THE UTILITIES SELECT SECTOR SPDR FUND ETF News

A myriad of hurdles has continued to kept investors jittery and resulted in a flight to defensive sectors like utilities, real estate, healthcare and consumer staples.

The stock market showed little reaction to one economic report on Friday that technical analyst Tom Aspray thinks may help determine which sectors will lead for the rest of the year.

A dashboard with industry metrics in utilities.

The sector is now trading at a 52-week high, and some investors are counting on momentum to carry it still higher. But if risk appetite picks up, investors might prefer exposure to more cyclical secto

Lindsey Bell from Ally Invest joins Closing Bell to discuss a 'boring' sector: utilities. She and CNBC's Mike Santoli discuss utility stocks and their projections in the sector for the rest of the yea

During Refinitiv Lipper's fund-flows week ended August 11, 2021, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the third consecutive week, accum

CNBC's Frank Holland takes a look at how the utilities sector has benefited from summer heatwaves.

Let's take a look at some big utility earnings releases and see if these can leave an impact on ETFs exposed to the space.

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The utilities sector usually performs admirably when interest rates are low, but the Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLU) is up just 4.80% year-to-date, well behind the 17.67% returned by the

While concerns about the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 made investors jittery, a spate of upbeat corporate earnings and continued optimism bolstered risk-on trade.

Wall Street snapped a three-week winning streak amid uncertainty over the global growth and inflation fears.

Two new sample breakout stocks for Week 29 with better than 10% short-term upside potential. New ETF/ETN forecast section has been added. This past week the peak gains were in ATOS +26.6% and FUV +5.8

REITs have been one of the best performing assets of the past 20 years. Yet many REIT investors achieve consistently lackluster returns because they engage in five very common mistakes.

Water scarcity has become a global crisis. Plus, severe drought conditions in California and some other states in the United States made water utility stocks a winner last week.