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SunPower boasts of being able to manufacture the most efficient large-scale solar modules in the industry, and shipments of its residential and commercial components have been growing rapidly. Trefis predicts they'll keep growing, especially if federal policy shifts further in favor of solar.

DailyFinance writer Jonathan Berr sees much to like in the compromise President Obama reached with congressional Republicans on taxes and unemployment compensation. And while he'd never call it perfect, as he notes, the American voters elect politicians to get stuff done, which this plan does.

The central bank says the disclosures cover more than 21,000 individual transactions done to "restore the flow of credit to American families and businesses, and support economic recovery and job creation in the aftermath of the crisis." It also says no money has been lost so far.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Thursday started the arduous process of confirmation for a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. At hearings in Washington, the chairman of Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Christopher Dodd, called the central bank's record an "abysmal failure." Dodd...