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A Welcome Wagon Boost For First Solar
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has been battered and left for dead. Interestingly enough, the latest news flow has not been as bad and with shares above $14.50 the recovery is around 25% from its...
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China Boosts Solar Installation Goal by 2015 by 4x
The Chinese government has increased its planned installation of solar energy projects by 2015 from 5,000 megawatts to 21,000 megawatts. And at least one analyst expects the total to climb to more than...
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Reality Check: First Solar May Have Saved Solar Sector
What happens when you get an industry leader reporting earnings that are nowhere close to as bad as the market thought after a 90% drop in the share price? Not only does that sector leader rise, but...
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Blackstone $2 Billion Acquisition Ties in Solar and Home Automation
The Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) is going big into home automation, and we would note that there is a solar angle here as well. The private equity giant is paying a sum of $2 billion to acquire...
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Alternative Energy and Cleantech Picks and Pans for 2013
The alternative energy sector is supposed to be one of the great winners of the 2012 election outcome. After all, an Obama victory would indicate further government support for what are future power...
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First Solar Fallout Deals Crushing Blow to Speculative Solar Sector
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is leading shares lower this morning. The company has taken at least two severe analyst downgrades this morning. That is on the heels of a poor sales figure and guidance...
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First Solar Guidance Shocks — to the High Side
In the disaster zone known as the solar sector, virtually all the news has been bad for so long that anything that smells like good news is jumped on as an excuse to buy the shares. Then today, First...
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Six Alt-Energy and Solar ETFs Rocked by First Solar (FSLR, GEX, TAN, ICLN,...
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) did not just have a great day. The solar leader managed to have massive upside guidance due to a large project and this was on top of new efficiencies being announced...
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SunPower Earnings Good Enough to Support Whole Solar Sector
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) released its corporate earnings shortly before the close rather than after the close, and the result is that another big solar move higher may be underway. The company...
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Solar Stock Rally Nears 2007-2008 Craze: Time for a Reality Check?
The solar stocks are back on fire. The problem is that this feels a lot like 2008, without the super-high share prices making it feel like another 1999 dot-com bubble all over again. We wanted to...
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Five Long-Term Solar Energy Stock Survivors
The solar sector has seen its share of pain. In fact, many observers believe that the industry would not be able to operate without tax assistance and subsidies for the end-users buying the solar...
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Three Drivers Behind First Solar
First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) 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...
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J.P. Morgan: Only Three Solar Stocks to Buy and Own Now
With 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 their...
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Have Solar Stocks Sold Off Too Much?
If one sector is sensitive to market sell-offs or to lower and lower crude oil prices, it is the alternative energy sector — including solar energy. Well, the solar energy sector has had to face a dual...
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SunPower, First Solar YieldCo Lights Up Solar Stocks
In what can only be called a surprise move, SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) and First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) announced Monday evening that they are joining forces to create a yieldco from assets...
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Solar ETFs Not Chasing Vivint Deal
The acquisition of Vivint Solar Inc. (NYSE: VSLR) just is not having a broad spillover. Sure, some solar players rallied on the news, but the reality is that on a relative basis the solar exchange...
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After Years of Gains, Clean Energy Investment Is on the Decline
Call it global warming. Call it climate change. Maybe it’s a nuance, or maybe your political stance determines how you feel about this debate. 24/7 Wall St. has tracked investment in clean energy and...
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Why Paris Climate Accord Market Reactions in Coal, Solar, Renewables and Oil...
It’s official. President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord. The news was covered from multiple angles by the media, outside nations and even by corporate leaders. Many...
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