Reuters: Small banks are worried that new regulations will hurt their earnings. Reuters: A judge approved the sale of GM assets. Reuters: Rio Tinto (RTP) sold its food packaging assets for $1.2 billion. Reuters: …
China is scouring the world for oil as its expanding economy needs more crude to fuel its transportation and infrastructure needs. The world’s most populous nation is close to a deal to loan Brazil…
The notion of regulating risk and behavior on Wall St. was given another stunning blow today as the FT reported that one rogue broker cause a spike in oil prices earlier this week. The…
This morning we caught an alert for volume and trading activity at VSInvestor.com in Beacon Power Corporation because of a government award of a loan commitment. This has now been confirmed. Beacon announced that…
JPMorgan has decided to make some key solar ratings changes this morning. The firm is cautious on the valuation of some in the position of a declining market trend right now, but there are…
The weekly oil inventories data came out of the U.S. Department of Energy at 10:30 AM EST this morning. Crude Oil was already much higher on worries that draw-downs were taking their toll on…
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) has signed a new agreement with SAEM Srl, a primary system integrator within the PV sector, to build five one-megawatt PV plants in the Apulia region of Italy. …
China may invest $10 billion in Brazil state oil company, Patrobras, on terms that the Latin American company cannot help but find attractive. In advance of the investment, China has secured 100,000 to 160,000…
Oil exploration and refining companies are natural enemies of alternative energy. Wind power, nuclear power, clean coal, and solar could all undermine the value of crude in world markets. Oil companies have a great…
Oil jumped above $70 a barrel as Nigerian rebels attacked a Royal Dutch Shell facility. It is one of a number of such incidents in a nation that is the 12th largest supplier of…
Short Selling looked higher in some of the key solar and alternative energy stocks. Of the top 7 solar stock plays we track by market cap, six of the seven saw increased short selling…
Goldman Sachs has made several key upgrades and downgrades this morning in the utility sector and in the oil patch. While the utility sector was raised to attractive, some of the other calls seem…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is going to be down early this morning after Canaccord Adams decided to downgrade the stock. The brokerage firm decided to cut the rating to Hold from Buy, and…
Is America’s consumption of gasoline critical to the price of crude? The issue will be tested this 4th of July. If US drivers plan to stay off the roads with gas prices pushing $2.70,…
Investing in solar and alternative energy stocks comes with many risks. We have often referred to many of these companies as being essentially nothing more than very leveraged speculative oil investments because when energy…