Stocks in the U.S. utility sector are lagging the performance of the overall market so far this year. While the utilities was performing up until recently, last month they fell heavily. The proxy for sector, the SPDR Utilities Select Sector (XLU) was down 8.5% just in last month through the 30th and is up only about …
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The STOXX® Europe 600 Utilities Index can be considered as a proxy for the European utility sector. The index is comprised of 25 utilities from the continent. As of November 25, 2012 the index is down over 58% in the past five years in US $ terms. Since 2008, the index has been on a …
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The STOXX® Europe 600 Utilities index is down over 3% YTD (in terms of price in Euros) and is off about 22% in the past 52 weeks. In the past five years the index is down about 50%. Comprising of 27 of the largest utilities in Europe, the performance of the index in the 5-year …
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The following chart shows the world’s largest markets for electricity: Click to enlarge The U.S. and China consume more than four times the power consumed by the next largest market of Japan. With has a population of about 1.1 billion India’s power generation capacity is much lower than that of China. Though Russia has a …
The never-ending European debt crisis has flared again in recent weeks with Spain taking the center stage this past week. While Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Greece were in the news in the past couple of years this is the first time Spain is becoming the focus of investors’ attention. U.S. equity markets have performed well …
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