Not all stocks are in turmoil. The great thing about the worst of bear markets is that if you work hard enough you can find something that’s still making money. Read More

Stocks aren’t sunk, but with major stock market indexes showing losses of as much as 20 percent, it’s harder and harder to remain patient. Read More

In part one of our coverage we focused on the mega-capitalized companies that, beyond merely dominating the water industry, are havens in a troubled stock market. Read More

After a seven-year rally, US real estate investment trusts (REIT) have hit on hard times. Since its February 2007 peak, Vanguard REIT ETF, modeled on the broad-based MCSI REIT Index, has plunged more than 30 percent. Read More

Slowing economies, mounting credit risks and across-the-board financial turmoil: That doesn’t leave much in the way of fertile ground for cash-generating investments. But you subscribe because we dig for profitable stocks, bonds and funds. Read More

Like most US limited partnerships (LP), TEPPCO Partners shares have had a rough go of it this year. TEPPCO, though, has continued to post solid results while expanding its business and lifting its distribution every two quarters like clockwork. Read More

Winter prices for natural gas in the UK spiked to an all-time high of nearly $20 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) in late August. As the graph “Euroga$” shows, the widely watched 12-month natural gas strip in the UK—the average of the next twelve months of futures prices—also spiked to just under the highs set earlier this summer. Read More

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Utilities, long a bastion of safety in down markets, have given up some ground since the start of the credit crisis. Sector losses, however, haven’t run as deep as the market at large. And if you owned preferred shares in some of nation’s best-run utility companies, you’ve probably fared even better. Read More

Despite all the attention and talk regarding the presidential candidates and the major campaign issues, there’s little analysis on how the election will affect the most important parts of the federal bureaucracy: US defense and intelligence circles. Read More