Short interest in a number of major financial firms rose for the period ending October 15.
Shares short in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 51% to 178.1 million. The short interest in CIT (NYSE:CIT) was up 21% to 85.6 million. Share sold short in Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) were up 14% to 71.5 million. Shares short in Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) were fairly flat. Read More
Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) beat earnings forecasts.
Reuters: The IRS is probing some homebuyers’ tax credit gains.
Reuters: The US is ready to bring more insider trading cases.
Reuters: More US companies are cutting bonuses. Read More
Wall Street analysts covered a few of the alternative energy names today: SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR was started as an Outperform rating at RBC Capital Markets; LDK Solar (NYSE:LDK) was downgraded to "Market Perform" at Piper Jaffray.
Puget Sound Energy, a subsidiary of Puget Energy (NYSE:PSD), is deepening its mark in renewable energy, with the utility and its customers now boasting more than 1,200 kilowatts (kW) of combined solar-power generating capacity or enough to serve the total power needs of 125 homes. As Puget Energy serves 1 million electric customers and 721,000 natural gas customers, there is still quite ways to go.
ENSR is providing environmental permitting and licensing support for four major solar energy projects in southern California. ENSR, part of AECOM (NYSE: ACM), is a leading global environmental services firm.
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