Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Hurricane Watch: Oil, Natural Gas Evacuations Start as Gustav Advances

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Oil was trading at $118.35 +$2.08 for the day and nat gas was $8.557 +.17 From Bloomberg: U.S. oil and natural-gas companies have begun evac...

The Biggest Story of the Day: Xcel/Cuomo (XEL)

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And so far, none of the bloggers recognize it. From Legal Newsline : ..."This landmark agreement sets a new industry-wide precedent tha...

Xcel Energy, New York Attorney General Resolve Carbon Disclosure Issues (XEL)

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From MarketWatch: Xcel Energy and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo today announced an agreement that resolves greenhouse gas di...

Utilities and pipelines good during downturns and good during recoveries (BRK.A; TRP)

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Tell it to Warren Buffett.* From the Financial Post: Utility and pipeline stocks not only outperform during economic downturns but stock mar...

Hurricane Watch: Waiting for Gustav

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Oil is trading at $117.97 up $1.70 and natural gas is trading at $8.464 +0.077. They are up $2.55 and $0.212 from our second post yesterday...

Solarfun: Not so much (SOLF)

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The stock is trading at $17.01 down $1.93 (10.19%) From RTT News: Solarfun Power Drops In Pre-Market Following Quarterly Results Following t...

Solar: MEMC Elec- Stock should be trading closer to $70 - Merrill Lynch (WFR)

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From Notable Calls : - Merrill Lynch is out positive on MEMC Elec (NYSE:WFR) this morning noting they expect the co to report that 3Q is pr...

Jim Cramer, Nancy Pelosi and T. Boone Pickens Walk Into a Bar (CLNE)

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Oh sure, now that the story is in the Wall Street Journal ... Truth be told, Cramer has been beating the drum on natural gas for a month now...

Explosive growth reshuffles Top 10 solar ranking

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From Solid State Technology: The explosion of photovoltaics production across the globe completely reshuffled the top companies in Nomura Se...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

GT Solar Reports Record Numbers as Law Firm Attempts to Poop in Punch Bowl (SOLR)

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The stock was up 52 cents (3.84 %) before the release and is down $2.07 (14.71%) in aftermarket trade. From BusinessWire (@4:05 EDT): GT Sol...

Hurricane Watch: Gustav Slams into Haiti. And: What history tells us about where Gustav's headed

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First up, Wunderblog: Hurricane Gustav plowed into Haiti as a Category 1 hurricane with 90 mph winds around 1 pm AST today. The encounter w...

Clean Coal's $2 Mil. Ad Blitz and Vestas' $100 Mil. Campaign

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I knew I should have gone into advertising. From the Center for Public Integrity: Convention-goers in Denver and St. Paul won’t be ...

Waiting for the Sun (SOLF)

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From MarketBeat: The frenzy that surrounds the earnings season has died down, but investors can still get their fix with individual names, s...

What’s Up With The China Solar Stocks?

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Eric Savitz must be in front of a screen. From Tech Trader Daily: I’m not at all sure if there’s a catalyst for this, but China-based solar ...

Green on the Screen-Earnings Heads Up: GT Solar (SOLR)

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GT Solar was the little IPO that couldn't. After being priced at $16.50 the stock immediately went to a discount, trading as low as $9.3...

Hurricane Watch: Wunderblog Gives Gustav 60% Chance of "Significant" Disruption of U.S. Oil & Gas

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First the pull-quote, then the context. Oil is trading at $115.42 + 0.31, nat gas is at $8.252 + 0.427. From Wunderblog: ...Once in the Gulf...

Why we Didn't get too Excited about the Sunpower/PG&E Deal (PCG; SPWR)

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On August 15 you couldn't swing a dead cat (anyone know where that term comes from?) without seeing the Optisolar, Sunpower, PG&E ne...

Could a big earthquake reduce Manhattan to rubble someday?

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From Scientific American: A new study from the Earth Institute at Columbia University says there’s more seismic activity around the Big Ap...

Energy Conversion Devices: Cowen out positive on the name (ENER)

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From Notable Calls: Cowen is out positive on Energy Conversion Devices (NASDAQ:ENER ) saying they expect Q4 EPS to meet or beat our 20c ENER...

Gustav now a hurricane. Why all the hype?

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From the Houston Chronicle's SciGuy: Taking advantage of the warm northern Caribbean Sea waters , Gustav continued organizing overnight ...