Cash Cow Atlantic Power Corp (TSX: ATP-U, OTC: ATPWF) has come under heavy selling today without any relevant news or material change in the company’s condition. Read More

US stocks plummeted into the red today, as speculation over additional writedowns and losses in the financial sector weighed heavily on investor sentiment. Concerns about a weakening US economy and its implications for consumer businesses likewise contributed to the gloom. Read More

There’s always something that’s going up, even in the worst economic and market times. The key is to continually poke and prod to find that something. Read More

The soaring cost of food isn’t just hitting families in the US; it’s hitting everyone around the world. Prices have risen so much that, this month, delegates from nearly all nations attended a United Nations-sponsored summit in Rome to discuss the issues of supply and demand and solutions for controlling prices. Read More

Rising costs and restrained prices: That’s the deadly formula now crimping corporate earnings across the board. Among the happy exceptions are owners and builders of vital infrastructure, particularly the US power grid. Read More

Since 2000, global natural gas consumption has surged by 18 percent, nearly double the growth in oil demand. Even more impressive: Global trade in gas has soared by 45 percent. Read More

What you hear or read about value investing tends to focus on stocks so beaten down that the guy touting them thinks they can’t get any cheaper. But there’s often a reason why something is so cheap. Read More

Verizon Communications’ $28.1 billion takeover of Alltel Corp cheered the market, and for good reason. It catapulted the company to the No. 1 position in American wireless by adding well-run systems at a bargain price. Read More

The strength in US coal exports continues to surprise to the upside, sending coal prices to fresh highs. A year ago, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecast total US coal exports of less than 50 million short tons for 2008. In early June, the EIA revised its prediction upward to 76.5 million short tons, more than 50 percent above year-ago expectations. Read More

Demand for solar is dependant primarily on government subsidies, but US subsidies are set to expire at the end of this year, and several foreign countries are scheduled to revise their solar subsidies. Uncertainty remains as to WHETHER NEW SUBSIDIES WILL BE GENEROUS ENOUGH to further growth. Read More