The Times's investment column, Tempus, looks at the power station builder, International Power which last year merged with parts of the French group GDF Suez.
It's come a cropper building a huge hydro-electric dam in Brazil from which the returns may not be as stellar as first hoped. Tempus thinks this is "no big deal" and instead points to the prospective yield of 3.2%. The suggestion is: hold.
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