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The enterprising can find a way to make money on almost anything. Scandinavian shipowners claim that the melted Arctic ice cap has created shipping lanes that will make ocean transport more efficient...
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American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) is a winner despite the stock market’s attempt to kill equities. The company is among the few which are within striking distance of 52-week and...
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One of the largest parts of the Obama administration’s new bill to create jobs is a plan to put hundreds of thousands of people to work repairing the nation’s infrastructure. A report on the...
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When it comes to defensive investing, food and beverages are two of the go-to sectors for getting equity market exposure but protecting your assets. The logic is simple enough: “You gotta eat and...
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Machinery stocks rank very high as far as “cyclicality”…. If there is a sector that is dependent upon the broad economy and global growth it is the machinery sector. Machinery also includes...
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If you have seen one trend that has lasted in 2011 it is that companies are hiking their dividend payouts for their shareholders. Many classic investment models are based almost entirely around...
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The weakness we saw through much of the second quarter may have already started to turn around. The slowing was likely due to major supply chain issues and disruptions in orders and in sales that...
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USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU) is soaring on news that it may have a bit of a reprieve on its capital needs for the construction of the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The company has announced...
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We have been looking for value stocks as investors have started to look for cover in the markets where they can still have equity exposure but try to get some protection compared to the broad...
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American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) keeps delivering and delivering. This is one of our top ten stocks to own for the next decade and we have been on record that this is one of the go-to...
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The utilities sector had been performing incredibly. We recently highlighted the strong performance seen this year and over the last year with many of these names up 20% to 30% along with the...
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It would be easy to worry about the share prices of utility companies after the recession and after the most recent rise in commodity prices, and that brings up the great dividend worry. Utilities...
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Just last month CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) complete its $12.2 billion acquisition of Qwest. At the time the deal was announced, it seemed to make little sense because neither Qwest nor CenturyLink...
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If you have been following the merger trends in utilities, this secondary offering may be of little surprise. PP&L Corporation (NYSE: PPL) priced its offerings of common stock and equity units...
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It’s not likely that earnings and revenues for The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW) took too great a hit from the nuclear disaster in Japan, but what happens for the rest of this year could well be...
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