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Nov 30-Dec 4: Solar Tops Dow, NASDAQ

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:00:58 GMT

Decent jobs report bolsters week... While the Dow struggled to a small gain this week, the NASDAQ was up 2.6% and the 20 Solar Stocks Index gained over 30 points to finish at 413.99,[More...]

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:19:07 GMT

As expected, Bank of America (BAC) will repurchase its $45 billion TARP preferreds, funded in part by an additional $18.8 billion in "common stock equivalents", $4.0 billion in asset sales, and $1.7 billion in restricted stock issued to employees in lieu of cash bonuses.[More...]

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:21:30 GMT

Good morning. Stocks tanked in the last half-hour on Thursday and while the major news outlets attributed the decline to either profit taking or some trepidation in front of this morning's big Jobs report, we'd like to offer a little more substantial reason for the 85 point dive on an otherwise subdued day of trading.[More...]

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:14:41 GMT

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet declined by $15 billion to $2,183 billion from the prior week, after the Fed presumably offloaded $2.7 billion in MBS: this is the first time since QE started that MBS holdings have declined. If anyone can tell us just who the idiots are who bought MBS from the Fed (and at what price), and who the even greater idiots are who are supposed to believe this, please send us an email.[More...]

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:38:07 GMT

China isn’t just leading the global economic recovery – it’s lapping the field.[More...]

Interesting Stat: How Much Private Sector GDP Is From Construction And Real Estate?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:15:56 GMT

Back in June, we discussed commercial real estate at length following attendance at a large real estate conference in NYC. Our tone was cautious and one question we wondered about was the percentage of GDP that real estate represents. We actually came across the answer back in August and meant to share then, but didn't get to it. Since the question/topic remains highly relevant to considering the potential negative economic drag from depressed real estate activity, we're sharing now -- the following table is from an 8/28/09 NYTs article, "Construction That Fueled Growth in the Sun Belt Slows":[More...]

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:59:02 GMT

The credit crunch crisis of confidence which we appear to be crawling out of even though the debt and equity markets catapulted themselves higher earlier this year could be similarly argued to be a crisis that started in the credit markets which crunched confidence around the world as it could a collapse in confidence in the value of the securities investors held which corrupted the credit markets causing them to cease funding.[More...]

Grab Some Northern Exposure With EWC

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:39:42 GMT

Emerging markets are captivating investors again, but tidy profits aren’t always far away. Placing your bets on well-established global markets can also prove rewarding. That's why we're looking at Canada.[More...]

Unemployment Struggling To Turn A Corner As Job Losses Mount In November

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:20:20 GMT

U.S. job losses in the private sector slowed in November but still exceeded economists’ projections, a report by payroll-processing firm Automatic Data Processing (Nasdaq: ADP) indicated yesterday (Wednesday).[More...]

Why Barrick Closed Their Gold Hedge

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:15:14 GMT

It sure looks like gold is going to close above $1,200 an ounce today in New York. And large open market purchases from central banks in China, India and Russia are only helping the price surge more. (Just one year ago, some of these same central banks were actually selling gold in an attempt to fill an annual 10,000-ton supply gap.)[More...]

Ethanol Bounces Back After Tough Year

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:46:00 GMT

Oct. 25--STEAMBOAT ROCK -- Cheaper corn, rising oil prices and smarter business decisions are powering ethanol's road to recovery.
The state's largest ethanol producer at the time, VeraSun Energy Corp., filed for bankruptcy last Halloween and one of the smallest farmer-owned plants, Pine Lake Corn Processors, near Steamboat Rock, followed suit two months later.
A combination of record-high corn and low ethanol prices crippled the industry.

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Nov 30-Dec 4: Solar Tops Dow, NASDAQ

The Deep, Inner Meaning Of Bank of America's (BAC) TARP Repayment

Forget Yesterday, It's All About Jobs

Fed Balance Sheet Declines By $15 Billion After Improbable Reduction In MBS, Excess Reserves, Monetary Base Hit Record

China Will Continue To Drive The Global Economic Recovery In 2010

Interesting Stat: How Much Private Sector GDP Is From Construction And Real Estate?

Credit Market Overview: Dec 3, 2009

Grab Some Northern Exposure With EWC

Unemployment Struggling To Turn A Corner As Job Losses Mount In November

Why Barrick Closed Their Gold Hedge

Ethanol Bounces Back After Tough Year

Local Ethanol Production Has Successes, Failures

Oil Refining Giant Finds Its Raw Material in Cornfields: Valero Says the Jump into Ethanol Production Reflects Market Reality

VeraSun Auctioning Tilton Land As Part of Bankruptcy

Guardian Energy Buys Former VeraSun Plant

Plants Pool to Create New Owner: ' We're Not Sexy Wall Street Bankers'

Sold!: May Be Running By Mid-to-Late Fall

Commerce Secretary: Energy Entrepreneurs Will Lift U.S.

Bumpy Road to Economic Recovery, Executives Say

Sunoco Wins Bid for N.Y. Ethanol Plant

The Giant Awakens to Solar Power While America Sleeps Evolution Solar Grows Roots in China

Energy Conversion Devices Reports Revenues of $316 Million and Earnings Per Share of $0.29 for Fiscal Year 2009

SectorWatch.Biz Issues MarketStats on Innovative Power Technology Companies SLAT, PPO, ABAT, SNE, ENER and VLNC

InvestorSoup.com Issues Technical Trading Overview for First Solar Inc.

SectorWatch.biz Issues MarketStats on Innovative Power Technology Companies SLAT, PPO, ABAT, SNE, ENER and VLNC

Energy Conversion Devices Completes Merger With Solar Integrated Technologies

Energy Conversion Devices to Announce Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 Results On Thursday, August 27, 2009

BenchmarkJournal.Com Free Analyst Review for ENER, GENZ, DLTR, IDTI, COST and EGLE

Johns Manville's E3 Company and Energy Conversion Devices to Deliver Photovoltaic Systems for Commercial Roofs

EVSO: China Grows While the World Contracts

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