ThinkstockWe have tracked the short interest in the following North American Solar companies as of May 31: Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: GTAT), SunEdison…
thinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of May 31 in the following large cap stock market shares: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…
ThinkstockThe Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) released its oil market report for June yesterday, and the International Energy Agency (IEA) followed suit this morning. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) kicks out its…
ThinkstockWages of many workers in the United Kingdom have collapsed recently. The causes of some these drops also exist in the United States, where real income has been stagnant for a decade. The problem…
ThinkstockU.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.5% in 2012 after growing 1.6% in 2011, the most the economy has grown since 2006. Nationally, manufacturing, trade and the finance and insurance industry made some…
MicrosoftThe fight over whether the new Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox One video game console or the Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) PS4 is the better product came less than minutes after each was introduced.…
ThinkstockThe odds that oil prices will fall over time, caused primarily by supply increases, got more support from the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its oil market report for June. The forecast is similar…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Department wants to help motorists analyze the real costs to drive their cars, a figure that is often a mystery. The number is hard to calculate because of the presence of…
courtesy Boeing Co.The reputation of the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner has been battered a number of times over its decade-long development and the manufacturing processes that delayed the launch of the plane…
ThinkstockBond giant PIMCO has forecast that the chance of a global recession sometime in the next five years is greater than 60%. Analyst Saumil Parikh made the remark on behalf of the firm. In a…
ThinkstockGreece is no longer a developed nation. It was downgraded to “emerging market” status by index firm MSCI. The oldest civilization in the Western World is among the most primitive economically, and that will…
courtesy of NBN at German WikipediaAltria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) may have given guidance on Tuesday of adjusted earnings per share of $2.35 to $2.41 for the full year for earnings growth of 6%…
thinkstockIs First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) stealing a page from the playbook of Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA). A fresh automatic shelf registration statement was issued by the top solar player in the United…
Newcastle Investment Corp. (NYSE: NCT) is one of the harder to analyze mortgage-backed securities REITs that pays investors a high dividend yield. It is confusing because Newcastle manages senior housing properties but also derives much…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a sell-off in Japan after the country’s central bank made no change either in the key interest rate or in the amount of bond purchases it…