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Utilities in 2010
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwire - April 13, 2010) - www.rothmanresearch.com - As the brunt of a global recession slowly recede leaving blemishes and weakness in core economic fundamentals, the utilities sector, together with all other sectors in the United States, are cautiously thinking through the aftermath, studying the magnitude of the economic recovery. Pressing questions on demand outlook plague the sector as previous figures indicate a declining trend with a slump of 0.8% in 2008 followed by a decline of 4.2% in 2009. And to make outlook even bleaker, demand estimates for 2010 and 2011 made during the first quarter by most companies are in the red. However, one of the great positive in this sector is that earnings growth and dividend yield is quite an attractive prospect, with an average dividend yield of 4%. Recently, NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI) anno
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