How Utility Stocks Became Risky
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With senators McCain and Obama in a virtual dead heat in the presidential race, the direction of economic regulation over the next four years is a big question mark. What are investors to do? Can they still find low-risk investments in utility stocks, whose fate is not tied to usual ebbs and flows of the business cycle?
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