Kyocera Corp (KYO)

[*MARINE 1*]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--If you’re considering a solar electric generating system but need assurance about the reliability of solar power, take note.

KYO

Kyocera Solar, Inc. today announced that its 500-kilowatt (kW) solar array at the PPL Renewable Energy Park in Camden County, N.J., has exceeded performance expectations consistently since it began operating in September 2006. The system is part of a major initiative to adopt renewable energy at the county’s Pennsauken Landfill.

“The 2,500 Kyocera KC200 modules are performing at 105 percent of expected output after nearly three years of operation,” said Steve Gabrielle, PPL Renewable Energy’s director. “Each year, this system is producing about 30,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) more than planned.”

In total, this installation produces 630,000 kWh annually, enough to power 72 typical area homes while offsetting 198 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions — the equivalent of taking 36 cars off the road and saving 900 barrels of oil each year.

“We’re very pleased that our collaboration with Kyocera resulted in an installation that is over-performing,” Gabrielle continued. “That’s great news for PPL, its energy customers, and the state of New Jersey. This partnership is an example of PPL’s commitment to renewable energy options in cultivating the next generation of power.”

PPL Renewable Energy is one of the largest owner-operators of renewable energy projects on the U.S. East Coast. The 5.4 megawatt PPL Renewable Energy Park is composed of three solar power installations and one landfill gas generating plant built by PPL Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of PPL Corporation. Two of the four plants feature solar energy systems comprised of Kyocera solar modules.

“Kyocera is committed to environmental preservation and providing quality solar energy solutions to the world,” said Chris Brown, sales manager for Kyocera Solar, Inc. “For this reason, we are pleased to have Kyocera’s solar modules utilized as one of the key technologies demonstrated in the PPL Renewable Energy Park.”

About Kyocera

Kyocera Solar, Inc. (http://www.kyocerasolar.com) is a world-leading supplier of environmentally sound, solar electric energy solutions. With operating headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz. and regional sales centers in the U.S., Brazil and Australia, Kyocera Solar, Inc. serves thousands of customers in both developed and developing regions. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kyocera International, Inc. of San Diego, the North American headquarters and holding company for Kyoto, Japan-based Kyocera Corporation.

Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO - News) (TOKYO:6971 - News) (http://global.kyocera.com/), the parent and global headquarters of the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of fine ceramics (also known as “advanced ceramics”). By combining these engineered materials with metals and plastics, and integrating them with other technologies, Kyocera Corporation has become a leading supplier of solar electric generating systems, telecommunications equipment, copiers, printers, electronic components, semiconductor packages, cutting tools and industrial ceramics. During the year ended March 31, 2009, the company’s net sales totaled 1.13 trillion yen (approximately US$11.5 billion). Kyocera marks its 50th anniversary in 2009, and the 40th anniversary of its U.S. operations. It is ranked #418 on Forbes magazine’s 2009 “Global 2000” listing of the world’s largest publicly traded companies.

About PPL Renewable Energy

PPL Renewable Energy (www.pplrenewableenergy.com) develops, owns, operates and maintains renewable and clean energy projects in the northeastern United States. These include solar panel installations, landfill gas-to-energy and cogeneration projects in Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Jersey. PPL Corporation, headquartered in Allentown, Pa., controls or owns more than 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to about 4 million customers in Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom.

[frenchee]

Short-term sell signal on Kyocera relative to last Friday's close...

[frenchee]

Kyocera Launches World's Smallest EMI Filter with ESD Protection


KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 28, 2008-- Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(President: Makoto Kawamura) is pleased to introduce the KVA16 quad EMI filter array, LC distributed constant type component featuring both electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering and electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection in a single package. The new unit, the so-called 1608 type since it measures only 1.6 x 0.8 x 0.5 mm (typ.), is the world's smallest LC filter, approximately half the size compared to the KVA21 series (2012 type), the EMI filter with ESD protection function, which is already in Kyocera's product lineup. The smaller size contributes to minimize the assembly space on the circuit board. It will go to volume production in March this year.

Like the KVA21 series, the KVA16 series features varistor material developed by AVX, Kyocera's affiliate in the United States. The circuits and structure with the new material were designed with advanced electromagnetic field simulator developed by Kyocera Corporation, optimizing the layout of the L (inductors) and C (capacitors) on the filter array. The result is an 8-kV ESD contact discharge -- compliant with IEC/EN 61000-4-2.

