The utilities industry offers attractive yields and has recently found favour with the investing public.

“Just Hold On Loosely but don't let go. If you cling too tight babe you're gonna loose control.” -- .38 SpecialGood morning and welcome back to the holiday pack. As starting players hit the sun and the sand skeletal crews will trade the supply and demand. It’s been a wicked front nine for investors in kind with slippage into the abyss highlighting the first quarter and the mother of all rallies dominating the second.With the DJIA and S&P straddling either side of the flat-line (snaps to the four-letter freaks for double-digit out-performance) the question on the lips of the ...

Enterprise Products Partners will buy Teppco Partners in a stock-swap transaction valued at $3.3 billion to become one of the largest participants in the U.S. natural-gas market, the companies announce.

UBS, J.C. Penney, Vodafone among stocks in focus Monday.

Stocks expected to move significantly in Monday's trading include Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft, J.C. Penney, State Street, Teppco, UBS, Vodafone and Watson Wyatt.