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7 Reasons To Own Utilities After The Recent Pullback
Eric Parnell • Sun, Jun 16 • 13 Comments
The Historic Utility Sell-Off
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3 Ways To Play Utilities
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Utilities: How Much Longer Can They Power Up
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Utilities' Dividends Look Unsustainable
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Why Investors Are Selling Utility ETFs Before The Fiscal Cliff
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Bullish Divergence In Utilities
Andrew Thrasher • Tue, Nov 27, 2012 • 4 Comments
The Utility Sector On Discount Plus One For The Radar
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Recent Price Dip Ideal For Investors To Buy Utilities
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Unlike QE1 And QE2, Utilities Are Not Underperforming After QE3
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Finding The Most Powerful ETF
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Obama Tax Hikes May Lead To Utilities Sell-Off: Stay Away From The Sector
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Utilities: Summer's Safe Haven
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The New Breed Of Energy Suppliers
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Utilities ETFs Outperforming On Stability, Dividends
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Reversal Of Fortune: Utilities
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This ETF Offers A Bastion Of Stability In An Uncertain Market
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Wednesday's ETF To Watch: Utilities Select Sector SPDR
Jared Cummans • Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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Low Risk Opportunities in Utility Stocks
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Fed's Upcoming Policy Likely To Benefit This Sector
Horizon Investments • Wed, Jun 19 • 3 Comments
Dividend Stocks Continue To Look Attractive
The Outsider • Wed, Jun 19 • 1 Comment
Winners And Losers Since The May 21 Market Peak
Bespoke Investment Group • Mon, Jun 17
Stocks: The Cost Of Winning Every Day
Eric Parnell • Fri, Jun 14 • 14 Comments
Allete Inc.: A 3.98% Yield Coupled With A Significant Increase In Earnings
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Cyclical Sector ETFs Can Perform In A Rising Rate Environment
Tom Lydon • Thu, Jun 13
The Death Of Bonds Is Greatly Exaggerated
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Big Banks: This Decade's Best Sector For Dividend Growth
Mike Williams • Tue, Jun 11 • 8 Comments
Summer Stocks
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Chesapeake Utilities A Standout Utility Dividend Stock
Richard Shaw • Tue, Jun 11 • 1 Comment
A Major Market Turning Point May Be Struck Next Week
Eric Parnell • Mon, Jun 10 • 51 Comments
Utilities ETFs Could Be Vulnerable To Dividend Cuts
Benzinga • Mon, Jun 10
Weakness In Defensive Utilities Drags On Low-Volatility ETFs
Tom Lydon • Mon, Jun 10
The Great Rotation Within Equities - How Valuations And Bond Yields Are Raising New Market Leaders
Option Millionaires • Mon, Jun 10
Sell-off In Utilities Stocks Creates A Good Entry Point For These 5 Electric Utilities Stocks
Gary Cheng • Fri, Jun 7 • 5 Comments
FirstEnergy: 5.64% Yield With Growth On The Horizon
Jeff Williams • Thu, Jun 6 • 5 Comments
Cramer's Mad Money - Pandora Shouldn't Go Against A Wounded Apple (6/5/13)
SA Editor Miriam Metzinger • Thu, Jun 6 • 1 Comment
Breadth Hanging In There
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Perils Of Using Covered Calls To Generate Portfolio Income: Update
Gary Jakacky • Tue, Jun 4 • 32 Comments
The Asset Class Serial Killer: Who's Next?
Eric Parnell • Tue, Jun 4 • 21 Comments

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Final Trade: Your First Move for Monday, June 10

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Cramer: After Selloff, What to Buy & What to Avoid

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Cramer: Once Loved, These Stocks May Burn You

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Market Extra: Utility stocks drop as bond yields rise

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Market Snapshot: Stock-market rally takes a new turn as tech leads

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Mark Hulbert: What to do when your investment adviser resigns

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J.J. Zhang's Winner Take All: Why being defensive has played well in this rally

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Week Ahead: Sell the Leaders or Buy High?

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If This is the Start of a Correction, It's Going to be Pretty Tame

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Cramer: As Utilities, Pharma Advance, Should You Retrench?

