000, although some models are cheaper.
Ford's Explorer-based Police Interceptor SUV, the nation's top-selling police model, has an MSRP of nearly $30,000; that can rise to the range of $45,000 to $50,000 when outfitted with LAPD's police equipment.
In addition, LAPD is testing the all-electric BMW (XETRA: BMW-DE) i3, which has a MSRP of about $43,000. The department already has purchased more than 20 electric scooters and about a half dozen electric motorcycles used by patrol officers.
"In California , there's pressure from above and there's also a desire on the part of the (electric vehicle) manufacturers to get their vehicles out there," said Tom Libby, an analyst at IHS Automotive. He said that generally, however, the concept of using the luxury-priced Tesla Model S for police departments or city use "doesn't make any sense from a budget standpoint."
Ford (NYSE: F), with 61 percent share, dominates the U.S. police car market, according to the latest 12-month figures from IHS Automotive. General Motors (NYSE: GM)' Chevrolet unit has about 21 percent of the market, while Fiat Chrysler's (Milan Stock Exchange: FCA-IT) Dodge brand holds around 18 percent.
"We are a leader in law enforcement, and we intend to remain the leader," said Randy Freiburger, Ford police and ambulance fleet supervisor.
An all-electric police fleet could become a problem for some cities, particularly when hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and other natural disasters cause charging stations to go down. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy took out charging stations in Manhattan.
New York City recently outfitted about 1,300 Ford Fusion hybrids for mixed use between NYPD and other municipal agencies. Some police departments use Toyota's (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 7203.T-JP) Prius hybrids for undercover work and traffic enforcement. Toyota said it is not in talks with the LAPD to lease any hybrids.
LAPD buys on average about 600 to 750 vehicles each year, representing a total cost of up to $30 million, according to Yegiyan.
F / The Ford Interceptor SUV is the department's newest black-and-white patrol vehicle, replacing some of its aging Ford Crown Victorias. The Interceptor SUV police vehicles are tested for a 75-mph rear crash and have special braking and cooling system features not found on the retail model.
"Conventional electric vehicles already come with lots of technology," said the LAPD official. "They have many capabilities that conventional vehicles, or at least the brands that we purchase at the lower level, do not have. We have to pay top dollar to add or retrofit the vehicles."
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Tesla Motors Inc: Shady TSLA Stock Offering Reeks of Desperation Tesla is short on cash and investors are short on patience By Aaron Levitt, InvestorPlace Contributor | May 19, 2016, 10:37 am EDT
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) makes an incredible product. Elon Musk is a genius. His electric car-making monster has the potential to change the transportation industry and even the world forever. And together, this has made some Tesla stock holders very rich in the process. It’s tough to argue any of this.
The thing is, sometimes “disruptors” can’t actually find a way to make their big dreams work in concert with the accountants … and that seems to be the case for Musk and Tesla.
Tesla announced last night that the company would be selling $2 billion worth of additional TSLA stock in a secondary offering — the completely unsurprising follow-up to the company’s announcement that it would be pushing up its annual production target to 500,000 units by 2018. Tesla needs infrastructure to build that many cars, and the money had to come from somewhere … because it didn’t have it on hand.
Dreaming big is great, especially when you’re privately held. But once you hit the public markets — and that’s where Tesla stock is — you can only kick the can so far down the road before investors start to get antsy. The selling in TSLA since April is one indication that some investors are getting fed up with the disconnect between dreams and how they’ll be achieved.
And the past couple announcements from Tesla make it seem more and more likely that famed short seller Jim Chanos is right on Elon Musk and TSLA stock.
Right now, anyone in or considering entering Tesla stock needs to separate any thoughts about the brilliant man from his money-losing entities.
Some Shady Business in Tesla Stock Companies execute secondary offerings all the time, so the idea of selling more shares is nothing new. Shareholders get diluted this way all the time. And depending on the company, it’s not necessarily a bad thing in the long run.
What has a lot of investors furrowing their brows is the way this Tesla stock sale was announced.
On the morning of Wednesday, May 18, investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) upgraded TSLA stock to “Buy,” giving it a new price target of $250 and saying it was undervalued by 22%. As expected, Tesla shares shot upward.
Then, after the market closed, Goldman Sachs and Tesla were intertwined in another way.
TSLA MS GS Tesla Motors announced that it was going to sell an additional $2 billion worth of TSLA stock to help build out what it needs to produce all those Model 3s. The offering is being led by underwriters Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) … and Goldman Sachs.
That’s right. Goldman Sachs lauded TSLA, then showed up to sell those suddenly hyped shares to investors.
Activists, journalists and other market pundits took to Twitter, and other media outlets to vent their frustration and legality of the deal.
At the very least, it’s a pretty bad look for Tesla.
A Bigger Issue The shady “pump-n-dump” is bad on its own, even if it’s legal, which it most likely is. But it does highlight some greater concerns.
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