For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL - April 29, 2009 - Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Cree, Inc. (CREE), General Electric (GE), B/E Aerospace (BEAV), Honeywell (HON) and Anadys (ANDS).

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Here are highlights from Tuesday's Analyst Blog:

CREE: The Lights Are On

The global movement to energy-efficient lighting is prompting lighting companies and consumers to look at other options. Therefore, lighting will be the strongest end market for Cree, Inc. (CREE), likely followed by video displays and notebooks. Yield improvements, higher capacity utilization,

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The global movement to energy-efficient lighting is prompting lighting companies and consumers to look at other options. Therefore, lighting will be the strongest end market for Cree, Inc. (CREE), likely followed by video displays and notebooks. Yield improvements, higher capacity utilization, larger wafers and offshore production will increasingly offset new product ramp up costs. The LED market is hot in our opinion, and the LLF acquisition opens up new opportunity.With the signing of the energy bill in December 2007, the U.S. government has decided to ban inefficient light bulbs by 2012. The energy efficiency standards set by the government effectively do away with incandescent light bulbs as we know them today. Although General Electric (GE) has stated that it is developing a more efficient bulb that will meet the efficiency standards, a delay in development may actually put it out of the running.The ...

Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings (AVR) is a producer and marketer of corn-based ethanol. On October 2nd, 2008, the company completed the buy-out of its minority partner Nebraska Energy Cooperative's stake (21.58%) in Nebraska Energy, LLC.Aside from direct ethanol production, the company also sells co-products and bio-products, and markets ethanol for other producers. Co-products such as distillers' grain are produced in tandem with ethanol and help offset corn feedstock costs.Through its own production and that of its partners, the company sold 431.5 million gallons of ethanol in the first half of 2008 and 226.6 million gallons in the 3rd quarter of 2008. It also sold 545.2 thousand tons of co-products.AVR's favorable top-line growth prospects stem from bullishness for the energy bill for ethanol production. On the other hand, an escalating cost structure – on account of rising corn prices, increased utility and maintenance ...

January 14, 2009 ndash; Yesterday Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold introduced S. 222 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the national limitation on qualified energy conservation bonds and to clarify that certain programs constitute a qualified conservation purpose, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance. We expect to see further legislation supporting energy efficiency and alternative energy development. Here is the text from Feingoldrsquo;s comments on the floor:nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, over the past few days I have introduced a series of bills that are part of my E4 Initiative, dubbed E4 because of its focus on economy, employment, education, and energy. Today I am introducing two bills that are part of this effort: the Community Revitalization Energy Conservation, CREC, Act of 2009 and the Energy and Technology Advancement, ETA, Act of 2009.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The newest among my E4 bills is the Community Revitalization Energy Conservation, CREC, ...

October 1, 2008 – The renewable energy sector has sold off lately amidst the broader market selloff, but aided by the failure of Congress to pass key legislation this week on the renewable tax credit extensions. That the tax credits will get renewed seems to us to be pretty much a sure thing. Congress has reached an agreement on the tax credits, but now there is just a debate between the House and the Senate how to pay for them. Adding to the delay, no doubt, is the focus that is being paid to the financial crisis bailout bill. In any case, failure to get the legislation passed has exacerbated weakness for renewable energy and clean tech stocks – but we see this as a significant opportunity to buy quality companies, that are extremely well positioned in a global renewable energy economy for the next 20 to 30 years. Perhaps ...

Solar stocks rallied on Wednesday 09/24/08, after the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, approved an energy bill that could benefit solar companies and expand the U.S. solar market. While the bill still has to get approved by the House of Representatives, President Bush has indicated he will support the bill.

One of the solar stocks that showed action on Wednesday, was Energy COnversion Devices (ENER). The stock opened at $63.44 from Tuesday’s close of $56.46, reached an intraday high of $66.30 and ended the day up $7.33, to close at $63.79.

We are looking for the stock to trend up to the $70 level and if the house approves the bill, which could happen over the next two weeks, we could even see the stock higher than that.

Tags: Energy Conversion Devices  Solar Stocks

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Top 5 Auto Makers by Market Cap Top 5 Airlines by Market Cap The U.S. auto industry is poised to begin lobbying Congress for up to $50 billion in low interest loans to help them better compete in the global market by upgrading manufacturing facilities and paving the way for the production of vehicles with better fuel efficiency. Last year, Congress authorized $25 billion as part of an energy bill aimed at producing electric and hybrid vehicles, but auto makers are looking to expand the total to $50 billion over three years. Since companies such as Ford (F) and General Motors (GM) are below investment grade, company officials argue they cannot access capital at ...

Zacks senior alt-energy industry analyst Jon Kolb has following this particular group of stocks for years, back when alternative fuels were considered more of a pipe-dream (and gasoline was relatively inexpensive). He recently gave us an updated outlook on a couple major players in the ethanol sub-sector.

WhatÂ’s one of your top names in alt-energy, and how did it perform recently?

VeraSun Energy (VSE) registered nearly six-fold growth in revenue in the 2nd quarter of fiscal 2008 after its merger with fellow biofuel company U.S. BioEnergy. Earnings were boosted by both higher ethanol production volume and average per-gallon price, year-on-year.

Looking ahead, increasing ethanol prices, recent bullishness in the energy bill for ethanol production, rising crude oil prices, ongoing capacity expansion plans and value unlocking through synergies from the recent merger with USBE should maintain growth momentum over the near-term.

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