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Reliant Energy

Energy Future Holdings looking to the challenges ahead

By JIM FUQUAY jfuquay@star-telegram.com Energy Future Holdings looking to the challenges ahead John Young winced when the question came up: What’s it like to have $44 billion in debt with the credit markets imploding? Since...

Possible sale catches Reliant customers and employees off guard

03:21 PM CDT on Saturday, October 11, 2008 Leigh Frillici / 11 News HOUSTON --Houston-based Reliant Energy could become a victim of the country's credit crisis. According to a recent letter to employees, all, or part, of the...

Waco charity organizations say they've seen increase in local utility disconnections due to...

Sunday, October 12, 2008 By Erin Quinn Tribune-Herald staff writer Waco nonprofit groups say they are seeing the impact of difficult economic times in the number of utility cutoffs affecting the area’s poor. Caritas of Waco...

Power cos suffer under weight of commodity slide

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Electricity producers have been among the hardest hit amid a slide in commodity prices prompted by concerns that a rapidly slowing economy will cut demand. Energy prices have slid along with other...

[$$] Still Some Energy Left in Market (at The Wall Street Journal Online)

Still Some Energy Left in Market Power companies that sell electricity in deregulated markets have been among the hardest hit by the stock-market selloff. So hard, in fact, that they are selling for a fraction of their inherent...

Texans' McNair still hopeful about team, Reliant

An 0-4 start wasn’t what Texans owner Bob McNair anticipated, but he is focusing on the finish rather than the start. McNair watched practice Thursday, and said afterward he supports what his coaching staff has done and has no...

McNair: 'Do it a little bit better': Owner says Texans need some hard work, focus on strong finishes

Oct. 8--Texans owner Bob McNair sees other franchises with losing records in turmoil. The 0-4 start wasn't what McNair anticipated, but he is focusing on the finish rather than the start. I don't know who it is. "With that...

Fed assuming more power as lender of last resort

RICHARD DREW ASSOCIATED PRESS Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appears Tuesday on a TV screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve tapped powers unused since the Great Depression to...

Houston Chronicle Loren Steffy column: Fed assuming more power as lender of last resort

Oct. 8--Last week, we wrestled with whether to bail out the banks. Given Reliant Energy's credit woes, the Fed could acquire the naming rights and rebrand Reliant Stadium as Fed Field or the Bernanke Bowl. Sure, it all sounds...

Credit markets still tight as stocks plunge

The jammed credit markets barely budged Monday as governments around the world scrambled to prop up their failing banks and investors waited for details on how, exactly, the Treasury will go about buying $700 billion of U.S....

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