10:42am ET
Energy
First Solar Gets No Love
Shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are down more than 8% in early trading today following a downgrade from Avian to Negative and a report that one of the components in…
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4:03pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — September 27, 2012: Market Gains Boosted by Spain (GM, IMGN, MT, MON, HON, PRGS, WOR, FUL, DFS, MKC, RIMM, NKE, ACN, AM, FINL, WAG, TPX, ZZ, PPHM, FSLR)
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning as markets shook off weak news from Europe in favor of better news from Asia. In Europe, German unemployment stayed at 8.6%…
8:29am ET
Investing
Big Swings in Short Interest in Actively Traded Cult Stocks (ALU, BAC, BKS, DNDN, DMND, FB, FSLR, GMCR, GRPN, LNKD, NFLX, NOK, RSH, RIMM, SIRI, ZNGA)
Jon OggThe short interest in the actively traded cult stocks and also in some of the active low-priced shares can tend to be volatile, to say the least. We tracked some rather…
8:20am ET
Energy
Solar Stocks Short Interest: Anyone Care About Solar Stocks Any More? (CSIQ, FSLR, GTAT, WFR, SPWR, JASO, LDK, STP, TSL, YGE)
More solar makers saw short interest fall more than rise in the latest period. That could indicate that solar stocks are pretty much as low as they can get. One exception might…
11:17am ET
Housing
Blackstone $2 Billion Acquisition Ties in Solar and Home Automation
The Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) is going big into home automation, and we would note that there is a solar angle here as well. The private equity giant is paying a…
10:06am ET
Investing
Big Swings in Short Interest in Actively Traded Cult Stocks (ALU, BAC, BKS, DNDN, DMND, FB, FSLR, GMCR, GRPN, LNKD, NFLX, NOK, RSH, RIMM, SIRI, ZNGA)
The short interest in the actively traded cult stocks and low-priced shares seems to always contain some big surprises. That is again the case as of the August 31 settlement date. We…
9:41am ET
Energy
Solar Stocks Short Interest: Geography Matters (CSIQ, FSLR, GTAT, WFR, SPWR, JASO, LDK, STP, TSL, YGE)
We tracked the short interest in the following North American solar companies: Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: GTAT), MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.…
12:58pm ET
Energy
Solar Stocks Clawing Back Up (FSLR, HSOL, SPWR, STP, TSL, LDK)
Energy stocks were generally higher yesterday as shares reacted positively to China’s latest stimulus package and the expectations for more. Coal stocks did particularly well, but solar stocks also moved a little…
12:49pm ET
Energy
U.S. Solar Installations Will Drop in 2013 (FSLR, SPWR, TSL, STP, LDK, JASO, YGE, CSIQ)
The U.S. solar PV market rose sharply in the second quarter of 2012, compared both to the previous quarter and year-over-year. Total solar PV installations in the U.S. during the second quarter…
11:34am ET
Energy
Solar Stocks: Looking for a Value Play (CSIQ, FSLR, GTAT, WFR, SPWR, JASO, LDK, STP, TSL, YGE)
Solar stocks have fallen so far in the past year and a half that there doesn’t seem to be any further for them to fall. But that’s not the way the stocks…
4:05pm ET
Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — August 30, 2012: Markets Slide Waiting for Bernanke (HUM, YGE, AET, LPX, CTXS, LTRX, CHUY, TIVO, VRA, TD, OVTI, SAI, ZUMZ, P, CIEN, FSLR)
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning on an absence of new data from overseas and an expected drop in new claims for unemployment benefits did not occur (our…
1:04pm ET
Energy
First Solar Project Too Successful (FSLR, NRB, BRK-A, BRK-B, PCG)
Solar maker First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) will not ship any more modules to the company’s Agua Caliente solar farm project until January 2013. The stoppage is the result of the project…
10:26am ET
Investing
Big Swings in Short Interest in Actively Traded Cult Stocks (ALU, BAC, BKS, DNDN, DMND, FB, FSLR, GMCR, GRPN, LNKD, NFLX, NOK, RSH, RIMM, SIRI, ZNGA)
The short interest in the actively traded cult stocks and low-priced shares is often highly volatile. We tracked some rather large moves up and down in this group for the August 15 settlement…
7:36am ET
Energy
Amazing: Short Interest in Solar Stocks Cools Off (CSIQ, FSLR, GTAT, WFR, SPWR, JASO, LDK, STP, TSL, YGE)
We tracked the short interest in the following North American Solar companies: Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: GTAT), MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.…
11:07am ET
Energy
One Solar Merger Could Spark Others
We have long wondered if (or when) the wave of solar mergers was coming. We have seen several small deals, but so far we have yet to see any serious M&A in…