Volume Spike Investor

We are seeing a huge gap up this morning in shares of SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR).  After the close yesterday we saw an announcement that SunPower and OptiSolar signed an 800MW photovltaic supply contract with PG&E in San Luis Obispo County in California.  What is interesting is that OptiSolar’s 550MW Topaz Solar Farm was taken [...]

Verenium Corp. (NASDAQ: VRNM) is spiking significantly higher in pre-market trading.  The company signed a biofuel production pact with BP plc (NYSE: BP).  The pact will lead to cellulosic ethanol production using non-food stocks and Verenium will receive $90 Million in funding from BP over the next 18 months.  The market cap before today’s spike [...]

Capstone turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) is seeing a flurry of volume today after a substantial drop today and after a 35% sell-off from recent highs.  Lazard Capital markets just came out defending the stock this morning.  Shares are up a little more than 2% at $2.97 at 10:01 AM EST.  Shares were up over 4% [...]

Gushan Environmental Energy Limited (NYSE: GU) is looking like a worse post-IPO by the day.  We are seeing a major drop  of over 20% at $9.62 in heavy volume.  As of 10:02 we have seen some 550,000 shares trade hands, and average daily volume is only about 1.1 million shares.  Despite today being a half [...]