Sentences with phrase «good utility vest»

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If a choice has to be made, I think it would be better to go with Maple — but regulators and policymakers should specify some variant of the «regulated monopoly» solution used in the utility industry.

«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.

In the periods since the stock market peaked for the year in January, and after its most recent top mid-March, utilities, traditionally a defensive group of companies, have been the best - performing sector.

In fact, over the past two years, while the S&P 500 has jumped nearly 30 percent, the utilities sector has gained only 6.5 percent — besting only the consumer staples and real estate sectors during that time.

«When the daily habits of nearly 17,000 utility workers in France were monitored throughout the 1990s, researchers discovered that their degree of social involvement was a good way to predict who would still be alive at the end of the decade,» she claims, for example.

Maggie Koerth - Baker, author of Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us, says utilities simply haven't done a good enough job of explaining the idea.

Working with Best Buy, Fling saw that the company could provide customers other valuable utilities on the mobile site, such as a tool to alert customers when a store has an item, and to be able to hold it if they do.

LOS ANGELES — Sport - utility vehicles have been stealing the spotlight at the LA Auto Show this year, and Lexus led the way with the debut of extra-large versions of its best - selling RX crossover.

If utilities such as Water Corporation can't fulfill their primary responsibility to the public, maybe an alternative ownership model would be a better option.

They built a novelty that was good for a chuckle and had just enough utility to convince a few people to part ways with a small amount of cash and give it a spin.

However, info tech stocks, utilities and consumer staple stocks (in that order) have shown good increases as well.

Most of the items in today's round - up from CES actually have a good degree of utility, with the potential for mass consumer adoption.

Cut Utility Bills Now is a good time to compare the choices you have for providing heat and electricity in your home office.

Because the local utility, NV Energy, generates a good portion of its sales from casinos, the state's regulators said casinos would have to pay tens of millions of dollars to detach from the utility and generate all of their own power.

Burying all those utility lines would certainly be a good stimulus program for the economy.

Utilities do a pretty good job of trying to promote new programs, but you almost need to have a PR campaign by the government, or go door - to - door, knocking, to tell these guys about the deals.

One that still doesn't have a good API and doesn't really have much utility (I expect that Google will have a LOT to say when it introduces the final product in 2014).

The higher your margin the better, because you need to have enough left over to pay your indirect costs or overhead (things like salaries, rent, advertising, telephone, and utilities) and still make money.

Ant Financial has already signed a memorandum of understanding with Rongcheng, whose residents will be able to pay their utility bills using Alipay and show their Zhima Credit score — if high enough — to obtain better health insurance and borrow library books and rent public bikes without a deposit.

Not only am I on a first - name basis with most of the head purchasers and tool room managers of the biggest utilities in the Northwest, but there is such a small internet presence for the industry online that even the most rudimentary of Google Adwords campaigns (or something similar) would land a well - built page in the top five within a few months.

This has included Chinese takeovers of companies in robotics, semiconductors, machine - tools, telecoms, agribusiness, food, as well as infrastructures such as ports, airports, railways and energy utilities.

California has set a new record for peak output of utility - scale solar at more than 10.5 GW, as well as for renewable energy overall.

No doubt the REITs and utilities are still very popular choices but now we have quite a few names in other sectors to contend with as well.

Utilities account for just 2 %, even though their benefits would seem to mesh well with what most investors want.

Best says prime short targets are interest rate - sensitive stocks such as REITs, utilities and infrastructure, which have rebounded strongly from the November lows.

Covers the purpose of tokens and their two primary values in today's offerings: (1) utility and (2) speculation, as well as what would make a Token a security

Most utilities are known to distribute a good part of their earnings, but I would like to see a cash payout ratio under 100 % going forward.

This includes how timely you pay your utility bills, the lease payments on your business location, as well as any small business debt you may have.

Although the final tax reform policy keeps the subsidies in place, some market analysts have grown concerned that these developments — as well as regulatory hurdles for new wind projects — will prohibit or slow the rate of deployment of renewable energy by utilities in the U.S.

While the consumer discretionary, technology, and healthcare sectors have held up relatively well, other sectors (like energy, utilities and material) haven't.

As with any other retail business, you'll have legal and marketing costs, as well as rent, utilities and advertising.

4) Price caps on utility charges will generally seem like a good idea to the people who currently benefit due to having lower electricity or water bills.

Keeping Warren Buffett's advice «it is far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price» in mind, I zeroed in on Dominion Resources (Symbol: D) as the utility company to purchase.

Utilities have been among the best - performing sectors this year.

We have been looking for sometime to add a good utility company to our DGI portfolio.

Thanks for droping by Dividendsdiversity Yes utilities are a good bargan now as almost all of them has suffered good dip lately.

But you know let's look at the utility value of some of these alternative currencies and I'm including precious metals are the historical safe haven because they have intrinsic value and in the case of silver they have utility value as well.

What I like is that this company has one of the lowest leverage compared to other companies with NetDebt / EBITDA of 5,3 which is quite good for a Utility company taking into account that average of peers is around 6.

For those looking to dip their toe in the water utility space, we think investors would be well served taking a closer look at the U.S.'s two largest players, American Water Works Co. (AWK) and Aqua America (WTR).

Ideally, when it comes to which sectors you're investing in, you'll have a nice mix of both defensive and cyclical stocks — meaning companies that should hold up well in all kinds of markets (like utilities) and others that can be expected to perform particularly well in certain economic environments (like hotels and restaurants, which benefit when the economy is booming).

In a new collaborative report, «An Underappreciated Disruptor,» Morgan Stanley's Utility and Clean Tech analyst, Stephen Byrd and Shared Mobility & Auto analyst, Adam Jonas, argue that the price of both solar and wind energy, as well as new storage units, have reached a point where renewable energy can finally become a dependable rather than an unpredictable source of energy.

And over the years its count of utility - scale solar has often fallen well below what is reported by GTM Research and Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) in their quarterly U.S. Solar Market Insight reports.

This trend would push investors back into bonds and cause the price of Utilities to fall back to a level that better reflects their cash flows and risks.

Consequently, since the SEC report was issued, well - organized ICOs typically have highlighted the utility function of the tokens, rather than investment opportunities — and have required U.S. participants to meet qualified investor requirements.

And thank you America for the freedom of speech you granted the world and has provided us the utilities of communications asking us to contribute with our expressions towards» Change for the Good of ship and passengers on board» since there is no Ark better than earth to save us in this wide unpredictable space?!

Schwartz borrowed this concept from Nobel laureate Herbert Simon, who developed it as a realistic alternative to the notion of the «utility maximizer» presupposed by classical economics: For example, if a supermarket chain attempted to calculate the very best alternative before deciding where to place a new store, the research costs would bankrupt it, while more intrepid competitors would move in.

But the Lovins have shown electric utility companies that they can make a better profit if their customers use less electricity.

But the later Niebuhr probably had a better reading of Marx, and his mature sense of Marxism's limited utility and its grave dangers may be easier to see now than either I or my friends saw then.

It's possible that the Cardinals think they have One Weird Trick To Fix Your Batting Approach, or it's possible they pegged him as a utility infielder at best, and they're freaking out right now.