It’s no secret the oil refining margins have been dropping like a rock for the past few quarters. When pump prices began to approach a US-wide average of about $4/gallon, US drivers started changing…
Changing World Technologies Inc. filed yesterday for an initial public offering. While a share count and price range are not indicated, the filing is for up to $100 million in securities. A ticker signal…
We have been reviewing which publicly traded energy companies have lost the most value in the past year, and we are breaking these down by sector and by sub-sector. While composing this list is…
Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) is set to report earnings after the close. What is odd is that the company might be given a total pass over this last quarter and perhaps even one…
VeraSun Energy (NYSE:VSE) reported second quarter 2008 earnings before the market opened today. The company’s revenues soared by 499% to $1.015 billion, compared with $170 million for the same period in 2007. Net earnings…
With the price of crude down from over $145 to about $115, all of the talk is that the rising price of oil has been contained by falling demand and a better dollar. Almost…
After the Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) earnings report, we listened to the conference call and the question and answer session from analysts to get a better handle on the quarter and what is…
Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ:CPST) has posted its quarterly results, and traders on Wall Street are somehwat mixed on the data. If traders focus merely on the results in the quarter that went to the…
Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) is set to report earnings after the close today. Once again we caution that with many analysts new in covering this stock and with the size of the company…
Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ:PEIX) led off its second quarter financial report with higher sales number. Unfortunately, the company also had to report earnings, or the lack of earnings. For the quarter, Pacific reported a net…
OPEC has taken full advantage of the free market system. Members are on a path to earning nearly $1.3 trillion this year as oil prices stay relatively high into the second half of the…
Russia has its own mysterious reasons for invading Georgia, one of its neighbors to the South, and there is some speculation that it would like to take on other small nation states to secure…
On June 3, 2008, Smith International (NYSE:SII) and W-H Energy Services (NYSE:WHQ) entered into a definitive merger agreement that would have Smith paying $56.10 in cash and 0.48 common share for each W-H share…
With oil down to about $120 a barrel it is easy to forget that the dynamics of supply and demand still favor higher prices. That may not be true today, but it will not…
There’s no good news coming from Western Refining (NYSE:WNR) today. The company reported second quarter earnings of $8.2 million (EPS of $0.12) versus $155 million and EPS of $2.29 for the same period a…