FUTY News and Press, Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index From 06/19/19

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...

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...

The Vanguard Utility Index Fund ( VPU ) is a sector fund that all but the most conservative investors should avoid. Let’s first start with why the utility sector as a whole doesn’t look like a promising place to invest. Then we’ll go over some differences between the Vangu...

The Utilities sector ranks ninth out of the 11 sectors as detailed in our Q1'19 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter , the Utilities sector ranked eighth. It gets our Unattractive rating, which is based on an aggregation of ratings of the 69 stocks in the Utilities ...

Major U.S. pension funds are asking the 20 largest publicly traded electric utilities for detailed plans to achieve carbon-free electricity by 2050 at the latest but will not force the issue with proxy resolutions this spring, hoping market shifts and falling prices for renewable energy al...