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By Todd Harrison The following is the "Public Statement" from the European Securities and Markets Authority: ESMA promotes harmonized regulatory action on short-selling in the EU European financial markets have been very volatile over recent weeks. The developments have raised concerns for...

Major U.S. Indexes are building upon yesterday's gains, on the heels of a 0.5% increase in retail sales – the biggest gain since March. August Consumer sentiment, however, plunged from 63.7 in July to 54.9 – its lowest level since May of 1980. The market seems to be shrugging off the consumer...

France, Italy, Spain and Belgium announced that they are introducing restrictions on short selling in a fight against market volatility that they say is being caused by the abusive spread of false rumors. French banking stocks took a hit earlier this week as rumors spread that the banks' financial...

Stifel Nicolaus has lowered the following price targets: EnerSys (NYSE: ENS) Buy, PT from $45 to $30 NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) Buy, PT from $29 to $25

DeVry Inc (NYSE: DV) was downgraded by Robert W. Baird from "outperform" to "neutral." DeVry's shares closed at $53.39 yesterday. DeVry's trailing-twelve-month ROA is 15.35%. Ardour Capital downgraded Enersys (NYSE: ENS) from “buy” to “accumulate.” ENS' stock closed at $20.74 yesterday. Enersys'...

Goldman Sachs is out with a research report on Ener1, Inc. (NYSE: HEV) and is lowering its price target to $1. It has a Neutral rating on shares. In a note to clients, Goldman Sachs writes, "Ener1 announced a delay in the release of its 10-Q, which we believe may be related to a potential prior-...

Shares of Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) are higher on the session by 8.97%, trading at $6.32. Overall call volume is now running at 4.41x the daily average, with 79% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 7,141 contracts have traded on the session so far. Yingli Green Energy Holding...

Point Roberts WA - August 11, 2011 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) Investorideas.com, a leader in cleantech investor research, reports on trading for renewable energy stocks for 10 th Aug. Solar stocks gave investors notable gains in another extremely volatile and down day of...

Axiom Capital Research provided color on First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) in a research report published today. Axiom Capital has previously given First Solar a Sell rating. In the report, Axiom Capital states, "While the market has shunned recent share sales by a number of FSLR executives, we see the...

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) announced that it has reduced its global workforce by approximately 30 percent and its annualized expenses by approximately $30 million since March 31, 2011. These reductions were made to better align costs with the company's revenue expectations,...

Wunderlich Securities reiterated its Sunpower (NASDAQ: SPWRA) Hold rating and $16 price target in a research report published today. In the report, Wunderlich Securities states, "SunPower (SPWRA) reported 2Q11 results after the close last night and, on a pro-forma basis, beat the top line and...

Auriga is out with its report today on SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWRA), maintaining Sell. In its report, Auriga writes, "In view of continued weakness in fundamentals and a subpar business model, we maintain our Sell rating and $14 price target." At the time of posting, shares of SPWRA were trading at $...

Ford (NYSE: F) and SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA) have teamed up to offer customers a rooftop solar system that will allow Focus Electric owners to "Drive Green for Life" by providing customers with enough clean, renewable energy to offset the electricity used to charge the vehicle. "Under the '...

Piper Jaffray reiterated its Neutral rating on SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWRA). At the same time, the rating agency left its price target on the company's stock unchanged at $20. On Tuesday, SPWRA closed the day at $16.24.

According to Citi, SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWRA) Hold rating is maintained. Citi said that although SPWRA is accelerating its cost reductions, it is really struggling to maintain pace with peers as CQ4:11 cost/W of $1.48 is well above where competitors are already pricing. “While we remain negative on...