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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:04:19 GMT

With the Obama administration now spreading around $3.4 billion in electrical infrastructure funding, it pays to know where the money's going. $3.4 billion in grants: Who won? Ways to play: stocks vs. ETFsSmart grid's ‘ripple effect’ on energy demand[More...]

Credit Market Overview 6.19.2009

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:09:54 GMT

The President, in his speech on Wednesday, outlined his plans for financial regulatory reform. The raison d'etre of this effort, it would appear, is to prevent what just happened from happening again. "Happened" might be a poor choice of words here as the world is still ...[More...]

Revisiting Some Previous Picks

Mon, 04 May 2009 15:51:00 GMT

The volatility in the markets over the past year has been staggering to say the least. Even during these turbulent times, I was always of the belief that utilities were relatively safe. As a result, I wrote about a few stocks in the past seven months or so that I thought were pretty good plays in the current market situation. For the most part, I was drawn to these stocks because of their potential for growth moving forward, their steady history, and their extremely strong dividends. Although “sure things” do not exist, I was fairly confident in the ability for these stocks to perform well. It has become quite evident that even with strong fundamentals such as those that these stocks possessed there is no guarantee that a stock is going to perform well. I thought that the safe play would be a large cap that boasted a high dividend. This is initially what attracted me to Southern Company ([More...]

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) Increases Dividend For 47th Consecutive Year

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:52:41 GMT

Thursday, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) declared a 6.5% increase in its quarterly dividend rate, from $0.46/share to $0.49/share (yield: 3.6%). This follows [More...]

A High Voltage Utility: Southern Company

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:17:00 GMT

A lot has happened in the markets in the past two weeks. From the biggest one week drop in history two weeks ago, to the best day in history on last Monday. Then, just as things appeared to have calmed down with a relatively mild day on Tuesday, the Dow suffered an 8% hit on Wednesday. I’m sure that if you are reading this article, you have most likely been following the markets and are well aware of all of this already. So, I am not going to go into further detail in this article but rather try to propose a stock that I feel is a safe play in this ridiculously volatile and risky market. That stock is The Southern Company (SO:[More...]

Yield To Dividends

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:47:00 GMT

Back from Key West thirty six hours late, thanks to Delta. I had the opportunity to read lots of financial clutter in paradise - a tedious task the Keys made pleasant. Between the Mohitos,fresh fish and other assorted culinary delights, I navigated a conclusion that earning a nice yield (assuming a stable dollar, more reasonable fuel cost expectations and other commodity cost stabilization) with ETFs and stocks that are less thrilling than the double shorts and other eclectic plays should be just fine for Mr. and Ms. Investor. And perhaps for more sophisticated investors such as yourself.The following ETFs are higher yielding securities that one may consider to fulfill this theme:HYG -iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond at 8.06% priced at $93.63IPE -SPDR Barclays CapiTIPS at 5.41% priced at $51.35LAG -SPDR Lehman Aggressive Bond at 4.87% priced at $52.78SDY -SPDR S&P Dividend at 4.63% priced[More...]

One-to-one launches: Middle-school portion of pilot program may start in January

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:51:00 GMT

Nov. 4--After teaching for 17 years, Dee Kramer's job is completely changing in a way that's new to her.
With the $1.3 million one-to-one laptop initiative at Charlestown High School starting, Kramer has to redo all her lesson plans to incorporate the new computer technology.
"It's scary for us teachers, but it's exciting."

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Smart Investing In Smart Grid

Credit Market Overview 6.19.2009

Revisiting Some Previous Picks

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) Increases Dividend For 47th Consecutive Year

A High Voltage Utility: Southern Company

Yield To Dividends

One-to-one launches: Middle-school portion of pilot program may start in January

Regulators OK Alabama Power cut; more may follow

Green groups appeal Ga. nuclear plant expansion

Southern Company Q3 Net Earnings Up

Southern Power to Acquire West Georgia Generating Company

Southern Company Appoints New Board Member

Southern Co. names Henry A. Clark III to board

Experts: State Economy Undergoing Changes: Influence of Construction, Retail Might Fall for Good

State Economy Undergoing Permanent Changes?

Southern Power Begins Construction on Power Plant in North Carolina

ExxonMobil Most Exposed, Southern Most Vulnerable and Exelon More Prosperous Under US Cap-and-Trade

Rapid7 NeXpose Receives NIST SCAP Validation

Georgia Transmission Corp. Completes Thomson-to-Warthen 500-kV Transmission Line

Experts Present Smart Grid Vision and Keys to Utility Customer Satisfaction at Apogee Conference

KBR Awarded Clean Coal Contract By Beijing Guoneng Yinghui Clean Energy Engineering Co., Ltd. For First Commercial TRIG Implementation Worldwide

ESRI's Electric & Gas User Group Conference Set for Atlanta in October

Southern Company CFO Paul Bowers to Present to 2009 Barclays Capital CEO Energy/Power Conference

Carrie Kurlander Named Vice President, Communications, for Southern Company

Southern Company Subsidiary Georgia Power Granted Approval to Amortize Asset Retirement Funds

Another Major Setback for 'Nuclear Renaissance': Industry Goes 0-6 in 2009 Efforts to Overturn State Bans on New Nuclear Reactors

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