The AI data-center power crunch has turned utilities from bond proxies into growth stocks, and two funds sit at the center of that trade: the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLU) and…
A once-in-a-decade heat dome baked the eastern United States this Fourth of July weekend. PJM Interconnection, which serves 67 million people across 13 states, believes that Friday’s demand passed a previous record…
Shares across the AI infrastructure complex are trading mixed after well-known short seller Jim Chanos publicly compared today's artificial intelligence capital spending boom to the 1999-2000 telecom build-out. NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock is…
For retirement-focused investors weighing the two dominant independent power producers cashing in on the AI data center buildout, the question is direct: Vistra (NYSE:VST | VST Price Prediction) or Constellation Energy (NASDAQ:CEG)…
The defensive utility trade is breaking. With the 10-year Treasury yield at 4.45% and near the 91.1 percentile of its trailing 12-month range, the “bond proxy” argument that long anchored retirement portfolios…
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…
The data center buildout doesn’t seem like it’s about to slow down. As more firms look to step up and supply AI compute, some of which (unlike the cash-rich hyperscalers) are risking…
Two of the most-watched political traders in America, on opposite ends of the spectrum, just bought the same stock. Nancy Pelosi disclosed a Vistra (NYSE:VST | VST Price Prediction) stock purchase tied…
Everyone’s talking about Vistra (NYSE:VST | VST Price Prediction) right now because retail investors have decided the merchant power producer is the cleanest way to bet on AI data center electricity demand.…
Shares of Oklo (NYSE:OKLO | OKLO Price Prediction) are up roughly 13% in midday trading Wednesday after the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved the Principal Design Criteria for the company’s Aurora…
Every dollar of AI capex eventually has to plug into a wall. By the time hyperscalers have signed off on GPU orders, the binding constraint stops being silicon and starts being substations,…
If your electricity bill jumped this year, you’re not imagining it. The driver is the server racks humming inside warehouses going up across Virginia, Texas, Ohio, and Arizona, more than summer heat…
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS | MS Price Prediction) recently provided more insight into the state of the AI boom and the infrastructure deficit that could define it in the near future. As a…
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…
The CEO of Intelligent Alpha has a clear thesis for 2026: personal AI is the dominant theme, and two Mag-7 giants are best positioned to own it. “You have to look at…
