courtesy of NetflixNetflix Inc.’s (NASDAQ: NFLX) video streaming service consumes a huge amount of broadband. No wonder. Video data takes up more network capacity than text or voice. And Netflix has more than 20…
thinkstockWith any other emerging technology, the cheaper it gets, the more it is accepted. Solar is the living proof of that. The good thing for investors that embrace a position of solar stocks in…
ThinkstockFirst Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is hosting its analyst day on Wednesday. We previously noted three drivers behind its 9% gain earlier in the trading day. Now we have a release from First Solar…
First Solar is surging at the same time that the company is conducting its analyst meeting. There are three issues running the stock higher,and there are implications elsewhere to consider as well.
Canadian Solar traded lower on Tuesday after the solar player announced a secondary offering. The company sold 2.6 million shares of common stock, as well as up to $100 million in convertible notes.
thinkstockBoardwalk Pipeline Partners L.P. (NYSE: BWP) was a total disaster on Monday, and it has 24/7 Wall St. wondering just how many other Master Limited Partnerships and trust structures in the oil and gas…
The cold start to winter has led to spiking power demand and prices. Based on a new research report from the Utility analysts at Credit Suisse, here are the top utilities stocks to buy…
American Electric Power reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Monday and affirmed its earlier earnings guidance for 2014.
Thinkstock24/7 Wall St. has been wondering just how long it would be before power companies in the Northeast and Midwest started asking — or demanding — that customers take efforts to conserve their electricity…
ThinkstockSterne Agee is out with its top picks in engineering and construction, which is the key infrastructure sector for the rest of us. The firm’s Mike Dudas and Patrick Uotila are expecting a favorable…
Alternative energy company Ocean Power Technologies was for all practical purposes gone and forgotten about until 2013. Now comes news that has the stock surging.
Several small but well-known companies have dumped the management structure that requires them to have a CEO. Could these actions, if effective, undermine the decades-long belief that business organizations have to be run by…
ThinkstockTry living without water for a few days. It is something you cannot cut back on or push out for very long. Investors have caught on that water is a must-own holding as well.…
ThinkstockSolarCity Corporation (NASDAQ: SCTY) is seeing its shares surge on Thursday due to very positive analyst coverage. The firm making the call was Robert W. Baird, upgrading the solar roof systems installer up to…
squirrel83, via Wikimedia CommonsAfter a ruling by the Height Committee of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat on Tuesday, New York City’s One World Trade Center is recognized as the tallest building…