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Solar Stock Rally Nears 2007-2008 Craze: Time for a Reality Check?

Posted: May 21, 2013 at 11:20 am

The solar stocks are back on fire. The problem is that this feels a lot like 2008, without the super-high share prices making it feel like another 1999 dot-com bubble ...
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Short Interest Plays Tricks Ahead of and into SolarCity Earnings

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 4:52 pm

Maybe Elon Musk is the modern real-world version of Tony Stark as you are seeing all over the internet. As for his SolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ: SCTY), the still relatively new solar power ...
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First Solar Marks a Top in Industry

Posted: May 7, 2013 at 10:55 am

When First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) reported first-quarter 2013 results after the markets closed last night, investors did not know whether to cheer or boo. Share prices rose and ...
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SunPower: The Hot Solar Energy Stock

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 2:52 pm

There hasn’t been a lot of good news in the solar energy business for the past couple of years, but SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) has really turned it around since ...
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Solar Perplex — Chasing First Solar or JinkoSolar?

Posted: April 10, 2013 at 12:20 pm

Following a rosy presentation at an analysts’ meeting yesterday, shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) rose more than 45%, pulling a wagon load of other solar panel makers along ...
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First Solar’s Latest Forecast Changes Everything for Short Interest (CSIQ, FSLR, GTAT, WFR, SPWR, JASO, LDK, STP, TSL, YGE)

Posted: April 10, 2013 at 8:40 am

We have tracked the short interest in the following North American Solar companies as of March 28: Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies ...
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First Solar Guidance Shocks — to the High Side

Posted: April 9, 2013 at 1:53 pm

In the disaster zone known as the solar sector, virtually all the news has been bad for so long that anything that smells like good news is jumped on as ...
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Going Private — an Option for China’s Solar Companies?

Posted: March 28, 2013 at 11:40 am

Chinese for-profit education company Ambow Education Holding Ltd. (NYSE: AMBO) got some bad news earlier this week. A proposed buyout by private equity firm Barings Asia Private Equity Fund V ...
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Suntech Woes Have Little Impact on Solar Short Interest (CSIQ, FSLR, GTAT, WFR, SPWR, JASO, LDK, STP, TSL, YGE)

Posted: March 27, 2013 at 8:35 am

We have tracked the short interest in the following North American Solar companies as of March 15: Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies ...
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Another Likely Survivor of the Chinese Solar Shakeout: JA Solar

Posted: March 25, 2013 at 7:20 am

JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) reported fourth-quarter and full year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The China-based solar panel maker reported a net loss per American ...
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Suntech Bankruptcy Heads for Chinese Courtroom

Posted: March 20, 2013 at 9:20 am

Once the world’s largest producer of solar PV cells and modules, Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) announced this morning that a group of eight Chinese banks have filed ...
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Chinese Solar Stocks — from Bad to Worse (STP, YGE, TSL, JASO, LDK, FSLR, SPWR)

Posted: March 19, 2013 at 11:50 am

Yesterday, Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) acknowledged that it had missed a $541 million debt payment and admitted that its trustee had sent it an official notice of ...
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It’s Official: Suntech Receives Notice of Default

Posted: March 18, 2013 at 11:25 am

China’s one-time leader in the production of solar panels has officially been notified by its trustee that the company is in default on a $541 million bond payment and that ...
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Suntech Defaults on Bond Payment

Posted: March 18, 2013 at 7:35 am

As expected, Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) failed to make a required $541 million bond repayment scheduled for last Friday. The company claimed last week to have reached ...
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The Coming End of Suntech

Posted: March 14, 2013 at 8:40 am

Chinese solar panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) announced earlier this week that it will close its plant in Arizona on April 3, costing 43 employees their ...
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