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T. Boone Pickens' plans to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas have hit a snag because debt capital has dried up, the investor says at conference.

The U.S. dollar fell against the euro and the pound Tuesday as rising stock prices overseas increased investor's appetite for the higher-yielding currencies.

The D.C.-area company has been backed by former AOL and Yahoo executives, and Facebook investor Accel Partners led its most recent round.

Company investor and chairman Elon Musk will take over as CEO, replacing Ze'ev Drori who will join the board. Layoffs are also planned as part of corporate review.

Question: Stocks always come back, until they don't! How long will an investor who invested in the NASDAQ at 5000 wait to break even, including inflation? 50 years?

Or longer? Do you really think investing in stocks is a good idea?

Mithras Capital, which owns a small percentage of Yahoo, proposes selling the company to Redmond for a 74 percent premium on Yahoo's current stock price, according to a report.

Asian stocks open down sharply amid investor panic that global governments may not be able to stem the financial crisis.

Back in May, when oil was at $129 per barrel and rising, billionaire investor Richard Rainwater did something as prescient as it was shocking: He sold off all the energy stocks he owned.

Investor Vinod Khosla says that radically clean tech is needed for climate change. Technology pathways that lead to dramatic change will work; others are a dead end.

Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla says the clean-tech industry needs to focus on "real stuff, not fashion."