The ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters cut their Eurozone 2014 GDP estimate to +0.8% from +1.0% in Aug and lowered their 2014 inflation forecast to +0.5% from +0.7% in Aug.

As dividend investors we are always on the lookout for reliable sources of future income. Of course, the future is never guaranteed (as I recently wrote about dividend stocks in the death care industry) but we can use the past as a guide for potential results.

Water and Gas Utilities have outperformed but Multi-Utilities gets the current nod technically While the Utility sector is on the low end of total returns over the previous 3-yrs and TTM, they generated respectable returns for YTD and first 6-months 2014.