Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Business Day In Global Warming (LDK, CPST, USU, FPL, ZAAP, FTEK, HVAG)

From 24/7 Wall Street:

LDK Solar Co. (NYSE:LDK) stock fell 7% to $30.05 in the last hour of trading today after yesterday's earnings, but it was mainly a lackluster guidance. This was actually up in after-hours trading yesterday. This solar player had already warned us about the same issues back in January, so this shouldn't have been that big of a surprise.

Capstone Turbine (NASDAQ: CPST) scored another small gain of 2% or 3% before coming off at the end of the day, after a huge run yesterday. This remains our own top pick of the small emerging alternative energy players, and this now represents a 50% gain for our "10 Stocks Under $10" weekly newsletter sent out every Monday.

FPL Group Inc. (NYSE: FPL) had a power outage today in much of South Florida for what was being reported as "a loss of off-site power" without the cause being elaborated on besides workers taking the nuclear reactor down....MORE