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To: Return to Sender who wrote (47573)	4/24/2010 10:38:52 PM
From: Return to Sender	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95420

From Briefing.com: 4:30 pm : The Dow closed on its highs for the year, and finished higher for its eighth consecutive week, closing on its 200-week moving average. U.S. equities initially took their cue from Europe as investors responded positively to Greece seeking aid from the IMF and European Union. News that Greece requested $55 billion from the EU and IMF helped improve the mood of investors following last night's after-hours session, when it had appeared several companies would be weaker this morning. Traders sold the news of better-than expected earnings from market heavyweights Microsoft (MSFT 30.96, -0.43) and Amazon (AMZN 143.63, -6.46), investors gained confidence as the selling stayed contained, and stocks started rallying around midday to close at both session highs and 19-month highs. Energy shares were the best performers, gaining 2.3%. Schlumberger (SLB 72.68, +4.50) led the sector showing gains of almost 7%. Higher oil prices helped as crude closed near $85.10 in electronic trading. Meanwhile, telecom shares continued to lag the broader market and closed down 0.2%. A downgrade of Verizon (VZ 29.05, -0.23) put pressure on shares in the telecom space. Volume on the NYSE closed above its 200-day average for the third straight session. Economic data released today had little sustainable impact on the direction of the market in early trading. A surprise spike in new home sales for March of 26.9% month-over-month to an annualized rate of 411,000 units led to a short rally in stocks, but they later pulled back. Durable goods orders for March also had little influence on the market's initial direction. Total orders fell 1.3%, which is a negative surprise since the consensus had called for a 0.2% increase. Excluding transportation, durable goods orders for March spiked 2.8%, which was considerably stronger than the 0.7% increase that had been widely forecast. Orders less transportation for February were revised higher to reflect a 1.7% increase. Advancing Sectors: Energy (+2.3%), Materials (+1.3%), Health Care (+1.1%), Utilities (+0.8%), Industrials (+0.7%), Consumer Discretionary (+0.5%), Tech (+0.5%), Financials (+0.4%) Declining Sectors: Telecom (-0.2%), Consumer Staples (-0.1%) DJ30 +69.99 NASDAQ +11.08 NQ100 +0.5% R2K +1.0% SP400 +1.0% SP500 +8.61 NASDAQ Adv/Vol/Dec 1702/2.43 bln/991 NYSE Adv/Vol/Dec 2161/1.21 bln/869

To: Return to Sender who wrote (47573)	4/25/2010 8:54:21 AM
From: dvdw©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95420

"Now oil is still expensive, if you ask me, but whatever barriers to competition may have been in place for one solar related company to another there is simple too much capacity and too little demand for stock prices to most likely ever reach previous peaks." hmmm. Barriers to competition are not being waged on the capacity front. Barriers to competition are being installed on the Inertia front. Here is a simple fact about solar that matters more than anything else. Solar has a Free cost of goods consumed, the current high prices for the investment to process these free cog consumed, is admittedly high, and by the maneuvering we see at the periphery, like who is structured to take over the roofing industry, where market share will shift from current commodities, to newer energy adding commodities tells a whole different stroy than the one being projected. Solar is being made for durability & energy production as value added utility. Its characteristics are part of a multi valued reference space, therefore any analysis of Solar as a single valued item, is inadequate for the task at hand. you really cant tell the story about solar on this thread because the positioning which indicates solars trajectory is occurring outside the space and subject limitations of this threads focus. Name the single biggest company whose already made the move to capture Solar revenue by restructuring operations to enable its place at the table of ignoble largesse? If you & jacob combined, cant do it by end of day, you really dont know what you are talking about.