Even with the added function of ESD protection, the series minimizes insertion loss. It realizes steep attenuation curve equivalent to the conventional products (the KNA series) over the 800-MHz to 2.0-GHz range and the filter circuit that shows high attenuation characteristics over 20 dB.

The KVA16's optimized monolithic LC filter also offers higher reliability, which is suitable for volume production, and complies with the RoHS directive.

[frenchee]

KYO looking cheap relative to its peers...

P/E Ratio: (without extraordinary items) 18.72

P/E Ratio vs. Industry: 68.77%

[Alex G]

sorry i don't follow this stock... good luck

[frenchee]

Kyocera starting the buck the down trend...

[frenchee]

Hello Alex G,

What's your current opinion on Kyocera? TIA

[frenchee]

KYO almost ready for a short-term long signal. Suggest going long on a close > 5-day EMA. See daily charts in iBox.

[Alex G]

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[muputs]

Thunder, if you take a look at the CRB over the past year, there has been an across the board improvement. Even the grains, which were in a hellish seven or eight year bear market, are perking up. Energy, grains, livestock, and softs all had a fairly good year, and are expected to remain strong in the coming year. The only non-participant was the base metals. They came off of a very low base and didn't move that much at all.

http://www.lme.co.uk/data_prices/price_graphs.asp

Here is a link to the LME charts. Take some time and run a five year, three month, chart on aluminum, copper, tin, zinc, and nickel. Excluding nickel, (which has its own little world for a number of reasons), they are all within 15% to 20% of multiyear lows. This is a direct result of the intense slowdown in the worldwide industrial economy. Thirty dollar oil is not helping the matter at all either. Inventories on all of the base metals are at multi year highs. The minor, specialty metals are also looking bad. Titanium, berylium, palladium are just plain terrible.

I don't know if you are aware of it, but the copper market has a very high correlation to the DJIA on any given day. If the stock market is up, copper will almost always be as well on that day. However, the copper market closes at 1:00 PM EST, and the stock market at 4:00 PM. When the Dow is off at 1:00, copper almost invariably closes down. The stock market was down all of Dec, so was copper. The stock market is up in Jan, so is copper.
On friday, at 1:00, the Dow was down. Look at Friday's candle print in copper.

http://www.futuresource.com/charts/charts.asp?type=future%2Cindex&symbols=RHGH03 &period=D&varminutes=&bartype=candle&symlist=RHG&month=H&year=03&study=VOI&STUDY 0=&STUDY1=&STUDY2=&STUDY3=&bardensity=LOW&size=MEDIUM&r=&x=46&y=13

So why was PD up so much on Fri ? Who knows? Maybe accumulation on slightly better than average volume. Maybe Paulohl is dead on in his ewave analysis. I remain skeptical until it decisivly breaks out of the current trading range and the inventories start to come down. Until then, every time the hedge funds push it to the top of the range, the producers will sell it without mercy. That is the definition of rangebound.

[Alex G]

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Interesting comments from Aegean Capital, I tend to agree with...

"Today we can point out a very interesting situation that is currently unfolding. Notice that the very same pattern in May resulted in a minor rally which was followed by a bigger decline, and in July it resulted in a large decline, which was followed by an equally large advance. There are two points that can be made a) the markets at this point can go either way, and b) which ever way they go first, they will reverse and the ensuing move should be just as big, or bigger but in the opposite direction!

The first point is supported by the fact that the McClellan Oscillators and the Quantifiers are showing bullish divergences, but the BSEs and the Thrust Oscillators are topping out which is bearish. Obviously there are plenty of cross-currents that are pulling the markets both ways, as illustrated both by bearish and bullish readings in the indicators. The second point supports our belief that investors should ignore how the current pattern will be resolved, because the bigger and more important move will come after the resolution, and it will be on the opposite direction. If the current pattern results in a rally, it should be followed by a bigger decline, and if it results in a decline, it should be followed by an even bigger advance. It is important for investors to understand that the markets are in a transitionary period, and what happens the next 5-10 trading is not all that significant, what follows will be of much more significance. Given that the markets have been falling or seven months, and given some important divergences that have started to appear in some of our intermediate term indicators, we believe that the odds do favor a resolution on the downside, followed by a powerful rally. However, given the level of risk present in the market, we would caution investors against making early major bets on how the current situation will be resolved. Being patient at this point will serve investors' interests well..

[Alex G]

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[Alex G]

Both indices are below their 50 hour SMA, the 50 hour SMA is declining, and we have a negative crossover in the MACD





Targets remain Naz 1000-1080, Dow 6980, S&P 740 #msg-517067

[Alex G]

Today NASDAQ has resistance at 1205 and support at 1175/1169




the SP has support at 819 and resistance at 845

[Alex G]

Naz rally to continue to the 1250-1260 level?




