Oilsands Quest Inc. (AMEX: BQI) is seeing a positive reaction to news that the company entered into an agreement with Sprott Asset Management Co. for a private placement of 11,904,761 treasury shares of common…
Encana Corporation (NYSE: ECA) has announced that it is splitting the company into two pieces. The plan calls for the company to create an integrated oil company from both upstream and downstream assets, and…
JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) came out with earnings this morning of $0.14 EPS vs. First Call estimates of $0.11 on a 234% rise in revenues to $160 million vs. estimates of…
Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) has announced a contract award for its SunFab Performance Service™ program which would guarantee the performance cost and output of the Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Line. This is for…
Very few people drive down the miles-long highways and dirt roads in the middle of the country to see combines cut grain and fertilizer trucks spread chemicals. The picture is not monochromatic, at least…
Oil companies are not typically the stuff of break-up actions. What would be the purpose of knocking Exxon Mobil (XOM) or Conoco (COP) into two pieces? Some of the answer to that comes from…
This week is an extremely important week for solar stocks and alternative energy stocks. JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO), LDK Solar Co.Ltd. (NYSE: LDK), Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), and Yingli Green…
The US has plenty of problems with Venezuela’s mentally troubled dictator Hugo Chavez. The most recent confrontation has been over Chavez financing guerrillas in neighboring Columbia. While the two nations throw bricks at one…
Last month we reported on a triple whammy that hit Cheniere Energy Inc. (AMEX: LNG). Today, both Cheniere and its spin-off, Cheniere Energy Partners, LP (AMEX: CQP) gave their earnings report. Cheniere Energy Inc.…
In June 2006, Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE:APC) bought both Western Gas Resources and Kerr-McGee for a total of more than $23 billion. Last night, Anadarko announced that it had priced an IPO of 18.75 million…
Citigroup has initiated coverage on several of the solar stocks in new coverage this morning. There may be other stocks attached to this full report, but these are the three we have seen so…
The opinion of most oil analysts and economists is that OPEC will let prices go up and up. That may not be true Goldman Sachs has said oil could spike to $200 a barrel…
Venezuela president-for-life and psycho Hugo Chavez has been giving aid to rebels in neighboring Columbia. According to The Wall Street Journal "A cache of controversial computer files closely tying Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez to…
Colfax Corporation (NYSE: CFX) is seeing a huge reception after its hot IPO came to market today. This IPO priced its shares at $18.00 for an amount of 18,750,000 shares. This was above the…
El Paso Corporation (NYSE:EP) has reported earnings of $0.29 EPS on net income of $219 million and revenue of $1.269 billion for the first quarter of 2008. Analysts were expecting $0.30 EPS and revenue…