Axiom Capital’s Gordon Johnson is remaining negative on First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) as his comments made on CNBC were still very negative. Johnson has been very vocal against the company for…
Jon C. Ogg First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) had been trying to recover from its lows but its shares have stalled in recent days. Now comes news that the firm has hired Georges Antoun as…
The short interest data is out using the June 15 settlement date and we have compared this to the May 31 settlement date and prior periods for a comparison. With choppy markets in…
Jon C. Ogg At last week’s Rio+20 conference in Brazil, a representative of Standard & Poor’s Latin American office told a panel on sustainable development that “banks and utilities are unlikeloy to provide financing of…
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has been battered and left for dead. Interestingly enough, the latest news flow has not been as bad and with shares above $14.50 the recovery is around 25%…
Chinese solar PV maker JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) reported results for the company’s first fiscal quarter today, and the results were not pretty. The company, once positioned as a low-cost…
Huntington Asset Advisors has announced the launch of an actively managed exchange-traded fund via Huntington Strategy Shares called the Huntington EcoLogical Strategy Shares ETF (HECO). This is the first of two ETFs the firm…
The solar PV industry just got a little bright. The government of Japan has approved a new feed-in tariff plan for the country that will pay developers of solar energy generation a…
Shares of several of the solar PV makers are trading higher today, most likely due to today’s options expirations. Shares of Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL) are up more than 7% as…
Chinese solar panel maker JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) this morning announced an ADS repurchase plan for up to $100 million by the end of September. The strangeness of this…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Thursday. We also have many changes to the Argus Model Portfolio. ABB Ltd.…
Installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels doubled in 2011 and appears to be on track to grow by an additional 75% in 2012. But that could be end of the run for…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning as despite weak data from the UK and higher debt yields on Eurozone sovereign debt. Spanish 10-year bonds rose to a record…
Solar panel maker First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is trading up nearly 15% today following the company’s announcement that it will now keep its German manufacturing facility open until the end of…
Jon OggThe short interest data is out using the May 31 settlement date. As the market dropped so much in May, it is an interesting look to see what short sellers did…
