The subprime mortgage/high-yield meltdown continues to dominate the markets and financial media. There’s a good reason for that: The world’s financial markets are intimately connected in myriad ways, and none of us has a firm grip on all of them. Read More

I’m a glass-half-full guy. I always look for the bright side. And when things look their blackest, my every instinct is to buy, buy, buy. I’ve also been in the investment business long enough to know that things don’t always work out. Many times, where’s there’s smoke, there’s a raging blaze that will scorch anyone who gets too close. Businesses as cash-rich as investing do attract criminals. And you can’t always trust the numbers. Read More

Carbon regulation and divvying out wireless spectrum are shaping up as the primary national legislative issues for energy and communications utilities, respectively. Read More

The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield remained above 5 percent last month. The Portfolios, however, mostly returned to the upside because of... Read More

Vodafone may not offer 30 percent over market to buy Verizon Communications. But last month’s rumors again underscore that US utilities are... Read More

A Vodafone bid for US partner Verizon Communications may or may not be in the cards. But increasingly strong US utes, including the entire UF Portfolio... Read More

Regulated businesses provide steady cash flows, ensuring strong credit ratings and access to capital to expand well-run unregulated energy operations for growth. Read More

From late-2000 peak of more than $80 a share, AES Corp common shares plunged all the way to $1 by late 2002. Read More

DTE Energy sold a 50 percent interest in a portfolio of power and industrial projects to a unit of General Electric for $650 million in after-tax proceeds last month. Read More

Regulatory support: That’s the key to prosperity for energy, communications and water utilities all around the world. Read More