The president is responding radically to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Circumstances suggest the administration will tread more lightly when it comes to telecom and CO2.   Read More

The businesses backing Utility Forecaster Portfolio stocks have shed a lot of debt since 2001, when Enron provided the sector its own private Lehman Brothers. Read More

Doom and gloomers tell you there’s no safe investment that will grow your money. They’re wrong. Because there’s one investment you can still count on for income and growth so steady it’s paid 11.5%-a-year average returns for 20 years. Get in now and you could double… Read More

Where do investors go from here? My answer is the same as it’s been since before the fall of Lehman Brothers: high-yielding stocks backed by solid businesses. Read More

This week's market crash, in the wake of BP's (NYSE: BP) disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is an opportunity to consider again that solid businesses will weather all manner of uncertainty. Read More

Investors love bonds right now, despite the fact that yields are hardly attractive. Dividends paid by solid utilities are safer, however, and offer considerably more upside. Read More

Investing in overseas utilities confers the same advantages of predictable cash flow. But foreign jurisdictions aren't as unsettled when it comes to regulation and taxation. Go abroad for high income and currency gains. Read More

Several Portfolio recommendations, particularly high-yielding Canadian trusts and MLPs, have bounced around a bit. Volatility doesn't alter the fact that these companies continue to report solid operating results. Read More

The recent rush to sell new debt and the voracious consumption of these issues raises questions about whether bond buyers really are more savvy than equity investors. Today's yield simply don't adequately compensate you for prevailing risks. Read More

Great Plains Energy (NYSE: GXP) is bringing a significant power plant project in on time and on budget. This, coupled with a low payout ratio, spells Great Plains' exit from the Dividend Watch List. Read More