Solar Power's Growing Pains -- Part II (RealMoney by TheStreet.com) and TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday (TradingMarkets.com)

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City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 11/26/2008 - Investing Picks industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. Part I of this article looked at the recent sharp rise and fall of the solar sector and its peers, looking forward two to three years to identify future trends in pricing, demand and what it takes to survive the coming industry shakeout. In Part II of this series, we are looking for some of the likely winners and losers in the fast-changing industry.


As I noted last time, the Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy ETF acts as the best proxy for the solar sector. The charm of owning the TAN ETF is that you have broad-based sector exposure and don't need to make any company-specific bets. The downside is that the ETF will be dragged down by the industry laggards, which, as I noted in Part I, may not have the capital, market share or pricing power to survive the next six to 12 months, which could be a tough time for the industry. [Read the full article]

Exchange-traded funds continue to be among the more popular asset classes for short term trading, hedging and long term investing. With a wide range of choices - from industry sectors, to national markets, to inverse funds that allow traders to both bet against certain markets as well as to hedge longer term positions, it is little surprise to see exchange-traded funds growing as a percentage of daily trading volumes.

Here are 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Friday.Among the most widely traded exchange-traded funds is the SPDRS Select S&P 500 ETF, SPY (AMEX: SPY), which is used both for short-term trading as well as for investing for cost-conscious, active investors.If you think oil is not likely to remain below $50 a barrel, trading or investing in the ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas Index ETF, DIG (NYSE: DIG). [Read the full article]

Stocks moved back and forth for most of the day, but shortly after news broke that Congress was unable to come up with an agreement on a bailout package for U.S. automakers, sellers emerged to drive the markets down deeper into bear market territory.

The Dow closed lower by 444.99. The Nasdaq Composite lost 70.30. And the S&P 500 fell by 54.14.Here are 7 Stocks You Need to Know for Friday.Reporting earnings Thursday after the market closed, Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) beat analyst estimates by six cents. The Short Term PowerRating for DELL is 5.Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is stepping up its efforts to forge a deal with Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) whereby in exchange for a stake in Yahoo!, Time Warner would hand over its AOL advertising business to the Internet search company. The Short Term PowerRatings for YHOO and TWX is 5 and 6 respectively.Automakers failed to win support for a much-sought after bridge loan from Congress on Thursday. [Read the full article]

Grand Canyon Education took a deep breath and plunged into the Nasdaq Thursday. When it bobbed to the surface, it was very near where it started.What splash it made was caused mainly by its solitude. The for-profit school ended the longest dry spell in the IPO market since 1975, according to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital.

The last entrant was tech company Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX), which debuted on Aug. 8.It wasn't a smooth road to the market. Grand Canyon first filed to go public on May 13, and last month set its range at 18 to 20 for each of its 10.5 million shares. Then, on Nov. 6, it cut the range to 16 to 18. On Wednesday, it docked the price again to 12 to 14.When the IPO finally priced, it was at the low end of that range. And the price still dropped. [Read the full article]

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