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Earth Day Tainted By Billions In Alternative Energy Losses (FAN, QLCN, TAN, KWT, PWND, PBW, FSLR, SPWR, WFR, XOM, CVX, BP, CREE, TSLA)

Earth Day is April 22, 2012, which is this Sunday.  Many Americans and many people elsewhere will be thinking about how they can be more green.  Sadly, there are going ...
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At All-Time Lows… Can First Solar Manage To Avoid Death? (FSLR, TAN, PBW, SPWR, WFR)

First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is the king of U.S. solar companies.  Despite a monstrous rally in the stock market year-to-date, First Solar shares hit a new 52-week low today.  In ...
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Will Taxpayers Get Burned By First Solar? (FSLR, TAN, PBW)

First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is getting crushed with an 9% loss in its stock this morning.  The move is on the heels of earnings and a much lowered expectation ...
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First Solar: Can It Save the Solar Sector? (FSLR, CSIQ, LDK, TSL, TAN, ICLN, PBW, PBD, PZD, KWT)

Earnings from global leader First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are due tomorrow, and while EPS estimates for the company have fallen from just over $2/share to $0.92/share in the past ...
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Opportunities & Risks In Clean Energy Funds (PBW, TSLA, SOLR, SQM, PPO, TAN, FSLR, MYBUF, TSL, SPWRA, GEX, CREE, ICLN, OEZVF, EOC, KWT, WFR)

Clean energy funds first sprung up in about 2005, with the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Fund (NYSE: PBW). Others have followed, but for the most part these funds have fairly ...
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The Eight ETFs Which Owe Japan (KOL, TAN, KWT, PBW, EWV, UNG, GAZ, NAGS)

The news coming out of Japan for its nuclear reactors is sadly starting to now get more media coverage than the vast death toll.  The projected death toll is somewhere ...
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Twist of Fate: MEMC Now May Save Solar Stocks (WFR, SOLR, JASO, SPWRA, FSLR, TAN, PBW)

MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) is leading solar related shares higher after its earnings.  The irony is that MEMC is perhaps one of the larger disappointments in the world ...
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The Best Solar Stock for 2011 (FSLR, STP, LDK, JASO, SPWRA, ENER, TSL, TAN, PBW)

If there's any single word that defines the solar market for 2011, it is "uncertainty." Policy changes in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere in Europe are expected to ...
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SunPower & NRG Double Down on Solar (SPWRA, NRG, PCG, FSLR, WFR, TAN, PBW)

The state of California has mandated that a third of its electricity come from renewable sources by the end of the decade. This has caused something of a boomlet in ...
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Can Trina and Others Escape Solar Darkness? (TSL, LDK, STP, JASO, TAN, PBW, FSLR)

Oil may still be above $80.00, but solar stocks are on skid row.  The dollar/euro is heading the wrong way, new government uncertainty growing louder, and a concern over all ...
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Top Investment Trends For Futurists (FFD, AFK, EZA, PHO, PIO, PXN, TINY, LIT, BP, PBW, PZD, PBD, REMX, NLR, MOO, GLD, BBH, IBB, FPX, IPOSX)

Futurists are an odd lot.  Generally, they are authors, scientists,  consultants and economists.  What many people don't know is that investors follow this philosophy as well.  Their goal is to ...
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First Solar Increases 2011 MW Sales Outlook (FSLR, PBW, TAN)

First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has raised its guidance, of a sort.  While the company did not give financial guidance it did raise its Megawatt order expectations.  The lack of ...
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Solar Trends: Great for Utilities, Bad for PV-Makers (FSLR, WFR, SOLF, SPWRA, AMAT, TAN, PBW)

Solar power is great, unless you make the equipment behind all the solar power.  The insatiable and endless growth in demand for solar panels and materials used to make them ...
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Oil Drop’s Real Losers: Alternative Energy Stocks (TAN, PBW, LDK, ESLR, JASO, CSIQ, AKNS, HOKU, ZOLT, FCEL, CPST, AMSC)

Oil has fallen off the proverbial cliff into the roll date and as the concerns that the eurozone's weakness is going to spread enough to really hurt the recovery of ...
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Iceland Volcano Vs. Alternative Energy and Global Warming (FSLR, PBW, PEIX)

The volcano in Iceland is still spewing ash into the air.  While many Americans have discussed investment banking scandals, the volcano situation in Iceland is affecting far more than many ...
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