DJIA possibly to 8300... then head back down to new lows?




From "savvycharts"...

[muputs]

KKD report - Loop Grand Opening

I don't know how I managed to miss the free donuts last week, but I did. Strategically, it was the one place where I could have completed the all important taste test, a vital element of this report. If this was a paid position, I should have been fired for gross negligence.

So anyway, on Friday there was an invitation only private party. Purely in the interest of scientific investigation, I attempted to impersonate a VIP donut executive. I was unsuccessful. Consigned to looking through the window in the Autumn drizzle, I observed the following: The store looks good. All signage, fixtures, cash registers and personnel were in place. The store is bright and attractive, in a 50's type motif. Most important, the donut machine was operating. At the time, it was running at about 40% capacity. This was for testing purposes. Believe it or not, there was a kid sticking each donut with what looked like a donut thermometer. In the manner of some kind of a German car mechanic. Very precise looking, and to a non-donut insider, impressive.

Finally, today was the long awaited grand opening. No way was I getting in there this morning. Lines out the door. Came back in the afternoon. Got in. One thing did strke me as odd though. No less than three uniformed security guards. Don't know if they were expecting an unruly donut crowd, or were just protecting the customers from terrorists. Still can't figure it out. Anyway, was able to finish the long awaited taste test. Hot donuts are good. I mean really good.

Should be a big hit. Plus a lot of free media coverage. Local TV and radio reports all day. But I still don’t know if I would buy the stock.

[gochen]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gochen123/files/E-waves%20and%20cycle%20days/%24indu_0921_intraday.bmp...

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[Alex G]

you got it!

notice also that iHub has an edit function, so you could have fixed your first chart post

[paulohl]

[paulohl]

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Let's see if this works.

[Alex G]

DJIA... Holding at the neckline for a 1-3 day rally? or breaking down to 7500? and rally back to the neckline before the next leg down?

[Alex G]

Chart tutorial- http://216.63.13.30/boards/board.asp?board_id=107

[gochen]

Hi all.
How do I post a chart?

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[Alex G]

test... Alex G/ aka CanalBlvd

[muputs]

EGO, I don't follow BK directly, but right now I would avoid money center banks for anything but a short term trade. Today's WSJ ran a front page chart on nonperforming loans at C, JPM and BAC. C is carrying $8.0 billion, BAC $5.0, JPM $3.0. BK cannot be in a different boat. We are looking at major charge offs in the coming quarters. This should come as no surprise to anyone, considering the scale of the bankruptcies that have come down the pike. There are more to come.

One of the biggest issues is counterparty risk. The following is an excellent article on the subject. It is fairly long and detailed, but worth the time. The thing to keep in mind is that the international banking system is interlocked. One big failure anywhere will make LTCM look like childs play.

http://www.financialsense.com/Market/wrapup.htm

[eGO45]

Muputs, thanks for the post about futures. I know they are dangerous and if I have no guts for options they are even more scarier to me.
I'm starting educate myself on a subject, but doing it in a spare time, so not a lot of progress there.
Hope you don't mind if I'd ask questions from time to time.

Regards,
eGO

[muputs]

I think that you are quite right to approach moving into the futures market with caution. Though I have every confidence that you could trade any chart based asset that was put in front of you, futures are a lot different than equities. It is the detail that can trip you up and in futures the detail is never intuitively apparent. Simple, basic things like market hours and calendars are different. The value of a tic or point, minimum price movements, limit up/down, reporting and position limits, these are all items that a trader should be familiar with. Not only do these things differ a lot from the stock market (many of them don't even exist in the stock market), they differ a lot from one commodity market to the next. Its not that it is that complex, its just that there is a lot of it, and mistakes can be a lot more expensive than the tuition paid in the equity market. It is very interesting, but should be approached in a systematic way.

Futures brokers have an old joke about this. Q: how much money does a dentist lose when he opens a $10,000 futures account ? (They refer to retailers as dentists). A: About $15,000. They wouldn't think it was so funny if it was not somewhat true. People who have had some success or luck in the stock market think that they can jump into futures trading and repeat the process. The brokers love them.

Something that may be of interest to you are the courses offered at the CME. They teach everything from basic fundamentals to advanced technical trading. The instructors are mostly floor traders and CME members who have been with the exchange many years. Some are third generation futures traders, some have made valuable contributions to the study of the industry, some are well known authors. The guy who gives the candlestick course was an associate of Nisan. However, it is not an academic approach, very hands on and practical. Better yet, the courses are very cheap, relative to any other higher education, (from around $90 to $225).

