UPW News and Press, ProShares Ultra Utilities From 02/18/21

Despite the S&P 500 being up an impressive 18% in 2020, the utilities sector did not take part in the rally finishing the year flat. Reaves' John Bartlett has spent nearly 30 years closely tracking Utilities names through every type of investing environment. With a blue wave s...

Risk assets continued their historic run last week with EM equities and commodities leading the way. Bonds sold off as the 10-year Treasury note yield broke above 1.20% for the first time since the lows last spring. The 10-year TIPS yield closed the week at 1.02%, near the all-tim...

Central banks, the Federal Reserve in particular, have really pivoted its policy approach to let inflation, if it were to start to pick up, to let it run a little bit hotter than maybe they have in prior cycles. Each energy cycle, I think, has played a part in influencing how investor...

Biden promised to roll back the Trump tax cuts. Utilities can benefit from higher taxes. With higher individual tax rates, the qualified dividends from utilities become more attractive. Utilities also are a defensive sector that will benefit from more infrastructure spending. ...

Utility companies (XLU) across the U.S. have allowed COVID-affected residential and small business customers to defer paying their power bills without the threat of losing service, but any economic recovery will be weighed by potentially huge debts to utilities - debts that have yet to be add...

In this article I will walk you through the commonly used but wrong way to think about volatility decay. We'll then walk through an example of volatility decay with realistic numbers. Afterwards, we'll build a simple mathematical model to calculate volatility decay from first prin...

The utilities group tops today's S&P sector leaderboard , as disappointing jobs data helped push U.S. Treasury yields to a fourth straight daily decline. More news on: Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF, Exelon Corporation, NiSource Inc., Energy stocks news, Stocks on the move, News on ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back Obama administration rules limiting levels of toxic materials in wastewater released from coal plants, in the Trump administration's latest attempt to reduce environmental regulations for the energy industry. More news on: The Southern ...

With the US 10-year Treasury rate still within striking distance of its all-time low of 0.54% from March, the search for yield has intensified for income seekers. Investors have historically turned to energy infrastructure and utilities for their high income, and while these sectors share many...

PG&E ( PCG +1% ) is upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays as part of an improved outlook for the utilities sector ( XLU -2.5% ), saying the market is "under-appreciaing and mispricing "the stability and visibility of utility earnings earnings during the COVID-19...