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These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Started as Buy at...
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Clean energy funds first sprung up in about 2005, with the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Fund (NYSE: PBW). Others have followed, but for the most part these funds have fairly low assets under...
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Today’s alternative energy news is solar, solar, solar…. We have an acquisition in the solar PV project development business. A lawsuit has been filed in California to halt the construction of a...
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Solar stocks have been wickedly punishing for many shareholders after the oil bubble of 2008 popped and then again during the recession. A new dal may have just reset the value as a deal came that...
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It is time for our daily review of the alternative energy sector. The pollsters at Gallup asked US citizens in the last week of March if they thought US nuclear power plants were or were not safe. A...
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Here’s our daily report on developments in solar and wind power, alternative fuels, and other news related to the alternative energy sector. Germany’s largest maker of solar PVs has warned that...
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The possible nuclear power reactor meltdown in Japan is killing anything tied to nuclear energy today. As with most events, there is generally a silver lining elsewhere. It just so happens that...
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JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) and MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) are offering some positive support to each other after announcing a joint venture agreement. The J-V...
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S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (28 JAN -03 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 03Feb11 Close Price 28Jan11 Market Cap($Mil) MEMC Electronic Materials Inc WFR 21.9 13.41 11.00 3049.8 Electronic...
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MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) is leading solar related shares higher after its earnings. The irony is that MEMC is perhaps one of the larger disappointments in the world of solar...
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US manufacturing sector employment peaked in the late 1970’s at more than 19 million jobs. Since then, the decline in employment has fallen to a projected low of less than 12 million jobs,...
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Forecasts for solar energy growth in 2011 generally noted that manufacturing capacity would increase and that margins would decrease. The outlook did not project a loss for solar energy players, but...
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A Chinese supplier of solar PV products has purchased a 70% stake in a US project development firm, marking the first entry of a Chinese solar provider into the project development business. LDK...
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The state of California has mandated that a third of its electricity come from renewable sources by the end of the decade. This has caused something of a boomlet in solar thermal and solar...
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Oil is off the peak again, the markets went soft, and governments are going to have to review spending on all fronts… including most subsidies. All of this aligns rather poorly for the solar...
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