links for 2010-04-28

There's just no contest right now in terms of the bull herd mentality from the Street for solar stocks: all are charging after shares of Trina Solar…for Street analysts and investors who like the thesis that the truly vertically integrated, low cost Chinese solar companies are best positioned, Trina is left standing alone as the bull story.

Europe’s worsening debt crisis is intensifying pressure on policy makers to widen a bailout package beyond Greece after a cut in the nation’s rating to junk drove up borrowing costs from Italy to Portugal and Ireland.

Greece's debt has been downgraded to junk status by Standard & Poor's amid concern it was not able to take steps needed to tackle its economic crisis.

Multinational firms saddled with huge people costs are considering downsizing their permanent workforce and hiring sub-contractors on a scale never seen before – presenting an "enormous" management task for HR.