It’s essential to life, in growing demand, and increasingly scarce and expensive: Clean water is easily one of the most compelling investment stories of the early 21st century. Read More

Every earnings season, Utility Forecaster Portfolio picks go under the microscope. The key question: Are they still measuring up as businesses that will become more valuable over time and build wealth? Read More

Investors lost billions buying competitive local exchange carriers (CLEC) in the 1990s and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) leaders such as Vonage this decade. Not surprising, many are now skeptical about the potential for WiMax technology to take down telecom’s titans. Read More

Empire District Electric’s long-term problem is hefty future capital costs in Missouri, a state known for rejecting rate increases. Read More

Slow and steady wins the race, but only if you stay patient. That’s worth keeping in mind with long-time holding Atmos Energy. Read More

Low risk and steady gains: That’s what owners of Xcel Energy securities have enjoyed over the past several years as the electric and gas utility recovered from a brush with bankruptcy in late 2002. Read More

If there’s anything truly timeless on Wall Street, it’s that investors are invariably worried about the wrong thing. Put another way, the real risk to our portfolios is never from the issue du jour in the financial press. Read More

Markets have a way of humbling even the most prescient prognosticator. That’s definitely been the case for oil this decade. Read More

Money Shows are the wide-ranging bazaars of the financial market place. Every viewpoint is represented, as are investment products of every stripe. Read More

Is the US economy steadying, and is order returning to global investment markets? The answers to these questions seem to play out differently day to day in stock prices. Read More