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While no one buys utility stocks expecting to see strong long-term growth, stranger things have happened. As we enter into a new era of electric vehicles, the demand on power grids is going to ramp up. That could well mean more upside than usual for some of these companies.
Best Utility Stocks to Buy: AES (AES)
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Virginia-based AES is a power generation company that operates in the U.S. and 15 other countries. AES has a long history of firsts. This includes being the first Independent Power Producer in the U.S. (1988), creating the first documented carbon offset program in the U.S. (1989) and in 2021, the AES Alamitos Battery Energy Storage System became the world’s first standalone energy storage project for local capacity.
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currency in order to lift their export business. that s one way to do it. they re devaluing their currency against ours. so this is all telling the world that things aren t very good as far as the global economy is concerned. but then you have terror. and all of that uncertainty is never good for stocks. so we continue to see the sell-off, another 400-plus point sell-off ahead of the opening bell on wall street this morning. there is a lot of concern in the new year. i know you don t want to think about terror and safety and security, but also when people are worried, they also go into certain stocks, don t they? and there are certain security stocks or defense stocks high dividend stocks. utility stocks. there are a lot of safer sectors out there, but brian i got to tell you, nothing s been spared in this sell-off so far in 2016. everything has been down. okay. not good news for the u.s. economy. yeah. so far, more on this a little later on. in the mean time we turn to
that was weighing on the mark, as many see it signaling continued weakness in the world s second largest economy. weakness many fear could affect the u.s. and europe. fueling the comeback, strength in energy stocks, utility stocks and tech shares thanks to turnaround in apple. apple helped pace the broad decline as china is a critical growth market for the firm but the stock has rebounded. that in turn pulled the nasdaq higher. oil stocks up as well as crude oil held on to slight gains despite a bear irk report showing inventories of crude and gasoline and jet fuel dropped less than expected last week. financial stocks are under pressure, though, today as many speculate china devaluing its currency the u.s. frev will hold off from raising interest rates, fairing that higher rates could choke off the u.s. recovery. financials remain lower again, we see that strength in utilities, energy, and tech stocks. that, of course, has helped the nasdaq turn positive and helped