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Bullish on SO ...
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Southern Company (SO:NYSE) is an electric utility with 4.4 million customers in one of the fastest-growing regions of the country - the Southeast. SO generates 42,000 megawatts of capacity. Thirty-five thousand of these megawatts go to places like homes and small businesses that pay under government regulation plans - and 5,500 megawatts of wholesale generation are sold to large companies like steel mills through purchase power agreements. <> The company is in a unique position because during the past two years, state government regulatory boards have raised electricity rate...
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Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF
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-7.95%
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307 days
Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF The table at my website link below contains 35 companies included in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Highly Defensive PerformIdex which are based in the U.S., Canada, and Europe with market caps over $10B that are the leaders by market cap in their defensive industry groups. The index includes 23 consumer staples and healthcare companies, with the remaining 12 companies chosen from a variety of other defensive industry groups. <> (A) Mass Merchant Dis...
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Bullish on SO ...
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This company has paid very good dividends year after year, very consistant.
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Expanding Defensive Growth Index into Europe
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+0.99%
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90 days
(closed on 01/21/09)
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<> The accompanying table presents an updated version of the ETFI Highly Defensive PerformIdex, which is expanded to 40 companies with market caps of at least $10B from the industry groups listed below. This defensive growth index is heavily weighted in consumer staples and healthcare and is now structured to include companies based in Europe, in addition to the United States and Canada.
Compared to the previous version, this index has a lower beta and higher average market cap and adds European companie...
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Nuclear Power to offset rising power costs
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-13.69%
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574 days
As the costs of energy and food continue to rise due to interrelated causes, I believe that the Southern Company, with its emphasis on nuclear power, will make large strides ahead of the pack and distinguish itself as an unconventional thinker in what could be the dawn of a new nuclear power age.
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From the Blogosphere
Neil's George's income trio
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 In his Stocks that Pay You advisory, Neil George searches for intriguing income-oriented ideas. Here, he reviews a trio of yield plays related to the airline, utilty and energy sectors.
"One of my favorite individual mini-bonds is from my favorite air transporter AMR Corporation; the company's latest quarterly report showed a slowing of losses, reduced costs and more importantly a major series of capital infusions. <>"This continues to bring more and more credibility to the balance sheet and proves out what I've been writing about this company for years now: It has the ability and the where...
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Where should granny put $50,000?
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+0.13%
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Filed under: Getting started, McDonald's (MCD), Diageo plc (DEO), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Altria Group (MO), Novartis AG ADS (NVS), Automatic Data Proc (ADP), Kellogg Co (K), Consolidated Edison (ED), General Mills (GIS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Merck and Co (MRK), Duke Energy (DUK), Personal finance, S and P 500, Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO), Annaly Capital Management (NLY) <> One of my wonderful friends, Ms. P, asked me for some guidance on how she might allocate $50,000 currently earning peanuts in a money market account. Though she is decades from becoming a grandmother, after a...
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Southern Co.: A play for low-risk investors
Serious Money: Not cheating -- market waving the caution flag
Filed under: International markets, Market matters, Diageo plc (DEO), Chevron Corp (CVX), Verizon Communications (VZ), BHP Billiton Ltd ADR (BHP), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Serious Money, Commodities, Oil, Anglo Amer ADR (AAUK), Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO), Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Williams Companies (WMB), Olin Corp. (OLN)  <font>In a race, whe</font><font>n the yellow caution flag is out drivers are prohibited from advancing their position, and are subject to penalty.
In the stock market no such rule applies. When the caution flag goes up it is a sign you may be nearing an o...
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Serious Money: Three more stocks that beat the market: BHP, RTN, SO
SO
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+2.32%
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(closed on 10/09/09)
Filed under: BHP Billiton Ltd ADR (BHP), Serious Money, Commodities, S and P 500, Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO), Raytheon Company (RTN), Best Stocks for 2009  After finding three stocks yesterday that were a good bet to beat the the S&P 500 index going forward, I decided to pursue this notion further. Each of yesterday's stocks was in a different industry that will have strong recurring revenue and pays a dividend; energy, food and booze.<>Today's three stocks are in diversified mining, electric power utilities and high-tech defense. Going back ten years, they have all trounced the index...
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