Calpine

Other favorites, such as Calpine and Focus Media, are down more than 24% since late August.

Hedge Funds Are Picking on Each Other 2008

The roots of its distress lay in huge sums spent to build gas-fired power plants, a strategy conceived when deregulation of retail electricity markets was sweeping the country and independent generators such as Calpine were stepping in to furnish wholesale power to utilities that were exiting the business.

Calpine Bankruptcy Plan Is Cleared 2007

The chief executive of Ford Motor will not do as corporate leaders have done at firms such as Calpine and Northwest Airlines.

Ford CEO: 'Honesty' Best Weapon Against Bankruptcy 2006

Calpine, one of the largest U.S. wholesale marketers of gas-fired and geothermal power, has been challenged by rising expenses, hedging losses and a weak wholesale market.

Calpine's Loss Narrows Ben Fox Rubin 2012

Calpine's operating margin widened to 13.4% from 6.1%.

Calpine's Loss Narrows Ben Fox Rubin 2012

Calpine, of San Jose, Calif., posted a fourth-quarter loss of $24 million, or five cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $43 million, or nine cents a share.

Calpine's Loss Narrows Matt Jarzemsky 2011

Calpine Corp.'s fourth-quarter loss narrowed as discontinued operations and asset sales boosted the bottom line, but revenue slid amid lower production.

Calpine's Loss Narrows Matt Jarzemsky 2011

Nationwide, Calpine expects opportunities to build new plants and to take advantage of higher prices as older, coal-fired power units are shut down in large part because of new and pending federal limits on air pollution.

Calpine's Loss Narrows Ben Fox Rubin 2012

"We could, today, simply through the increased use of existing natural-gas fired power plants, meaningfully reduce the CO? emissions of the power sector," natural gas plant chief Jack Fusco of the Calpine Corp. told senators in October.

Natural gas supply, jobs and technique debate booming 2010

Calpine Corp.'s fourth-quarter loss narrowed as the power company booked a gain tied to derivatives trading and saw margins improve, though sales fell slightly.

Calpine's Loss Narrows Ben Fox Rubin 2012