Sentence examples for buying utilities from inspiring English sources

Stock investors are buying "utilities, health care and phone companies".

In stocks today, that might mean selling technology and buying utilities.

These include operating as a fair-trade town, encouraging co-operative schools, promoting co-operative businesses such as credit unions, and buying utilities and banking services from co-operative providers.

They spent $4 billion buying utilities in other parts of the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

People had been buying utilities as yields went up, which is opposite of the typical historic pattern.

During the dot-com bubble, Peter Huber recommended buying utilities, claiming that "pure" uninterrupted energy would shortly be a rare and precious thing.

"I figured if buying utility stocks was smart, then owning a utility must be smarter," he says.

On the M&A front, there were 160 cleantech deals worldwide, including Switzerland's ABB buying utility enterprise software maker Ventyx for more than $1 billion, and chip company Maxim buying smart-meter chip maker Teridian Semiconductor for $315 million.

But there are signs investors are still worried: They keep buying utility and telecom stocks, which are considered safe bets when the market is troubled, and the price of gold has surged.

People don't buy utilities.

American companies have also bought utilities in Britain, and a Malaysian company, YTL, agreed in late March to buy Wessex Water from Enron.