Sentences with phrase «utilities sector as»

For instance, his second term (2010 - 2014) saw the Hungarian government enact additional taxes on banks (mostly foreign owned) and some parts of the energy and utilities sector as well (again, affecting substantial foreign interests).

We still rate the Utilities sector as Unattractive, and only three Utilities stocks earn our Attractive - or - better rating, but the new tax law does give a tangible benefit to the sector that the market doesn't seem to be factoring in to its valuation.

I think the utility sector as a whole is still attractive right now.

Not exact matches

Down Under, the S&P / ASX 200 edged higher by 0.49 percent to 5,982.70 as the utilities and heavily weighted financials subindexes advanced, canceling out slight declines in the materials and energy sectors.

What claims to be the world's largest single market is shot through with regulation that protects favored players in sectors such as banking, utilities and transport.

If tensions between China and the U.S. explode into a trade war, Calvasina says the utilities sector could act as one of the few places to escape the fallout.

Bottom line: My recommendation for Canadian issues is to concentrate in the banks and other financials, utilities and telecoms at the expense of other sectors such as consumer staples and consumer discretionary stocks.

Tech stocks took a beating in what could be an ominous sign for the sector, while health care and utilities also fared poorly as investors demonstrated a preference for cyclicals over defensive.

Additionally, we believe the more defensive sectors of the equity market such as consumer staples could underperform, along with some telecommunication companies and utilities, where returns are heavily regulated.

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.

In the equity market, while investors used proxies such as utilities, transportation and energy sector exposure to express views, there are now ETFs that focus exclusively on this opportunity, specifically those that capture the infrastructure value chain.

For instance, last week U.S. utilities, usually viewed as a less risky sector, were down 4 %, dramatically underperforming the market.

Some of the more defensive sectors, such as utilities and consumer staples are still in bullish modes.

However, as rates begin to normalize, valuations on utility stocks, as well as other dividend - paying sectors, are likely to come down — a process already well underway.

The Utilities sector includes companies that engage in the production and delivery of electric power, natural gas, water, and other utility services, such as steam and cooled air.

The utilities seem to be one sector being left behind as the market is moving in a sideways pattern.

As an early adopter of renewable technologies, particularly solar, California has been willing to pay high prices and has in turn helped lower them for other markets, said Swami Venkataraman, a senior vice president at Moody's Investors Service who analyzes the utility sector.

Most likely it was the near doubling of interest rates, which tend to disproportionately impact those sectors, such as utilities, owned primarily for their dividend yield.

For example, last summer utility stocks lived up to their reputation as a low beta, low volatility sector.

At that point, they move their money out of retail and into more stable sectors, such as utilities, which hold their value better during the contractionary phase.

As such, traditionally defensive sectors, like utilities and telecommunications, typically become increasingly vulnerable in a rising rate environment due to their existing large debt positions.

From our perspective, stocks in less cyclical sectors, such as utilities and consumer staples, generally offered much less value and appeared to be trading at steep valuations.

Dividend investors usually prefer stable sectors such as banking, utilities, and consumer staples.

With the 10 - year treasury yield moving from 1.85 % to 2.37 % during our fiscal year, yield sensitive, defensive sectors, such as consumer staples and utilities, did indeed underperform the broader market.

** U.S. gas and electric utility CenterPoint Energy said it would buy rival Vectren Corp for about $ 6 billion, the latest in a string of mergers in the sector as power consumption in many parts of the country flattens.

Companies in the consumer staples sector may not pay a yield as high as those in the utilities sector but growth is usually slightly higher.

Unlike more defensive sectors (such as utilities), price gains for mature tech stocks have largely been led by earnings growth rather than by multiples expansion.

Stocks in the utilities sector offer one of the highest dividend yields as a group, around 3.6 % for the Select Sector SPDR Utilities Fuutilities sector offer one of the highest dividend yields as a group, around 3.6 % for the Select Sector SPDR Utilities FuUtilities Fund (XLU).

Since 2010, the level of the 10 - year Treasury yield has explained approximately 45 % of the variation in the relative valuation — defined as the valuation of the sector versus the broader market — for the utilities sector.

The Progressive Era developed the view that public utilities and other natural monopolies rightly belonged in the public sector, where governments would provide their basic services at a subsidized price or even freely as in the case of roads.

