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USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) is gapping lower this morning.  The company announced yesterday that an unexpected decline in sales at its separated work unit was going to cause it to miss annual projections previously offered.  It now sees net income at 425 to 440 million rather than prior projections of $25 to $45 million.  It [...]

Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) is seeing a battering this morning after its earnings are disappointing to the solar bulls.  The company posted $0.36 EPS (after $10+M charges) on a 24% revenue gain to $212.6M versus estimates from First Call of $0.47 and $206.8M (see below for better comparison). The company sees Q3 revenues of [...]

We are seeing a surge in the price of VeraSun Energy, Corp. (NYSE: VSE) has just opened up 10% or higher at $7.87 after the company beat earnings expectations. The ethanol producer posted $0.16 EPS vs. $0.02 estimates and revenues were up to $1.02 Billion vs. $920M estimates. At 9:33 AM EST we have seen [...]

We are seeing a downward volume surge in Zoltek Companies Inc. (ZOLT) this morning.  The company’s stock had already fallen hard Monday after RBC went very cautious ahead of earnings, but then earnings came out.  Earnings were down 54% down to $2.3 million net income on an 11% revenue gain to $45M.  The company saw [...]

Rentech, Inc. (AMEX: RTK) is seeing a major surge today.  It hasn’t run on current news, but rather on news that is about to occur.  The company makes ultra-clean synthetic fuel, and the company si going to be featured and interviewed on CNBC tonight by Larry Kudlow.  With airline jet fuel at such high prices [...]

American Superconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSC) is seeing a surge in pre-market trading this morning.  While it has already traded 100,000 shares in the pre-market hours with about 30 minutes to open it is actually a bit surprising that it hasn’t traded more volume than this when you see the price move. You can see the [...]