Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is seeing the price of Tesla stock defy gravity. In the last couple of weeks it looked as though the $97 handle was going to mark…
flickr / walmartcorporateIt is no secret that the solar energy stocks have been on fire in 2013. In fact, they have been one of the best groups for investors this year. 24/7 Wall St.…
ThinkstockThe price of oil has dropped below $94 a barrel, and gasoline prices have been falling as well. The ongoing decline in gas prices in the United States may be helped by low travel…
ThinkstockFor every Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) success, there is at least one failure in the electric car industry. One company just went under, less than a week after Tesla paid off U.S. government…
ThinkstockHigh-flying energy company InterOil Corp. (NYSE: IOC) is getting another stock price boost this morning after revealing that the company is in “exclusive” negotiations with Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) on development of licenses…
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 89 billion cubic feet last week, at the lower end of a range of an expected build of between…
ThinkstockLast year was a good year for oil and gas stocks, but unless a company had a refining and marketing operation, it was not a great year. Share prices rose by at least 80%…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report this morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories decreased by 300,000 barrels last week, bringing the total U.S. commercial crude inventory to 394.6 million…
ThinkstockA strong stock market has the oil and gas master limited partnerships (MLPs) on fire in 2013, which already offer high dividends or distributions as income and return of capital. MLPs underperformed the broad…
thinkstockThe solar stocks are back on fire. The problem is that this feels a lot like 2008, without the super-high share prices making it feel like another 1999 dot-com bubble all over again. We…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its annual report on U.S. ethanol production capacity for 2013. The 193 U.S. ethanol plants have a total capacity of 903,000 barrels a day, slightly more…
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) may have dated regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on public and Indian lands. That will, for the time being, keep the relatively new…
ThinkstockGasoline prices for Memorial Day will reach a two-year high, according to data from the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. It is not clear at all what, if anything, this will do to the economy. So…
ThinkstockLast Friday shares of Real Goods Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: RSOL) virtually doubled. Shares are up another 50% so far today and have been trading around $6 a share after posting a new 52-week high…
ThinkstockJA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The China-based solar panel maker reported a net loss per American depositary share (ADS) of $0.85 on revenues…