Failure to ratify the merger of the No. 2 and the No. 4 wireless companies will have negligible impact within US borders. Customers will continue to flock to companies with the scale necessary to build robust networks. Read More

The market has had plenty of time to price in most of the ramifications of the debt ceiling debate. Dividend-paying essential-service stocks remain the best protection against any market tumult. Read More

The recent selloff has many stocks trading with extremely attractive dividend yields. Make sure you know how to separate wealth-building wheat from capital-killing chaff. Read More

A recent acquisition will more than double Atlantic Power Corp's (TSX: ATP, NYSE: AT) generating capacity and lays the foundation for future growth by adding talented people, extending the financial base and further diversifying the power mix. Read More

Energy Transfer Partners LP (NYSE: ETP) is expanding rapidly into natural gas liquids infrastructure, a strategy that promises to support dividend growth in 2011 and beyond. Read More

Empire District Electric (NYSE: EDE) has suspended its dividend for the remainder of 2011, though management intends to pick up payments in 2012 at a reduced rate of 25 cents per share per quarter. Read More

A recent Supreme Court ruling gives the EPA power to regulate carbon emissions. The impact so far has been to get at least one major power producer to do what it already would have done to replace inefficient coal plants. Read More

The key to building wealth over the long term is to buy high-quality dividend-paying stocks at reasonable prices. Read More

Over the last 100 years not a single union between essential-service companies has failed. Here are nine ways to play the latest round of consolidation. Read More