Month: November 2009

links for 2009-11-19

First Solar Exec Gaffney Leaves; Profit Hit On Severance – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com (tags: First_Solar cadmium_telluride earnings) Housing Slump May Worsen Next Year, Not Get Better – CNBC.com Sales of existing homes will peak in the final quarter of 2009, then begin a year-long slide, which is likely to be a sharp one, … Read more

Reloading the GOOG Post-Earnings Trade

When I examined the trading patterns in Google’s stock (GOOG) between earnings reports, I found little consistency for forming a trading strategy. For October’s earnings cycle, I chose to play one of the few promising historical patterns: 67% of the times that GOOG opened up in response to earnings, the maximum close until the next … Read more

First Solar and China’s Empty City of Ordos

In early September, First Solar (FSLR) signed a deal with Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China for a major solar farm project whose 4 phases will run until 2019. This week, FSLR and Ordos City signed a “Cooperation Framework Agreement” which… “…spells out additional project details and local support that advance the development of the 2 … Read more