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 announcement nearly…
Oil remained near an eight-month low, ahead of a meeting of OPEC ministers. The market continues to gamble that Saudi Arabia, the most powerful member of the cartel, will prevail in its plan to…
JP Morgan Alerian MLP Index ETN (AMEX: AMJ) is one of the most liquid instruments out there in the world of MLP investing, but another competing interest is a closed-end fund that employs some…
Shares of A123 Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE) rose more than 50% yesterday on the company’s announcement of a new battery technology. While there is substantial promise in the new technology, which A123 calls Nanophosphate…
The development of unconventional natural gas resources in the lower 48 states supported 1 million jobs in 2010, and that total will grow to 1.5 million by 2015 and to more than 2.4 million…
The Department of Energy is out with its weekly oil and gasoline inventory data. Crude oil stocks fell by 191,000 barrels in the last week to 384.438 million barrels. We were expecting a larger…
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 a while.…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) this morning released its monthly oil market report, and as usual, there is some variation from the report that came out yesterday from OPEC. The IEA claims OPEC pumped…
Beset by rising rhetoric about a possible Israeli attack against its nuclear facilities, Iran is seeking full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as an additional layer of international diplomatic “life insurance.” On 12…
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 this year…
OPEC’s Monthly Oil Market Report was released this morning and it showed that total crude oil production from OPEC member nations rose to 32.96 million barrels/day in April. That’s a rise of 631,000 barrels/day…
There are reports that Saudi Arabia may battle with its fellow OPEC members over near term oil production. The Saudis have supported high exports recently, which has helped the price of crude to drop…
The $125 billion bailout of Spain’s banks put some life in US stocks this morning, and boosted Brent crude prices to more than $102/barrel before tumbling back to below $98/barrel in the late morning.…
Robert Murray http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1449653Gasoline prices continued to drop along with oil. There is some hope that the collapse could help the US economy in the second half as Americans continue to contend with persistently high…
Even though solar PV stocks have plunged over the last 18 months, there is a ray of hope in the sector according to a report at Bloomberg. China’s five largest solar panel makers expect…