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Short interest among the leading U.S. solar-related stocks shrank in the final two weeks of August. Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ: AEIS), First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) and GT Advanced Technologies (NASDAQ: GTAT) saw the largest downswings in the number of their shares sold short. Short...

Among the leading U.S. solar-related stocks, First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies (NASDAQ: GTAT) and SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) saw the largest upswings in the number of their shares sold short in the first two weeks of August. However, short interest dwindled in Advanced Energy...

Among the leading U.S. solar-related stocks, First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies (NASDAQ: GTAT) and SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) saw the largest percentage changes in the number of shares sold short in the first two weeks of July. While short sellers shied away from SunPower (...

Among the leading U.S. solar-related stocks, First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR), SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) and SunPower Holdings (NASDAQ: SPWR) saw the largest percentage increases in the number of shares sold short in the final two weeks of June. Short sellers shied away from Advanced Energy Industries and...

U.S. stocks rose as investors and traders digested comments from the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve Open Committee announced that it will further taper its asset purchases by another $10 billion. The Fed is now committing towards purchasing $35 billion of assets per month. The Fed also...

U.S. stocks ended a four day rally which saw the S&P 500 hit historical all-time highs. However, during Wednesday's trading session the ten-year Treasury yield traded as low as 2.439 percent, the lowest level seen since June 2013. Volume remained below average during Wednesday's trading...

U.S. stocks fell after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq has risen for six consecutive trading sessions after new home sales data came in worse than expected. Investors could reasonably expect the markets to cool off after six straight days of gains especially as earnings continue to come in mixed....

U.S. stocks failed to rise in a choppy session which began the day in positive territory. Shares reversed and turned negative with technology stocks leading the way. The CBOE Volatility Index, also known as the "fear index" rose 3.9 percent to 14.57 despite economic data released today coming...

Shares of the following exchange traded funds are trading more than 15 percent higher than 90 days ago, and they are within 10 percent of their 52-week highs. This set of ETFs provides a peek at areas of investor interest early in the fourth quarter, with the uncertainty over the Federal...

When was the last time you did some research on some of those, “off the beaten path” names? Benzinga ran a screen of stocks with a market cap of at least $300 million that trade at least 200,000 shares on average. The below 10 stocks represent the biggest winners and losers from Wednesday that...

First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR), shares of which have been on a run since revised, upbeat guidance was announced in early April, is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2013 results Monday, May 6, after the markets close. Investors will be interested in whether First Solar has enough projects in the...

President Barack Obama’s proposed $3.8 trillion budget is designed to cut the deficit by $600 billion over 10 years, after factoring in the negation of cuts already enacted under the sequester according to The Associated Press. Depending on the framework of the final budget, some businesses...

Now that Suntech Power (NYSE: STP) is bankrupt, Wall Street is rethinking their perceptions on the solar industry—particularly companies like First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) and SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR). First the backstory. If you had a solar panel for every expert that got airtime in the financial...

The short interest in solar-related companies based in the United States was mixed in the latter two weeks of January. Though the number of shares sold short in SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) and SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR) grew between the January 15 and January 31 settlement dates, short interest in...

There is no doubt that the solar sector has taken its lumps of late. But the industry may be poised for a comeback. At least that appears to be the view of the Citigroup (NYSE: C) global solar sector research team. The analysts on the team announced in a research note Wednesday that they were...