Markets opened lower this morning, and continued to fall before holding at around -150 points for most of the day on the DJIA. Japan’s yen sale pushed the dollar sharply higher and…
About a month and a half ago, we looked at several solar stocks to try to determine if there happened to be a good value play in the sector. Given the significant…
The blossoming trade war with China has just been warmed-up a notch. Led by a German solar PV maker with operations in the US, seven US-based companies have filed a trade case…
Stock prices for the solar PV makers have fallen by -40% to -80% in the past 12 months, with the bulk of the crash occurring since May. The collapse is due to…
Last June Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) created a $280 million fund with SolarCity to finance residential solar projects. Yesterday the world’s search engine giant created a $75 million fund with startup Clean…
In the wake of the weak global economic news, some alternative energy stocks are being swept along in the current of bad news, while a few others are making a bit of…
Solar PV maker First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) failed to meet a deadline in its application for a federal loan guarantee amounting to $1.9 billion for its Topaz solar farm project. The…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) Removed from US 1 List but…
The China Development Bank has provided the country’s largest polysilicon maker with two new credit facilities totalling $713 million. GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. (OTC: GCPEF) can add that total to the $303…
The month of August was hard on US solar makers. Evergreen Solar closed its doors a few weeks ago, followed by privately held and Intel Corp.-supported (NASDAQ: INTC) SpectraWatt, Inc. a few…
About 10 days ago, LDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) lowered its guidance for the second quarter, and this morning the bad news became official. If anything, it’s even worse than expected.…
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 Yingli Green…
Earnings season has mostly wound down as far as the big market movers but there are still many companies dribbling out earnings reports. This coming week we have many companies that still…
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 straight downward…
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 trading. Solar…