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J.J. Zhang's Winner Take All: A stock strategy to weather the downturn

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Wednesday, June 19, 10:53 AM "Sell in May and go into cyclicals," says Ralph Acampora after the last month. He reminds of an old adage saying sectors going down the least during a selloff become the new market leaders. During SPY's 5.2% decline from May 22-June 6, the best performers were Tech (XLK) and Industrials (XLI). The worst were Telecommunications (IYZ) and Utilities (XLU). This "rolling rotation" between sectors is necessary, he says, to give further life to the secular bull market begun in March 2009. 3 Comments
Tuesday, June 18, 9:11 AM BAML private clients bought the dip last week, with the flows going via ETFs into large-cap and dividend plays like Utilities (XLU, IDU) - which saw the greatest buying since November 2011. Another favorite of the dividend crowd, Telecoms (IYZ) saw the biggest inflows since February. After buying through the spring, hedge funds turned sellers last week, and are now net-sellers YTD - just like 2012. Comment!
Monday, June 17, 2:47 PM Stocks give up more than half of their earlier gains 75 minutes before the bell, the S&P 500 (SPY +0.4%). It's those interest rates again. Quiet for most of the day, rates began turning higher (TLT -0.4%) just after lunch, and the 10-year yield is now up 4 bps to 2.17%. Favorites of the dividend players, health care (XLV) and utilities (XLU) underperform - just flat on the session. 3 Comments
Monday, June 17, 12:56 PM More from Zulauf at Barron's: Taking issue with the gathering consensus of a stronger economy and the Fed pulling back, Zulauf suggests bond yields (TLT, TBT) may have stopped rising and could be set to fall. In conjunction with that view, noncyclical names (XLU, XLV) could be set for a comeback at the expense of cyclical sectors (XLV, XLB, XLE). Comment! [Quick Ideas]
Friday, May 31, 7:50 PM Look for any piece of news that smacks of an improving economy to send stocks falling next week, warns CNBC's Jim Cramer. Why? Big money investors will interpret any positive economic signs as a signal that the Fed is about to pull back economic stimulus rather than risk runaway inflation. Still, he says, there may be opportunities in the pullback, particularly in the bank, tech and industrial spaces. Just says away from anything with a higher yield, like utilities and MLP's. 37 Comments [U.S. Economy, Quick Ideas]
Friday, May 31, 2:49 PM Stocks turn lower (DIA -0.5%) 90 minutes ahead of the bell as Treasury prices tumble anew (TLT -1.2%), the 10-year yield gaining another 9 bps to 2.20%. The levered Treasury short ETF (TBT +2.5%) hits a 52-week high. Again hardest hit are the previously hot defensive sectors whose yields no longer stand so tall over Treasurys. Health care (XLV -1.1%), Consumer staples (XLP -1.1%). Utilities (XLU +0.1%) however, get a respite from an ugly month. 6 Comments
Thursday, May 30, 4:58 PM The utilities sector (XLU +0.2%), up as much as 2% early after NV Energy (NVE +22.5%) agreed to be acquired by Berkshire Hathaway at a hefty premium, wound up surrendering the bulk of its gains. Utilities remain May's weakest performer, down 8.5%, as rising interest rates, optimism over economic growth and a downbeat reading on future electricity prices send yield-seekers rotating into cyclicals. Comment! [Energy]
Thursday, May 30, 3:22 PM The Utilities Select Sector ETF (XLU) - which outpaced the broader averages for much of the year - is on pace for its worst month since the dark days of February 2009, off 7.9% thus far. The steady dividend payers have been sought-after commodities for some time, but a 50 bp rise to 2.12% in May has the 10-year Treasury offering a bit of competition. 2 Comments [Energy]
