June 14-18: Dow, NASDAQ, Solar Climb Again

Asian economy on upswing

Remarks from Caterpillar evidently encouraged investors outlook for the Asian economy, according to a report in today's MarketWatch. However, continued concern about European's debt problems, although out of panic mode from weeks ago, still helped moderate gains.

The Dow finished 258 points ahead of last Friday to finish at 10450.64, a 2.3% gain. NASDAQ composite was also up about 66 points to end today at 2309.08, a nearly a 3% gain. Stocks in the 20 Solar Stock Index (20SSI) jumped over 24 points finishing the week at 352.06, over a 7% increase. Major winners in solar were First Solar, SunPower and Suntech.

20 Solar Stocks Index Week of June 14-18, 2010

	Monday Open	Friday Close	Up/Down	% Change	Close 1/5/09*	Close 3/6/09**
Dow Jones DJIA	10211.07	10450.64	+239.57	+2.346%	8952.89	6626.95
NASDAQ	2243.60	2309.80	+66.2	+2.950	1628.03	1293.85
Akeena Solar AKNS	.81	.76	-.05	-6.578	2.28	.61
Amtel Systems ASYS	8.78	9.07	+.29	+3.302	4.00	2.73
Applied Materials AMAT	12.69	13.34	+.65	+5.122	10.67	8.70
Canadian Solar CSIQ	10.38	11.79	+1.41	+13.58	7.00	3.0601
ECD (UniSolar) ENER	4.66	4.75	+.09	+1.931	29.33	17.45
Entech Solar ENSL.OB	.1350	.15	+.015	+11.11	.28	.23
Evergreen Solar ESLR	.85	.8471	-.0029	-.3423	3.60	1.03
First Solar FSLR	107.27	123.68	+16.51	+15.29	157.80	108.49
GT Solar Int. SOLR	5.45	5.91	+.46	+8.440	4.00	4.02
JA Solar JASO	4.79	5.04	+.25	+5.219	5.09	1.91
Kyocera KYO	86.90	87.02	+.12	+.1380	71.87	54.21
LDK Solar LDK	5.67	6.18	+.51	+8.994	14.84	4.40
MEMC Elect. WFR	10.78	11.76	+.98	+9.090	15.76	13.68
Renesola SOL	5.82	6.49	+.67	+11.51	5.15	2.1201
Satcon SATC	2.56	2.74	+.18	+7.031	1.60	1.23
SolarFun SOLF	8.11	8.21	+.10	+1.233	6.12	2.30
SunPower SPWRA	13.40	14.86	+1.46	+10.89	45.13	23.39
SunTech STP	9.91	10.13	+.22	+2.219	13.55	5.34
Trina Solar TSL	18.56	18.80	+.24	+1.293	10.09	7.23
Yingli YGE	10.27	10.54	+.27	+2.629	7.25	3.888
20SSI Weekly Cumulative:	Previous 327.80	Current 352.06	Change +24.26/+7.4%	Avg Stock +5.743%***	1/05/09* 415.41	3/06/09** 266.01

* The starting date of the 20 Solar Stock Index (20SSI).
** The Concensus "new" bull market began on Monday, March 9, 2009.
*** Starting 6/11/10: In order to arrive at a truer stock gain/loss percentage, stocks with the highest percentage gain and worst drop are eliminated from the average.
NOTE: All above stocks have market capitalization of $100M+ except Akeena Solar, Amtel Systems
and Entech Solar. This listing is strictly informational and implies neither endorsement or disapproval of any stock listed. Comments are always welcome.