Utilities

February 16, 2016 Dividends 17 Comments

Utilities With Slowing Dividend Growth

Utilities With Slowing Dividend Growth SA Contributor Schwartz offers a list of 465 companies with declining dividend growth curves lasting from one to twelve years. Of these, there are eight in the utility sector, with declining growth curves lasting between three and eight years. A declining … Continue reading at seekingalpha.com Nuclear Utility EDF Cuts […]

January 27, 2016 News No Comments

New and Future Business Models for Energy Utilities

New and Future Business Models for Energy Utilities The supply-driven business models of the past will make way for customer … of distributed renewable energy sources to combat climate change. – In addition, the recent economic crisis and improvements in energy efficiency have resulted in reduced … Continue reading at finance.yahoo.com Stocks suffer drastic drop; […]

January 14, 2016 ETF No Comments

It’s Not All Bad For Utilities ETFs

It’s Not All Bad For Utilities ETFs Leading up to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates last month, the first such move by the U.S. central bank in nearly a decade, utilities stocks and exchange-traded funds were widely seen as vulnerable to higher U.S. borrowing costs. Historical data … Continue reading at money.cnn.com Notable ETF […]

October 25, 2015 ETF One Comment

Utilities Are Still Attractive If The Fed Does This

Really, it is a simple story. Speculation increases about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates and utilities stocks and the relevant exchange-traded funds suffer. September rolls around, and the Fed eschews a rate hike, leaving bond traders to surmise that the central bank could delay higher rates as far off as mid-2016 or that the […]

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While paper-based investments and real estate are vulnerable to effects of changing times, gold soars. A precious metals investment may save a portfolio when all else fails.

"Gold prices are climbing right now because the Federal Reserve is printing dollars in flood proportions to keep the real estate market afloat," adds Richard Russell, editor Dow Theory Letters, a stock market trends and securities report published since 1946. "This is creating inflation, which erodes purchasing power. All the world's central banks are inflating right now, reducing confidence in paper globally and encouraging gold-buying. India and China are spurring gold prices as well. India is the world's largest gold-consumer, and the Chinese government is actively encouraging its citizens to buy gold."