BUI News and Press, BlackRock Utility Infrastructure & Power Opportunities Trust From 06/28/19

Most of the money coming back to the stock market following the 2018 selloff has gone into companies with steady dividends and earnings that are less dependent on economic booms, particularly utilities and particularly over the past four weeks, writes Jon Sindreu at WSJ 's Heard On The St...

The utilities sector ( XLU -0.2% ) is a notable laggard in today's broad stock market rally, as a sharp drop in longer-term Treasury yields is balanced with a gain in AES Corp. ( AES +0.7% ) after a BofA Merrill Lynch upgrade. More news on: Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF, The ...

In one of the most significant steps yet by the Trump administration to roll back Obama-era climate policy, the Environmental Protection Agency releases its much-anticipated final rule gutting Pres. Obama's signature Clean Power Plan for cutting carbon emissions from coal plants to comba...

The latest rise in the stock market has been helped along by safety stocks such as utilities, consumer staples and real estate, a reversal from earlier this year when cyclical sectors tied to the health of the economy pushed U.S. stock indexes to fresh records. More news on: Vanguard Rea...

Sector Stock Performance May really wasn’t a very good month for utility investors, but it was a miserable month for investors in other sectors. Owners of the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF ( XLU ) should be happy with only losing 0.8% of their money over that span. The XLU is now a...

Thanks for joining us today on the Tortoise QuickTake Podcast . I’m James Mick, Managing Director and Energy Portfolio Manager with Tortoise. First, we would like to offer our sincere thank you to all our men and women of the armed forces as we spent yesterday remembering those who...

Background Information In this article, I review the Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Fund ( UTF ). I will review the major characteristics that I screen for when researching equities and also provide a comparison between UTF and one of its ETF peers in the infrastructure equity fund univ...

The U.S. Supreme Court says it will not review lower court decisions that upheld nuclear plant subsidy programs in Illinois and New York. More news on: Exelon Corporation, NRG Energy, Inc., Vistra Energy Corp., Energy stocks news, News on ETFs, Read more ...

The U.S. Commerce Department says it has submitted to the White House the results of a national security investigation into uranium imports . More news on: Energy Fuels Inc., Ur-Energy Inc., Dominion Energy, Inc., Energy stocks news, Commodities news, News on ETFs, Read more ...

Sector Stock Performance March was a decent month for the utility group, with the Utility Select Sector SPDR ETF ( XLU ) up 2.8%. This was the second straight month of outperforming the S&P 500, this time by nearly 100bp, but XLU still lags by about 280bp YTD. XLU was the fourth best-per...