Whenever America debates energy policies, there's normally some heated rhetoric about one industry getting treated better than the other.
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May 20 - News
A thorough understanding of climate change generally spurs long-term investors to make serious adjustments to their risk assumptions for particular companies and industries.
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May 20 - News
Uranium prices are in for 2012, and costs continue to head higher.
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May 19 - News
Utilities are the classic “widow-and-orphan” stocks—meaning they are slow and steady providers of dependable income.
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May 13 - News
A recent story about Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) indicates just how much of a factor random chance can play in investing.
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May 13 - News
Batteries are used in many of today’s essential products, from cell phones to hybrid cars.
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May 13 - News
Earnings announcements aside, utilities (and their dividend stocks) have been on the move in May.
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May 13 - News
Electricity demand is down, and utilities are rapidly readjusting.
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May 10 - News
Atlantic Power Corp (NYSE:AT) shares have sunk 60% in 2013, leaving many investors wondering whether the utility's earnings will ever float back.
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May 9 - News
Utility companies are known for providing stable dividends, and are some of the best dividend payers in the market.
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May 8 - News
International investments offer unheard of growth potential for U.S. investors. With domestic growth in the gutters, some utilities have headed overseas to send sales soaring.
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May 7 - News
It's been a year since Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) merged with Constellation Energy to become the nation's largest competitive integrated energy provider.
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May 6 - News
Earnings announcements aside, it's been a busy week for utilities.
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May 6 - News
First-quarter earnings are pouring in, and there are plenty of lessons to be learned from this quarter's results.
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May 6 - News
In this developed, civilized, picture-perfect world that we live in, it's easy enough to forget that creating electricity is, at its core, a dangerous job.
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May 4 - News
Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) reported earnings this week, beating sales estimates but underwhelming on earnings.
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May 4 - News
Midstream operators aren't the most exciting companies in the world -- pipelines and processing plants don't typically give investors much reason to clamor.
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May 4 - News
Utility companies have traditionally been the only way for a consumer to join the 21st century and use electricity in their homes.
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May 2 - News
On Friday, Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) will release its latest quarterly results.
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May 1 - News
Retirement stocks are typically value stocks with a high dividend yield and low-risk, with a moderate-to-high medium term growth rate that doesn’t raise the blood pressure of...
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April 30 - News
Several utilities took the opportunity of Earth Day (Monday) to espouse environmental efforts.
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April 28 - News
Valmont Industries, Inc. (NYSE:VMI) reported impressive first-quarter earnings recently, with operating income rising 43% on strong sales and increasing margins.
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April 28 - News
Look around the market today and you can find quite a few companies that are trading at all-time highs.
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April 25 - News
Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) is an energy company owning nuclear, natural gas, coal-fired and hydroelectric generation.
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April 23 - News
When it comes to checks and balances, carbon emissions could do without.
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April 23 - News
Even after this week's decline, the S&P 500 is still up more than 9% so far in 2013.
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April 21 - News
On Thursday, Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE:BTU) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 16 - News
Electric utilities have never been the most exciting opportunities in the stock market, but lately, one stock in the group has been underperforming the stock market as a whole...
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April 15 - News
One way to think about the market is in terms of money flows between assets with different risk characteristics.
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April 14 - News
From a solar-power project sale to new predictions for coal's comeback, it's been a busy week for utilities.
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April 13 - News
Chief executives are born leaders. But when private sector heads become soapbox pundits, it can drastically affect their business.
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April 11 - News
In 2008, candidate Barack Obama infamously said that as president he would set policy that would bankrupt the coal industry: "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant...
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April 10 - News
When I was a kid, my dad constantly reminded my siblings and me to turn off the lights when we went out of a room.
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April 9 - News
Related tickers: Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC), Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK), Heckmann Corporation (NYSE:HEK), First Solar, Inc.
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April 9 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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April 4 - News
Investing is not rocket science, but if we ignore the actual numbers behind it, then predictions become nothing more than conjecture.
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April 3 - News
The Southern Company (NYSE:SO) was in 13 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012.
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April 2 - News
U.S. utilities are in a rut and, according to recent energy projections, aren't about to dig themselves out any time soon.
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March 30 - News
In today’s marketplace, there are many methods shareholders can use to track stocks. A pair of the most innovative are hedge fund and insider trading activity.
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March 27 - News
NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) has made some fascinating moves recently that suggest it's written the first few drafts of a Dear John letter to utilities.
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March 26 - News
In 1973, nuclear power supplied 5% of the total electricity consumed by American homes.
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March 24 - News
In this series, we'll highlight four companies in an industry, and compare their "cash king margins" over time, trying to determine which has the greatest likelihood of putting...
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March 22 - News
The EPA is set to unleash a host of new regulations that will impact the energy sector, and top utility companies in the U.S.
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March 20 - News
Atlantic Power Corp (NYSE:AT) just sold off a transmission project to raise cash and funnel funds toward natural gas and renewable generation.
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March 18 - News
Politicians who supported the construction of new nuclear reactors in their home states are in meltdown mode.
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March 12 - News
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NEE) announced this week that it officially sold off the last of its hydro assets.
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March 11 - News
Last month, I penned a simple list of 30 facts that I hoped would quell some fears and misconceptions about nuclear energy.
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March 11 - News
The utility sector enjoys its best performance during periods of low interest.
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March 7 - News
Investing in a utility should be simple: Just look at what company you pay to keep the lights on and buy its stock.
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March 6 - News
Atlantic Power Corp (NYSE:AT)'s shares plummeted 30% last week when the utility reported dismal earnings and slashed its dividend in half.
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March 5 - News