Duke Energy Corp

NYSE: DUK
$114.41
-$2.65 (-2.3%)
Closing Price on October 29, 2024

DUK Articles

Our daily review of alternative energy begins today with the latest rankings of solar PV makers by sales. Also, a recent study by Cornell University researchers on the release of methane as a result...
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a 20-year renewal of Entergy Corp.’s (NYSE: ETR) Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Whether that’s good news or bad for Entergy remains to be...
Economists cheered the ADP data that showed the private sector added 187,000 jobs in January. It did not help the stock market much but was probably offset by bad news from Egypt. The ADP figures may...
The visit of China’s president Hu Jintao has given several US companies an opportunity to announce deals with a variety of Chinese companies in everything from clean energy projects to airplane...
Another deal has been confirmed in the land grab for utilities.  Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE: DUK) has confirmed fresh reports that it was acquiring Progress Energy Inc. (NYSE: PGN).  Duke’s...
Our feature of “The Unusual Suspects” is back after not having enough consistent planned events during the last two weeks of the holidays.  We have earnings due, cases happening, FDA events,...
New Jersey Gov.  Chris Christie, a rising star in the Republican party, recently  stunned the media by expressing doubts about global warming. Four scientists from universities in the state even...
It’s been nearly three years since Entergy Corp. (NYSE:ETR) first said it would spin off its non-utility nuclear power plants into a new company called Enexus. The state of New York’s public...
U.S. utilities, which are under pressure to use more environmentally friendly fuel sources, are increasingly betting their future of natural gas at the expense of coal. As Bloomberg News notes, the...
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms: Chico’s FAS Inc. (NYSE: CHS) Started as Neutral at Janney...
Of the $787 billion federal stimulus bill passed in 2009, more than $3.4 billion was targeted at modernizing the US electricity transmission and distribution systems and promoting investments in...
The US Energy Information Administration has just released its review of CO2 emissions in the US for 2009. That year’s report shows the largest ever absolute drop and percentage drop in CO2...
Investors love dividends, and big stable utility stocks often have some of the highest dividends of any class of stocks.  There has just been one problem… Dividends or not, utilities are sucking...
These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Aqua America (NYSE: WTR) Cut to Neutral at Macquarie. Brinker International (NYSE:...
We are seeing at least some significant moves from the company’s who have announced that they are grant recipients under part of the $3.4 billion Smart Grid pledge from the Obama administration...