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Merrill Lynch believes the Federal Reserve rate hike could potentially act as the removal of an overhang on utilities rather than as a negative catalyst.
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A new research note from Deutsche Bank says that utilities are cheap, and all of the quality companies yielding 4% or more make very good sense for the last half of 2015.
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Institutions and retail investors alike have been exiting the utilities for the better part of the past 60 days in order to be out ahead of the coming Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes.
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These are the top analyst upgrades and downgrades featured by 24/7 Wall St. for Thursday, October 30, 2014.
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Jon OggStocks were well up on Wednesday morning. While volatility has returned to the stock market, it seems as though investors are looking to accumulate stocks that have sold off and that were...
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ThinkstockDividend payments by S&P 500 companies reached an all-time high last year, totaling some $330.8 billion, according to FactSet. As of this March, 418 of the 500 companies in the index...
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ThinkstockSouthern Company (NYSE: SO) announced Friday that it is partnering with Turner Renewable Energy to buy New Mexico’s largest solar facility from First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR). Terms of the...
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ThinkstockWith both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new all-time highs this week, investors have to wonder how they should be positioning themselves for the rest of the...
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These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday, May 5, 2014. They include ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Disney, FireEye, L-3 Communications and SINA.
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ThinkstockThe number of companies paying dividends in the S&P 500 is at a 15-year high. According to FactSet, just over 80 companies in the index do not pay dividends. Paying dividends has become...
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ThinkstockFirst Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) said today that it has sold its Campo Verde solar energy project to a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO) and Turner Renewable Energy. The sale price...
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ThinkstockAfter reporting pretty much awful results this morning, Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) let investors know that it would also cut its quarterly dividend by a whopping 41%, from $0.525 to $0.31....
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U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning following a depressing report on U.S. GDP growth, which turned out to be negative (more coverage here). Even a good jobs report from ADP couldn’t...
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U.S. equity markets opened slightly lower this morning following not-much in the way of new data and a wait-and-see attitude until tomorrow’s meeting announcement from the FOMC, which began a...
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ThinkstockAccording to a new survey by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the number of coal-fired power plants is set to grow by 1,200 new facilities and add 1.4 million megawatts of generation to...
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