With this latest deal, the utility giant will secure its status as the largest utility by market cap. Read More

Though we’re hungry for income, not just any dividend payer will do. Read More

Shares of Personal Finance Growth Portfolio holding Gilead Sciences (GILD) dropped nearly 9% in early trading on Tuesday after the company released its third quarter earnings report that fell short of last year’s results. Quarterly revenue of $7.8 billion this year was less than last year’s sales of $8.2 billion,… Read More

Refiners are caught in a vicious margin squeeze, and a glut of stockpiled fuel points to more pain ahead. Read More

Unilever just bought the privately held (and unprofitable) Dollar Shave Club for a cool billion dollars. Not a huge transaction for Unilever, but another seismic shift for retailing—and a shift that spells opportunity for those who can decipher these tremors.Dollar Shave Club (as explained in its quirky ads) ships razor… Read More

We should always keep an eye on preserving our wealth, but now is a particularly good time to review our holdings given market forecasters have upped their odds of a U.S. recession in the next year.And we should be particularly careful not to be lulled into a false sense of… Read More

The perma-bears forecasting an endless slump are lying about the current demand trends and the competitiveness of alternate technologies. Read More

It takes old technology to power the new Read More

The latest economic and demographic data show the potential rise of a whole new group of utilities as prized income investments. Read More

A trio of “old tech” companies reported quarterly earnings this week, which in the past would have drew yawns from stock market analysts. But with overseas investors fleeing the uncertainty of Europe and Asia for the relative security of the United States, many of these stocks have become de facto… Read More