For those that do not have direct access to an exchange, there are plenty of good books that can get you started. But whatever you do, don’t open a futures account until you become fluent in the language and practice. Leverage can be a wonderful thing, unless its going against you. Then it can get real expensive, real fast.

[NAJM]

I just created an account here and am making my first post. As with other things, like modem connections, having a backup plan is a fine idea!

[muputs]

Re: Something up with MCD - microcap pro

It is unlikely that raw commodity prices are having that much of an effect on MCD. Beef is probably their biggest food expense, but live cattle are trading at the center point of their five year range. The company has a hedgeing program, so the cost is mainly fixed. The grains are breaking out of multiyear lows, mainly due to drought conditions and low inventory levels. The wheat contract is making daily contract highs and is close to a five year high. However, it takes a relatively long time for prices to increase at the wholesale and retail level. #2 yellow corn is also breaking out. It is used as animal feed and eventually could affect the price of beef. On the whole though, a certain amount of volitility is expected in food prices and they are anticipated and managed.

Of equal importance to the MCD cost structure are real estate/occupancy costs and labor. These are big drivers of margins. Perhaps most important is the competitive nature of the fast food industry. Market share is constantly shifting among the players, as Wendy's or BK pick off a point or two. Overall growth in the industry is slowing.

What you saw today is probably a response to the less than lovely news from Jack in the Box. Sympathy reaction.

[lowprsure]

And this makes 6.

Hello from Washington, D.C., home of coke-sniffing mayors, lobbyists, congressmen and other fine folk.

The weather today couldn't be finer as this morning's cold front has cleared and autumn is here for real. May such glorious weather be with you and your investments as you make your way in this world.

Cheers!
Tim

[magicallyhylacinerea]

Yep, works fine MU. Post 9/11, I stopped doing the train.
Driving into town instead. Felt train-challenged that day.
Metra could not respond to the evacuation. Come winter-time, won't be needing buildings to walk through either.

Said a prayer this morning. That's it for me.

Got my candles and bollbands books yesterday.
Found a tails-up quarter lying in the parking lot.
Must have a "meaning" of some kind, I'm sure.

[looking_for_solid]

hello folks,

just checking in here.

regards,

[muputs]

I tried to post this 12 ways to YHOO. No go.

This afternoon on my way home it started to rain, so I decided to take the subway for the seven blocks that I usually walk. There were uniformed police all over the platform, something that is never seen. The train came, but there was some malfunction and it created some smoke. Though it turned out to be nothing, you could see the apprehensiveness all around.

There have been a lot of changes around here, none for the better. To this day, all of the spectators galleries at the exchanges are closed. You need a badge to even step into the CME. Its pretty much the same story at the Board of Trade, CBOE, and the CSE. The MidAm went bankrupt. These were always open institutions, welcoming to the public and eager to a part of any good Chicago tour. No more. Concrete barriers around every one of them. Also around the Sears Tower, the Federal Building, City Hall, Daley Plaza, The Federation of Jewish Charities, etc. etc. There are a lot of buildings in the city that are a block square, where you could enter the lobby on one side and come out in the next block. It was a civilized way to avoid the subzero in the dead of winter. That’s done too.

I am not even slightly in the mood for all of the sentimental, media driven, rehash that is going to suffocating us in the next couple of days. I am just grateful that my cousins and close associates survived that horrible day. And sorry for those who were not so lucky.

[paulohl]

Now let's see if freeservers still can detect the hot link:

http://paulohl.freexservers.com.freexservers.com/CEFT%20Waves%20Aug%205%2002.gif

Click on the link. Then remove x in 2 places and hit enter.

[bsk2007]

bskjohnson checking in. Looks like PGO is going to be fun today. See Ya'll later.

The edit feature after you submit your post is kind of cool.

Now let's try a link:

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=17970371

I posted this link for funnies and no other reason.

bsk

[paulohl]

Now two of us are here.

This is a message board, so I doubt that it will support anything but words and links. Lets see if they allow a freeservers link.

http://paulohl.freeservers.com.freeservers.com/CEFT%20Waves%20Aug%205%2002.gif

Now let's see if they allow a bravepages link:

http://paulohl.bravepages.com/AOL%20Trendline%20Break%20Jun%2026%2002.gif

Geronimo!

[magicallyhylacinerea]

You're at the right place. TreeFrog.