Editor's Note: The following article was written by Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeff Saut. It has been reproduced with permission for the benefit of the Minyanville community.‘Tis the season... except in this case we haven’t quite yet entered the Christmas season. However we have entered the best six months of the year for the equity markets. Clearly history demonstrates that the November through April periods have on average shown superior stock market performance to that of the May through October half of the year.As our South African friend Dr. Prieur du Plessis notes “(Since 1950) the ‘good’ six-month period ...

A123 Systems Inc. prices 28.1 million shares at $13.50 each, raising $378 million ahead of its stock market debut on the Nasdaq on Thursday.

A123 Systems could attain a market capitalization of nearly $1 billion when it goes public later this month.

The wind energy sector is starting to take off and investors can get in on some alternative companies with big potential.

While the U.S. government and electricity producers get ready to spend hundreds of billions to upgrade the nation's power lines and electricity infrastructure, the so-called smart grid may not be clever enough to escape economic uncertainty.

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Fiscal 2009 Forecasts Reaffirmed

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CSR- ZELRI Accelerates Production of 1.65 MW Wind Turbines for the Chinese Market