Retreating

S&P: Deregulation’s Goals Remain ‘Frustratingly Elusive’

The goals of deregulation within the U.S. power markets “remain frustratingly elusive,” with more states retreating from the process and regulators pursuing investigations into trading and accounting practices, said Standard & Poor’s in a report released this month. Noting that restructuring was supposed to induce more efficiencies and reduced prices, S&P said widening credit spreads and equity prices have instead sent investors “fleeing” from the sector — and the trend may continue for some time.

July 8, 2002

Small Gains Dominate, but Gulf Coast Retreating Late

Thursday was an excellent day to pursue a sell-early, buy-latestrategy in the Gulf Coast, according to a marketer. He saw TranscoStation 65, Henry Hub and TGT SL uniformly start around $2 even,then get up to $2.03 before falling back to the mid $1.90s in lateactivity. He thought the early cash strength was based on thescreen rising a few cents, but a lack of fundamental demand failedto support the upticks

June 12, 1998
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