Utilities are the proverbial red-headed stepchild of stock market sectors. During bull markets (so the thinking goes), utilities tend to underperform more aggressive sectors like technology or industrials. But during a good market rout, utilities take a beating along with the rest. How unloved are utilities? As I wrote in a recent article, they were...Read More

The financial press is not particularly good at forecasting market moves or giving reliable investment advice.  In fact, it’s generally awful at both.  (It’s a structural flaw; markets are forward looking, anticipating what will happen, while journalism is backward looking, explaining after the fact what already has happend). But if the financial press is truly good...Read More