JHMU News and Press, John Hancock Multifactor Utilities From 10/11/19

By Jean-Hugues de Lamaze, Senior Portfolio Manager at the Ecofin Platform of Tortoise in the UK, in London Today, we would like to talk about utilities worldwide. A key day to speak about utilities actually as we just heard this morning additional negative news about California’s PG...

The Dow Jones Utility Average jumped 1.1% in today's trade to hit a record high , bucking losses in the broader market, helped by the 7th straight daily drop in the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield. More news on: Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF, American Water Works Company, Inc., Sempra...

The utilities sector ( XLU +0.4% ) trades in positive territory following the Fed's move to lower interest rates by 25 bps, as expected. More news on: Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF, PG&E Corporation, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, Energy stocks news, News on ETFs, Read m...

Nine utility companies file a legal challenge against the Trump administration's plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants which replaces the much tougher Obama-era rule. More news on: Consolidated Edison, Inc., Exelon Corporation, National Grid plc, Energy stocks news, News on ETFs...

The Utilities sector ranks tenth out of the 11 sectors as detailed in our Q3'19 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter , the Utilities sector ranked tenth. It gets our Unattractive rating, which is based on an aggregation of ratings of the 70 stocks in the Utilities...

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. - Abraham Lincoln If the bond market is to be believed, investors are bracing for recession. If anything, it looks like the trade war is escalating as China and the U.S. both decided t...

The utilities sector ( XLU +1% ) remains strong throughout this afternoon's sharp stock market downturn, and its showing ties back directly to the downward shift in Treasury yields. More news on: Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF, Dominion Energy, Inc., CMS Energy Corporation, News on ETF...

U.S. uranium producers recoup a little of last Friday's losses that followed reports Pres. Trump would decline to issue quotas for domestic uranium production, which the White House later confirmed ; UUUU +2.3% , URG +4.9% and UEC +6.1% after all lost more than a third of their...

Gainers:  Natural Gas 3X Long ETN Velocityshares (NYSEARCA: UGAZ )  +19.4% . Ultra DJ-UBS Natural Gas Proshares (NYSEARCA: BOIL )  +13.0% . Semiconductor Bull 3X Direxion (NYSEARCA: SOXL )  +10.6% . Ipatha.B Coffee Subindex TR ETN (NYSEARCA: JO )  +9.3% . Direxion ...

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...