Utility Forecaster Weekly
The Recovery: Watch Your Expectations
- February 3, 2012
A positive earnings season for essential-service companies is underway, and economic data are showing new signs of strength. This means it’s time to be wary.
Momentum Investing and Dividends: A Bad Match
- January 27, 2012
“Momentum” and “dividends” are two words seldom seen together in the same rational sentence.
Partners in Profits
- January 20, 2012
Growth and income, reliable and long-term: That’s what MLPs offer investors.
The Natural Gas Plunge: Should Income Investors Worry?
- January 13, 2012
Natural gas prices continue to slide, dipping to a low not seen since the 1990s. Here’s an update from a UF Portfolio perspective.
Invest for 2012, Not 1932
- January 6, 2012
Comparisons to the Great Depression earn eager eyeballs and generate counterproductive emotions. Those of recent vintage, usually founded in faulty premises, are designed specifically to effect the latter.
Why I Expect More Gains in 2012
- December 30, 2011
Expectations for stocks are about as low as possible right now. That’s why next year is bound to be a good one.
The Next Generation
- December 23, 2011
Sound investment decisions and a surprisingly favorable regulatory outcome may set the stage for a new period nuclear growth in the US.
Feds Take a Holiday
- December 16, 2011
Don't expect quick action on anything that requires federal approval. Not only is holiday season approaching. The electoral season of November 2012 is already in full rage.
A Winning Wires Deal
- December 9, 2011
A new arrangement between Entergy Corp (NYSE: ETR) and ITC Holdings (NYSE: ITC) is a pleasant reminder amid all this European-driven round doom and gloom that productive commerce continues.
High-Yield Energy Investing: Dealing with Environmental and Safety Risk
- December 2, 2011
Spills, fires, accidents and violations of safety and environmental laws are all part of doing business in the energy industry. So are fines and lawsuits, and no company big or small is wholly immune.
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