Flaws Seen in Markets for Utilities
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A growing chorus of large industrial power users, municipal utilities and consumer groups argue that the price of electricity has not fallen because the new markets for utilities do not work right.
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NEW YORK -- Throughout 2006, T. Rowe Price analyst Susan Troll watched in horror as one risky mortgage deal after another hit the market. She became alarmed by a widening trend: mortgage lenders issuing home loans of poor quality that were then packaged and sold by Wall Street investment banks to...
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Even the best companies can be bad investments.
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Cool products can make for bad investments.
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More vendors report a number of regulatory agencies in different countries are looking into claims of price fixing.
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A troubled company in the troubled housing sector.
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A coalition of 41 consumer and business groups on Monday asked the main U.S energy market regulator to probe whether power suppliers are selling electricity for unjustly high prices in some regions of the country.
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The failure to expense stock options is causing distortions and inefficiencies in U.S. labor and capital markets.
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Yeah, you can say that Microsoft has their flaws, and commission companies produce white papers trying to prove that point, but at what point will consumers (in this issue, mainly IT professionals) begin understanding that the cost of employing a Unix
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The price-to-book ratio is a useful metric for finding value -- but it's not without pitfalls.
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Weak housing market hurting demand for power tools.
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Consumers face uncertainty over what they will be paying for their gas and electricity this winter.
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Companies are giving up control of their electrical systems, and they are being paid to do it. The goal? To better manage the nationâs burdened power grid.
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Competition and merchandise are posing some big problems.
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Despite beating expectations, Schlumberger gets knocked around by the market.
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The stocks doomed to failure aren't always the ones you think.
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Even if they're cheap, the timing may not be right.