The Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLU) has quietly become one of the more interesting trades in the market because it sits at the intersection of two crosscurrents. Hyperscaler power demand has…
Wages fluctuate. Bonuses get cut. Side hustles burn out. Dividend income, by contrast, lands in a brokerage account on a schedule the holder did not negotiate and a boss cannot revoke. For…
For most of its life, the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLU) was the financial equivalent of a thermostat. You set it, you forgot it, and it quietly produced a check every…
On a recent Prof G Markets segment, data center veteran John Perella described a near-miss in Virginia that should focus every infrastructure investor’s attention. “9 data centers went offline or they went…
Earned income has a ceiling. Passive income arrives whether you work or not, whether markets are calm or chaotic, whether the economy is expanding or contracting. For income-focused investors, the goal is…
Every major AI buildout has needed one thing before the servers could run: reliable power. The electricity grid is the binding constraint on how fast AI can scale, making utilities one of…
The S&P 500 is down 7% year-to-date. VPU is up 7% over the same stretch. That divergence is exactly what utilities are supposed to do. What VPU Is Actually Designed to Do…
Utilities have long been the portfolio’s boring backbone: predictable dividends, regulated cash flows, and a tendency to hold up when riskier assets sell off. Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF (NYSEARCA:FUTY) packages that…
Mizuho is pushing back on what it sees as an overstated threat to Southern Company (NYSE:SO | SO Price Prediction), maintaining its Outperform rating after conversations with parties in Alabama suggested the…
Joel South Southern Company (NYSE: SO | SO Price Prediction) has paid a dividend for 78 consecutive years and raised it for 24 consecutive years, putting it near Dividend Aristocrat status. With the stock…
Trey Thoelcke History shows that midterm election years aren’t always great years for the S&P 500. Are you properly protected against the full blow of a 2026 market crash? Probably not, but there are…
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading lower as we wrap up the holiday-shortened week that gave us a little taste of just about everything. While Walmart posted results that beat expectations, its…
Retiring at 67 with $6,500 in monthly income places you solidly in middle-class territory, but the financial reality behind that figure is more nuanced than it appears. The average Social Security retirement…
Watch the Video Lee and I discussed one of the most overlooked realities of artificial intelligence. None of it works without electricity. For a while, there was a belief that data centers…
These four highest-yielding S&P 500 utility stocks are strong buys for 2026 after a big pullback.
