Posted Wednesday, 23 July 2008 | Digg This Article | Source: GoldSeek.com Clean tech is global, with more public companies headquartered in Europe and Asia than in the United States. And some of the leaders—like Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems and German solar panel giant Q-Cells—don’t even list their shares on U.S. exchanges. This complicates things for American investors, but not insurmountably. As with most things that involve the exchange of information, trading foreign stocks is getting easier all the time. Here are some ways to do it: ADRs An American Depository Receipt (ADR) is created when a U.S. bank buys a large block of stock in a foreign company and bundles the shares for reissue on a U.S. stock exchange. The stock will have a normal ticker symbol, with “ADR” appended. For example, the Yahoo! Finance...
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