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Constellation Energy Group, Inc. (NYSE:CEG) missed analysts’ estimates by a mile. Fourth quarter EPS was $0.03 compared Wall Street consensus estimates of $1.24. For the full year, Constellation...
Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) is supposed to be one of the winners in the stimulus package.  The advanced metering company is known as the Smart Grid meter reader to many traders.  The company is...
USEC Inc. (NYSE:USU) today announced that it plans to initiate "reduce the planned escalation of project construction and machine manufacturing activities" at its uranium enrichment plant in Piketon,...
Too cool in summer, too warm in winter add up to lower profits for electric utilities. That’s the story today from both Alliant Energy Corp. (NYSE:LNT) and Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE:DUK). Alliant...
Republic Services Inc. (NYSE: RSG) keeps seeing its largest shareholder buy stock.  This is none other than Bill Gates.  A fresh filing shows that Gates purchased 600,000 more shares at a price...
Dominion Resources Inc. (NYSE:D) reported fourth quarter and full year results this morning, and the news was mixed. For the quarter, EPS hit $0.60 on $348 million in income, compared with EPS of...
A little-noticed US Supreme Court decision makes it more difficult to import low enriched uranium (LEU) into the US. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that a French firm was guilty of dumping...
American Electric Power Company (NYSE:AEP) expects to increase the company’s profit by building new power transmission lines. The company plans to spend more than $7 billion to add new high-voltage...
If you were hoping that Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) was going to pull a miracle out of the hat with earnings, Monday is going to be a cold day regardless of the weather.  The construction and...
Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) rose nearly 1.5% yesterday after the company reported fourth quarter 2008 EPS of $1.07, up from $0.84 in 2007. Full-year revenue of $18.86 billion was almost $1 billion...
Constellation Energy Group Inc. (NYSE:CEG) continues to shed assets. This time it’s the company’s London-based international commodities trading operations, which Constellation will sell to a...
UniStar Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between Electricite de France (EDF) and Constellation Energy Group Inc. (NYSE:CEG), and PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL), a UniStar partner, have passed the first...
Westinghouse Electric, a subsidiary of Japan’s Toshiba Corporation, has signed an engineering, procurement, and construction contract with the Florida subsidiary of Progress Energy, Inc. (NYSE:PGN)...
The incoming Obama administration faces any number of sizable challenges. One thing the President-elect proposes is to spend $150 billion "over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build...
Platts is reporting this morning that the European Commission released its decision this morning regarding the buyout offer from Electricite de France (EDF) for British Energy Group plc, the UK’s...