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Solar Stocks Get a Boost That Can’t Last (STP, YGE, FSLR, LDK, TSL, SOL, JASO, TAN)

Posted: August 22, 2011 at 11:12 am

After weeks of bad news have sent solar stocks further and further into a dark pit, a couple of earnings reports from Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) and ...
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More Disaster in Solar Sector (LDK, JASO, FSLR, SPWRA, TSL, SOL, CSIQ, STP, ESLR, TAN)

Posted: August 19, 2011 at 8:32 am

Solar PV makers continue to hammer themselves and their peers with a seemingly never-ending torrent of terrible news. After markets closed yesterday LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) revised guidance ...
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Solar Stocks Bloodied Again (JASO, TSL, SOL, FSLR, CSIQ, STP, TAN)

Posted: August 18, 2011 at 10:39 am

This morning's downgrade by Morgan Stanley of global growth prospects has started the market off on the wrong foot, sending equities down about -3% in the first half hour of ...
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First Solar Shares Skid on Executive’s Departure (FSLR, ESLR, GE, NEE, TAN)

Posted: August 17, 2011 at 10:00 am

After markets closed yesterday, First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) announced the resignation of Jens Meyerhoff, president of its utility systems business group, effective September 30th. Meyerhoff joined First Solar in ...
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Has the Solar Sector’s Fate Changed? (FSLR, SPWRA, TSL, LDK, JASO, SOL, WFR, YGE, TAN, KWT)

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 12:39 pm

Solar companies have seen a big bounce from recent lows and it seems as if something may be brewing if the underlying will cooperate.  The most significant event in the ...
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First Solar, The Ultimate Sector Solar Drag Rather Than Savior (FSLR, WFR, SOLR, JASO, JKS, LDK, TSL, STP, YGE, SPWRA, TOT, ESLR, ENER, ASTI, TAN)

Posted: August 5, 2011 at 10:40 am

Three major solar PV companies reported earnings after markets closed yesterday, and the final score does not look promising for the solar PV makers. First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) and ...
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Earnings Previews: Solar’s Cloudy Days (WFR, FSLR, YGE, TSL, SPWRA, TAN)

Posted: August 3, 2011 at 11:50 am

The solar sector is getting off to a bad start for earnings season as the economy softens and as the market keeps hurting investors.   We have two key solar issues ...
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Chinese Government Gives Solar a Boost (JASO, JKS, LDK, TSL, STP, YGE, TAN)

Posted: August 2, 2011 at 9:06 am

The government of China has just authorized what amounts to a feed-in tariff on the country's grid operators, who will have to pay $0.16- $0.18/kWh to solar PV developers which ...
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First Solar: Can It Save the Solar Sector? (FSLR, CSIQ, LDK, TSL, TAN, ICLN, PBW, PBD, PZD, KWT)

Posted: July 25, 2011 at 9:36 am

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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Accounting Troubles, Weak Demand Stifle China’s Solar Juggernaut (JASO, TSL, STP, YGE, LDK, FSLR, TAN)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 2:48 pm

Chinese solar PV makers are taking a few more lumps today as investors continue to shy away from a sector that has been damaged by low demand forecasts and accounting ...
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American Superconductor Restatement Highlights The Woes In Solar Sector (AMSC, ESLR, SOLR, SOL, TAN)

Posted: July 12, 2011 at 11:56 am

Today is not a good-news day in the alternative energy sector. American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) has said that it will restate revenues for the last two calendar quarters of ...
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The Solar Consolidation Phase May Just Be Starting (JASO, LDK, JKS, SPWRA, TOT, RSOL, WFR, FSLR, ESLR, ENER, TAN)

Posted: July 1, 2011 at 10:38 am

The merger and consolidation phase in solar may be getting underway.  Solar PV maker JA Solar Holdings, Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) has reached an agreement to purchase privately held Silver ...
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DOE Saves the Day for First Solar, Maybe Others Too (FSLR, SPWRA, TAN)

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 11:12 am

First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has received loan guarantees from the US Department of Energy totaling $4.5 billion for the construction of three solar projects in the southern California that ...
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Solar Stock Slide… From Leveraged Energy to Value to Something Else (FSLR, JASO, ENER, LDK, SPWRA, YGE, TSL, STP, RNWEF, SATC, TOT, TAN)

Posted: June 22, 2011 at 10:58 am

The solar stocks used to be leveraged energy companies.  The sell-off after the energy bubble popped was as bad as it could get, and now many of these companies look ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: US Solar Grows, But Not Fast Enough (FSLR, SPWRA, LDK, STP, JASO, TSL, TAN, KWT)

Posted: June 16, 2011 at 10:19 am

Solar PV makers had a good first quarter in the US. A report from GTM Research for the Solar Energy Industry Association concludes the US solar PV installation grew by ...
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