The artificial intelligence trade that has driven the S&P 500 Index to one record after another over the past few years is transforming traditionally sleepy utilities stocks into booming growth plays. <\/p>\n
Since the end of 2023, the utilities sector is up about 43%, making it the third best-performing group in the S&P 500, behind only communications services and information technology. Those three also lead this year, with utilities gaining 20%. Prior to this run, the S&P 500 Utilities index<\/a>, which has hit numerous all-time highs in the past few months alone, had never posted 20% gains in back-to-back years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg that starts in 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artificial intelligence trade that has driven the S&P 500 Index to one record after another over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[11839,345,343,344,38726,85,911,21748,46,60617,3310,5268,125,10559,60618],"class_list":{"0":"post-88955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-advanced-micro-devices","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-constellation-energy","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-information-technology","15":"tag-intel-corp","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-nrg-energy-inc","18":"tag-sp-500-index","19":"tag-stocks","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-utilities","22":"tag-vistra-corp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}