The puffs of air that sway the grass on a summer’s day, the result of the uneven heating of the earth and its rotation, are one key to reducing humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels. Wind could be key...
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The hunt for stocks with rising dividends: These fund managers have a strategy to keep your payouts growing
The broad stock-market rally so far in 2023 might make it easy to forget what a rough ride investors faced last year. It was a time when some active strategies focused on dividends, good cash-flow tre...
2 Natural-Gas Stocks to Play the Coming Rebound
The collapse in natural-gas prices in recent months has generated a fraction of the attention of the run-up of the first half of 2022. But it could dent 2023 profits industrywide—and dampen inflation ...
Nokia Earnings Top Expectations. India is Powering Its 5G Growth.
Nokia stock climbed on Thursday after the Finnish telecommunications company beat analysts’ expectations for its fourth-quarter earnings and sales, as 5G installation in countries such as India underp...
NRG stock bounces off more than 2-year low after dividend raised, to boost yield above 4.7%
Shares of NRG Energy Inc. NRG, +3.80% bounced 2.1% in morning trading Friday, after the electricity generator and natural gas services company boosted its quarterly dividend by 7.9%, to 37.75 cents a ...
Algonquin Power to cut dividend by 40%, provides downbeat profit outlook
Shares of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. AQN, -4.26% AQN, -4.67% turned lower to fall 2.2% in premarket trading Thursday, after the utility company said it was taking “decisive actions” to stre...
PPL plans dividend hike, to boost yield to 3.2%
PPL Corp. PPL, +2.09% said Wednesday that it plans to raised it quarterly dividend by 6.7%, to 24 cents a share. Based on Tuesday’s closing price of the electricity generation and transmission company...
CVS eyes next-generation health clinics after Amazon’s move for One Medical
CVS Health Corp. is investing in a young chain of health clinics, and may be looking to acquire another. CVS CVS, -0.12% invested $100 million in a Carbon Health Inc., a San Francisco-based chain of u...
Natural Gas Prices Are Coming Down. What to Expect for Energy Stocks.
The good news is that energy prices are coming down for households. The bad news is that energy stocks are feeling the pain. The best-performing sector in the stock market last year is finding itself ...
Leased electric vehicles now qualify for $7,500 tax break that kicks in Jan. 1
The U.S. Treasury Department will now allow electric vehicles that are leased to qualify starting Jan. 1 for up to $7,500 in clean vehicle tax credits. The law allows for a conditional $4,000 tax cred...
Gas prices are now lower than at this time last year. Could they fall below $3 a gallon in the months ahead?
Gas prices on Thursday were slightly less on average than they did one year ago — with a slim one-cent margin — but experts say there could be cheaper gas in the weeks and month to come. Thursday’s na...
Opinion: The new bull market will be led by stocks in these three industries.
We don’t know yet if the recent rally kicks off a new bull market in stocks. But here’s a safe bet: Once the new bull market is here, entirely different groups will lead. It’ll be out with the old — t...
Crypto and tech are the first dominoes to fall as stimulus liquidity dries up, says this money manager. Here’s what could happen next.
Read: Sequoia on its FTX investment: Some surprise to the upside, and some surprise to the downside JPMorgan is predicting a “cascade of margin calls, deleveraging and crypto company/platform failures...
These 27 stocks can give you a more diversified portfolio than the S&P 500 — and that’s a key advantage right now
You probably already know that because of market-capitalization weighting, a broad index such as the S&P 500 SPX, -0.80% can be concentrated in a handful of stocks. Index funds are popular for goo...
UBS has released its annual house-price bubble report. Here are the most overvalued markets.
The housing market is in something of its own recession as mortgage rates have surged. If the economist consensus is right about an existing home sales report due later in the morning, then sales will...
Nokia posts forecast-beating net profit
Nokia Corp. on Thursday posted a forecast-beating third-quarter net profit as demand for mobile networks and network infrastructure remained strong and supply-chain constraints eased. Nokia NOK, -1.94...
New England Risks Winter Blackouts as Gas Supplies Tighten
Listen to article (2 minutes) New England power producers are preparing for potential strain on the grid this winter as a surge in natural-gas demand abroad threatens to reduce supplies they need to g...
Nearing retirement? Here’s how to shift your portfolio from growth to income.
Over the decades, perhaps you’ve been very good at saving your money and investing it for long-term growth. But when the time comes for you to stop working or to step back to a part-time job, you migh...