As a result, Southern has one of the lower valuations in the regulated utilities sector.

A model for each sector is built, as defined by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS); Energy (10), Materials (15), Industrials (20), Consumer Discretionary (25), Consumer Staples (30), Health Care (35), Financials (40), Information Technology (45), Telecommunication Services (50), and Utilities (55).

We didn't own any utilities and are unlikely to add any, as we believe other sectors offer much better value.

One of the often - heard concerns about rising rates is the negative effect it could have on «bond proxy» sectors such as utilities and REITs.

We will continue highlighting CIHT's role to everybody involved in transport infrastructure, including complementary sectors such as telecoms and utilities.»

«If you take the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU)[report], they said 2017 and onward is going to be a period of prosperity for Ghana and that is because of the foundation that we have laid, it's because of the work that we have done, we've eliminated a lot of the deficits that were created by huge subsidies on utility tariffs, we eliminated a lot of the subsidies that created huge deficits on the cost of petroleum products, today as I speak, Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is running, and producing petroleum products for Ghana, we have enough stock of LPG, our tanks and strategic reserves for petroleum products are all full, and, so, we have ships standing offshore Ghana with petroleum products, but there is no space to offload those products, and, so, we've done a good job in stabilising various sectors of the economy.

Article 316 bis second: Crimes of thefts from used materials and tools or those provided for use in the telecommunications, power generating and connecting, water, or sanitary drainage utilities that are established by the government, public authorities or organizations, or the public sector units, or those licensed or establishment as a public utility, shall be punished for with the penalty of imprisonment, if no aggravating condition of those prescribed in Articles 313 to 316 is fulfilled.

In Q4, agriculture, crude petroleum and natural gas, construction, transport, utilities, hotels and restaurants, professionals, administrative and support services, arts, entertainment and recreation were all growing at disparate rates of growth, some marginal, but growing all the same, unlike the poor state of sectors even as at the end of the third sectors.

«Scandals and perceived corruption in governance and the society generally, socio - economic hardships such as unstable currency, unstable power supplies — undermining both industrial and domestic ventures — executive bureaucratic delays in the public sector, especially at the ports, many industrial actions, protest demonstrations throughout the economy, sudden and high tariff increases for utilities, and ever - bloating national debt stock, have hall - marked the out - going year,» he observed.

The CPP will require a 32 percent cut in utility - sector carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, with some states seeing reduction requirements as high as 45 to 47 percent.

The researchers focused their global simulations on the U. S. and modeled the country's evolving economic activities in different geographic regions to determine the water requirements for five main sectors: thermoelectric cooling; public supply, such as for drinking water and other public utilities; industrial demand; mining; and irrigation.

Japan's electric utilities are putting the brakes on the country's fast - growing renewable energy sector as concerns mount that the addition of large amounts of solar power is creating oversupply problems for some regions while stressing the country's decentralized power grid.

Smith covers the Utilities sector, focusing on stocks such as Pinnacle West Capital Corp., Public Service Enterprise, and American Electric Power.

In other cases, it has involved turning elements of civil society and the private economy into arms of government policy — by requiring compliance with policy goals that are foreign to many civil - society institutions or consolidating key sectors of the economy and offering protection to large corporations willing to act as public utilities or to advance policymakers» priorities.

As Dimitri Volkmann, vice president for products and markets at Good Technology puts it, «We are seeing rapid adoption of tablets across a lot of highly regulated sectors — from public utilities to financial services, banking and healthcare.»

The findings: Traditional defensive sectors such as utilities, telecommunications, real estate and consumer staples provided minimal protection when nominal yields moved higher.

Some examples of defensive sectors include utility, pipeline, pharmaceutical stocks as well as stocks with high dividend payouts.

Of the 10 sectors that MSCI breaks the U.S. and World markets into - such as materials, energy and utilities - 8 of the categories are being led by global stocks versus their US counterparts (U.S. energy stocks and healthcare stocks are the two groups that are edging out their global benchmarks).

At 12.9, the price to estimated 2014 earnings ratio of the information technology sector is lower than that of classic value sectors, such as consumer staples (15.9) or utilities (14.7).

The utility sector, which many investors have been using as a bond substitute, yields only 3.4 %.