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Barclays Downgrades Electric Utility Bonds on Viable Solar Competition [1]

"Barclays this week downgrades the entire electric sector of the U.S. high-grade corporate bond market to underweight, saying it sees long-term challenges to electric utilities from solar energy, and that the electric sector of the bond market isn’t pricing in these challenges right now. It’s a noteworthy downgrade since electric utilities which make up nearly 7.5% of Barclays’ U.S. Corporate Index by market value."

Michael Aneiro reports for Barrons May 23, 2014. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Utilities: A Stable Sector Headed for a Correction" (CNBC) [3]

"Wall Street Firms Step Up Warnings About Distributed Energy’s Threat to Utilities" (GreenTechMedia) [4]

Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Public [8]
Source: Barron's [2], 05/28/2014
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/barclays-downgrades-electric-utility-bonds-viable-solar-competition [2] http://blogs.barrons.com/incomeinvesting/2014/05/23/barclays-downgrades-electric-utility-bonds-sees-viable-solar-competition/ [3] http://www.cnbc.com/id/101689344 [4] http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/wall-street-firms-keep-warning-of-distributed-energy-threat [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [8] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81