Wednesday, May 29, 11:15 AM Stocks tumble to session lows in late-morning trade, the DJIA (DIA -1%) off 168 points. Gravity continues to take hold of the previously-leading defensive sectors as their dividends are starting to face competition from Treasurys - Healthcare (XLV -1.7%), Utilities (XLU -1.9%), Consumer staples (XLP -1.8%). Residing in tech, but favored for its high dividend, Verizon (VZ -2.9%) is off about 5% from its gap open yesterday. 3 Comments
Tuesday, May 28, 2:59 PM If long-term Treasury yields keep rising, dividend-seeking investors in utilities (XLU -1.4%) will wonder how the lights went out for the sector, 24/7's Jon Ogg writes. The risk isn't only that investors may go elsewhere for yield; utilities have high operating costs and they borrow heavily to pay for infrastructure investments. Today's analyst downgrades only magnify what investors have to fear. 5 Comments [Energy]
Tuesday, May 28, 11:45 AM As stocks move broadly higher, utilities (XLU) lag following downgrades of Exelon (EXC -7.1%) and First Energy (FE -6.7%) by Deutsche Bank based on "the ugly reality of the 2016-17 RPM auction results." The firm sees downside in all integrated power names as the "uncertain path to a power market recovery forces investors to reconsider the multiples paid for commodity cyclical power generation assets." (earlier) 4 Comments [Energy, On the Move]
Friday, May 24, 2:25 PM There's some green on the screen about 90 minutes before the bell with the Dow (DIA, DOG) nosing into positive territory and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq now lower by only a hair. Today's weakest sector is the utilities (XLU -1.1%), continuing a bad month that's seen the once-leading group underperform the S&P by nearly 1000 basis points. YTD, the S&P's now ahead of utilities by about 500 bps. 2 Comments
Thursday, May 23, 12:50 PM The defensive utility sector (XLU -1%) isn’t looking very safe at the moment, as the break below the 50-day moving average suggests further weakness in the days ahead. Technician Ralph Acampora sees the break as a short-term sell for the Dow Jones Utility index but also a longer-term positive for the broader market as investors rotate out of defensive sectors and into more economically sensitive stocks. 1 Comment [Energy, Quick Ideas]
Monday, May 13, 2:13 PM Defensive stocks such as utilities (XLU -0.4%), which have led this year’s market surge, are fading, and investors should consider cyclical sectors such as tech and energy for long-term value, BlackRock's Russ Koesterich recommends. The utilities sector is overpriced and probably has more room to fall, but investors starved for yields should look at dividend-paying companies from outside the U.S. Comment! [Energy, Tech]
Thursday, May 9, 12:12 PM Stocks recover from early losses, returning to about unchanged in the noon hour. Notably lower today is the utility sector (XLU -1.2%) which is used to outperforming, but not this month. Ahead of the S&P 500 by about 700 basis points at the start of May, the XLU is now even with the broader market for the year. 3 Comments
Monday, May 6, 7:27 AM The S&P 500 (SPY) is fairly valued, says Goldman, but opportunity lies in cyclicals (XLY, XLE, XLI, XLB) which are more undervalued vs. defensives (XLU, XLP, XLV, XTL) than at any time in the last 15 years. "Given the 4 P/E multiple point head start, even a slight valuation normalization should translate into outperformance of cyclicals over defensives during the next 12 months." 1 Comment

