GT Solar International Inc. (SOLR), a U.S. manufacturer of equipment used in the production of photovoltaic cells, announced first quarter 2009 financial results today after the close. Revenues rose to $57.1 million, an increase of 272% year-over-year compared to $15.4 million.

Last weekend, the Div Guy did a solid write up of the problems over at SemGroup Energy Partners, L.P. (SGLP), the publicly traded midstream entity that lost 80% of its value when SemGroup L.P., its General Partner, lost $2.4 billion on a bad bet on oil prices. There are just a few points I want to make on the situation.

The author discusses the hot biotech stocks you don't want to miss based on the companies Gene Marcial introduced in his book "7 Commandments of Stock Investing". He talks about the company background and its rational behind its attraction.

An article on some of the potentially hot IPOs of 2008 following Visa. If these IPOs do as well as Visa did this year, we potentially have a nice profit opportunity.
The website features a portfolio of an individual who does not have much of an investing background venturing into the investing world with his first $10,000, and you get to track his progress every step of the way.

V closed @ 56.5

The market cap for this company is now over $25 billion, about the same market cap as Mastercard. It certainly has more upside because it is bigger than MA.

Goldman Sachs just filed for a $350 million blank-check IPO which promises to change the rules of the SPAC game via a company called Liberty Lane Acquisition Corp.

"Shares of Visa Inc. leaped more than 35% in their market debut Wednesday, opening at $59.50 as investor demand for the largest initial public offering in U.S. history drew spirited bidding. It took about 45 minutes to align buyers and sellers before the share finally opened Wednesday, as demand surged amid renewed interest this week in financial shares."

According to TodaysFinancialNews.com: "You have a number of options to profit from Thursday’s Visa IPO. First, you could simply try to buy shares in the aftermarket. In a best-case scenario, you would buy at or near the issue price and watch your shares go up followeing the same trajectory as MasterCard or, even better, Google. But there are two more ways to profit…"

It has been awhile since we have heard anything about the Visa IPO. In the Wall Street Journal this morning, there was an article about credit-card processing giant Visa. Visa plans to sell as much as $17 billion in stock, which would make it the biggest IPO in U.S. history.

SPAC's, or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, are set up for the purpose of making one big acquisition within a finite period using an IPO, an offer which mostly involves only insiders and hedge funds in the initial stage, and hardly any ordinary investors.