Friday closes — moves

The Utilities index is the one green index line in the matrix: chips fell while energy and the power companies rose — a rotation, not a collapse, as the edition frames it. The yield row's move prints as words and is charted in the borrowing-line panel below.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — 60-Second Regime Matrix table, moves as printed.

The borrowing line — two closes against 5%

Below 5% is breathing room for every utility building anything, as the edition prints it. Monday's closes decide whether the yield crosses back over the line.

Compare note: in the Against the line view, bars that fall short of 5% — the line Monday's closes test are dimmed; every figure is unchanged.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — the borrowing-cost attention card and the Regime Matrix, closes as printed.

Oil — Friday settlements, per barrel

Brent settled at its highest since April, as the edition prints it — the one warning light in the issue, up on fears about shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — the oil attention card and the Regime Matrix, settlements as printed.

Two beats — reported against forecast

Both utilities beat the average analyst forecast by seven cents a share, as the edition prints the margins. Revenue prints beside the profit lines: Dominion $5.62 billion, up 24.1%; Exelon $7.32 billion, up 9.2%.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — Dispersion & Anomalies, reported and forecast earnings per share as printed.

Guidance lines — held and narrowed

Dominion kept its full-year guidance and said it expects the top half; Exelon narrowed its range, as the edition prints both lines.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — guidance lines as printed in Dispersion & Anomalies.

Winter gas cushion — storage against its average

Storage sits above the five-year average — the fuller cushion is why December gas settled calm while oil jumped, as the edition tells it.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — the winter-gas attention card and the EIA storage table, as printed.

Winter gas — the storage table

Every figure exactly as the edition prints it in the storage table; the expected build is the Reuters survey reported by Energy Jobline, as the edition attributes it.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — the gas storage (EIA) table in Dispersion & Anomalies, as printed.

Wages behaved — the labour-cost prints

The Employment Cost Index rose exactly as expected and down from the quarter before — workers are not driving prices; oil might, as the edition frames the evidence.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — the Macro Vector, labour-cost figures as printed.

Wires spending — the McKinsey path

A research firm's scenario, not a promise, as the edition itself cautions: annual spending on transmission and distribution wires is expected to more than double by 2050.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — the Macro Vector, McKinsey's Global Energy Perspective 2026 figures as printed.

The utility scoreboard — Friday's closes, yields and multiples

Every reading exactly as the edition prints it: Friday's closes and moves, the dividend yield of the last twelve months as a share of the close, and the forward price-to-earnings multiple on 2027 consensus earnings — the method note the edition prints under its own scoreboard table.

Source: Power & Grid edition, Oct 31 — the utility scoreboard table and the Regime Matrix, Financial Modeling Prep figures as printed.