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by Mitchell Galton, urban-gro (NASDAQ: UGRO) Director of Business Development Cannabis is legal in some capacity in almost 40 states and consumer demand is ratcheting up –especially considering how more Eastern and Southern markets will come online in the next year. Consequently,...

This article by Ebby Stone was originally published on Cannabis & Tech Today, and appears here with permission. Do cucumbers prefer blue light during flowering? How is the chemical profile of a cannabis plant influenced by the duration of exposure to infrared light? Believe it or not,...

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) reported mixed earnings Wednesday and downbeat guidance, but the stock is now trading at a reasonable valuation, according to JMP Securities.  The Analyst Analyst Joseph Osha upgraded Acuity Brands' stock rating from Market Perform to Market Outperform...

The case for selling Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE)'s stock no longer applies as the manufacturer of lighting products is "picking up momentum," according to Goldman Sachs. The Analyst Goldman Sachs' Brian Lee upgraded Cree's stock rating from Sell to Neutral with a 12-month...

Investors looking to buy shares of Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREE) after the lighting company announced a 345-million-euro ($428 million) acquisition of most of Infineon's radio frequency power business should wait for a better entry point, according to KeyBanc. The Analyst KeyBanc Capital Markets...

Lighting company Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) could close its valuation gap with its peers, according to JMP Securities.  The Analyst JMP Securities analyst Joseph Osha has a Market Perform rating for Acuity Brands. Although JMP has no assigned price target for the stock, the analyst...

Hubbell Incorporated (NYSE: HUBB) received a Wall Street upgrade this week on the basis of performance in the electrical segment, the federal tax cut and other positive catalysts.  The Analyst Oppenheimer analyst Christopher Glynn upgraded shares of Hubbell from Perform to Outperform with a...

The race for overall light-emitting diode (LED) production is on, as the new, energy-efficient lighting technology gains momentum worldwide LEDS are quickly becoming a widespread and less-expensive alternative to incandescent and florescent lighting. Last month, Taiwan's Digitimes reported...

2014 might end up being remembered as The Year of the LED. On New Year's Day, as part of the energy efficiency standards introduced by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the federal government enacted the final phasing out of incandescent lightbulb technology in the U.S. The...