When times get tough, equity investors often flock to defensive stocks. This is traditionally food and water, utilities, consumer products, tobacco, beer and booze, and other things that people have to have.…
This week's top value calls from the analysts at Jefferies focus on blue chip companies that are, for the most part, very liquid and offer a degree of safety for investors.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Friday morning include American Electric Power, Mobileye, PayPal, Phillips 66, Smith & Wesson and Viacom.
Insiders at some of the top companies made some of the biggest purchases this past week that we have seen in a while. And buying volume swamped selling volume.
A new Merrill Lynch research report makes the case that owning neglected stocks and selling crowded ones has been a winner, yielding almost 10% of alpha.
In the past five years the Dow Jones Utility Index is up a stunning 65%. But like all good things, this long run is probably close to over.
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FirstEnergy had a rough trading day on Thursday on news that it and American Electric Power are facing a regulatory review of Ohio power plant contracts.
In a new research report, Deutsche Bank remains bullish on utilities, especially those operating in Texas as the public utility commission recently decided against opening a generic tax proceeding.
The Merrill Lynch analysts have done their homework well, and while the upside here may not be gigantic, the safety factor is.
With the Chinese currency pegged to the U.S. dollar, any increase in fed funds rates could send the Chinese into devaluation mode, which could prove awful for world financial markets.
This year has not been very kind to the utilities sector, ahead of the Federal Reserve's expected interest rate hike cycle into 2016.
American Electric Power may have done well after earnings this week, but apparently Credit Suisse thinks the valuation merited a downgrade.
Jon C. Ogg Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include AbbVie, Alphabet, Amazon.com, American Electric Power, Apple, Microsoft, Pandora Media and McDonald's.
American Electric Power has been a solid dividend-paying electric utility, and the company just raised its dividend again.
Jon C. Ogg 