techwonk
$XLU nearing 200-day moving average. Outlook still bearish
Jun 12, 4:18 PM
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techwonk: "don't spit into the wind" as the song says...dollar-cost-averagers excepted, I wouldn't be adding on here... even dca's might delay a month
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techwonk: inverse etf is $SDP, since it is thinly traded, I would not recommend this product for hedging a large position
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Chines33
$XLU $XLP MLP look nasty $XLF looks fantastic. Been beating this drum for several weeks here. Ahead of these drops that are starting.
May 30, 7:26 PM
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markrpat: replace "fed policy" with "world cetnral bank policy, and currency disputes"
May 30, 7:59 PM
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markrpat: srry to steal the thread - this rotation from defensive stocks to cyclical/financial/energy based on interest rates no promise at all.
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Tony Kau
Tons of Credit Spread Options opportunities today! $XLU Jun 36/35 Puts @ 0.09 (93% chance of profit) & $EWZ Jun 49/48.5 Puts @ 0.05
May 29, 3:07 PM
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Pendulum
10-YR at 2.11%, highest yield in >1 year and big risk for all markets, see http://seekingalpha.com/a/vc7b $TLT $SPY $QQQ $XLU $IYR $HYG $JNK
May 28, 11:56 AM
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Clayton Rulli
$XLU took a dump
May 23, 10:29 AM
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jmok322: Good time to get in?
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Alan Brochstein
$XLU has pulled back sharply. Is $XLP next
May 12, 3:54 PM
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Ryan Mallory
Evening Tape: Fed Rumors Scare, Bank & Utilities Drag http://bit.ly/131F4XK $SPY $XLF $XLU
May 9, 6:11 PM
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Clayton Rulli
Utilities near 5 year high. $XLU !
Apr 29, 3:01 PM
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Clayton Rulli
$CCI still strong... $XLU has been very solid also
Apr 19, 10:23 AM
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ONeil Trader
More evidence the market is in trouble http://goo.gl/GHH3w $SPY $IWM $TLT $XHB $XLU
Apr 17, 10:41 AM
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techwonk
$XLU nearing 200-day moving average. Outlook still bearish
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techwonk: "don't spit into the wind" as the song says...dollar-cost-averagers excepted, I wouldn't be adding on here... even dca's might delay a month
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Chines33
$XLU $XLP MLP look nasty $XLF looks fantastic. Been beating this drum for several weeks here. Ahead of these drops that are starting.
May 30, 7:26 PM
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markrpat: replace "fed policy" with "world cetnral bank policy, and currency disputes"
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Clayton Rulli
$XLU took a dump
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jmok322: Good time to get in?
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tr4head
Biggest buy on the planet right now are US Utilities (XLU).
11/7/12
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tr4head: I think no matter the dividend hike next year (if it happens) you can't beat a yield of almost 4% in zero rates world as far as you can see.
11/17/12
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tr4head: You be happy man now! Nice upswing in XLU.
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Ryan Mallory
Energy Stocks Oil Special Trend Analysis Report | http://bit.ly/WMMxIw $USO $XLU $XLE
Jan 29, 12:51 PM
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Sir. Monaco: interesting read, whats your read on the trend in the oils? manufacturing increasing and using more natty-gas and oils, etc.
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FortSumter
$XLU Bought Jan $36 calls for $0.14 Nice uptrend starting on charts. Volume increasing, money moving in.
11/27/12
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bradyc: I bought Dec 35 for 0.29
11/27/12
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FortSumter: Good luck to us then! :)
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David Jackson
The only sectors which are up over the last 3 months are $XLP $XLU $XLV. What does this tell you: http://bit.ly/6A4AdX
7/30/12
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Ocean Man: Tells me to sell some defensives tomorrow. No QE Wed = they'll drop with market. Yes QE = they fall out of favor.
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eabyrd
$XLU looking like it may be a decent short... triple top at 37.25 area.
7/13/12
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OneLongTrade: Thanks for pointing that out. I also see a negative divergence on the RSI. But I wouldn't short until a confirmed breakdown below that 20SMA
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Saibus Research
If You Like Duke Energy, You'll Love Wisconsin Energy http://seekingalpha.com/a/eic7 $DUK, $EXC, $DUK, $SO, $WEC, $XLU
6/22/12
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Hillbilly Stock Star: STR, OKE, DUK, MDU,..........long.
6/22/12
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Youngone91
XLU is the move
4/4/12
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Funkengruven: seems to be moving lower on weak volume at the moment...
4/4/12
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Michael A. Gayed
Safety trade in Utilities (XLU) and long bonds (TLT) getting slaughtered. Money looks to be getting more aggressive.
3/16/12
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Josh Krause: But we'll probably rally regardless.
3/16/12
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Michael A. Gayed: Focus less on tops and bottom. Focus more on conditions.
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Chines33
Bought XLU 34.90
2/27/12
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Market Maven: defensive. very nice.
2/27/12
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Rummeljordan: Should have got in at 33!
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Michael A. Gayed
Market internals still look good today with defensive sectors like XLU down more than SPY alongside strongs TIPS (TIP).
2/21/12
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Robin Heiderscheit: I dunno, IWM continues to underperform today and breadth is poor. Plus VIX seems to be bottoming. On correction alert with tight stops.
2/21/12
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Michael A. Gayed: Agree that there are some negatives. Actually writing out the Lead-Lag Report as I send this. Conditions remain more + than -.
2/21/12
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Michael A. Gayed
XLF and XLU fighting it out...rare to see days where Financials and Utilities are both doing well.
1/31/12
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Trader14: What about days where tech and treasuries do well?
1/31/12
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shaker33: Better take a look at those ATAC models.
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Chines33
Sitting here hedged but what a run in EMC DD XLU outperforming my shorts by a long shot this week. NIce scalp trades in TVIX SWK short SLV
1/25/12
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Chines33: Through THRM and a big trade a few weeks ago in ETN in there as well...all posted.
1/25/12
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bkamjoo: do you think SBUX wl rally on Friday?
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