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Short Sellers Still Target Solar Stocks (FSLR, SPWR, ESLR, CSIQ, AKNS, HOKU)

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These are not all of the solar stocks we cover on NASDAQ, but as you can see the short selling against these stocks has increased as of mid-June despite the high energy costs. Here we ran the short interest for our main names in solar power NASDAQ such as First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQL FSLR), SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR), Evergreen Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR), Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), Akeena Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: AKNS), and Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU).

We broke these down by the stock with the date and we showed a comparison of both the May 30 date and what the related changes were at that date as well. 

First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR)
AS OF DATE    Short Int.    Change
06/13/2008      4,183,584      20.16%      
05/30/2008      3,481,565     -1.03%    

SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR)
AS OF DATE    Short Int.    Change
06/13/2008      16,804,676      6.46%
05/30/2008      15,784,486      3.63%

Evergreen Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR)
AS OF DATE    Short Int.    Change
06/13/2008      29,219,334      20.92%
05/30/2008       24,164,046     9.23%

Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ)
AS OF DATE    Short Int.    Change
06/13/2008      4,634,187      8.23%
05/30/2008      4,281,924     -0.68%

Akeena Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: AKNS)
AS OF DATE    Short Int.    Change
06/13/2008      3,718,884      10.32%
05/30/2008      3,371,093       2.77%

Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU)
AS OF DATE    Short Int.    Change
06/13/2008      3,031,978      10.80%
05/30/2008      2,736,325     -19.45%

Jon C. Ogg
June 25, 2008

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