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Will Rising Interest Rates and Falling Prices Have an Effect on MLPs?

After underperforming the market last year, investors have received a catch-up trade with master limited partnerships (MLPs) delivering 31.11% in total returns over the past year, as measured by the ...
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Why Deutsche Bank Sees Key Pipelines and MLPs Rising Big in Q2 (PAA, EPD, KMP, WES, ACMP, KMR)

Once given up for dead as an overproduced and underutilized commodity, natural gas has risen from the ashes with a vengeance. A combination of a much colder winter than last ...
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Impacts of Low Prices on Natural Gas Liquids Processors (DCP, DPM, EPD, MWE, OGE, RGP, SEC, ETE, WES, WPZ)

Since the end of 2011 prices for natural gas liquids (NGLs) have fallen sharply from about 65% of the WTI crude price to below 50% of the WTI price in ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, AIG, DK, GRPN, HD, ING, K, MDVN, PIR, DGX, TOL, VE, PAY, WES, YRCW)

These are some of Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Sell at Citigroup; Cut estimates and target ...
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The Unusual Suspects for the Week Ahead (AAPL, BEC, FFIV, GM, GAP, GMCR, HHWW, MAT, PAA, WES, ORCL, PG, RIMM, RAD, SIRI, THC, YOKU)

We have a different cast of characters in this weekend's UNUSUAL SUSPECTS for the week ahead.  Many bits of news and rumors are carrying over from last week into the ...
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Anadarko Sells Mid-Stream Assets to Itself (APC, WES)

Western Gas Partners, LP (NYSE:WES) has completed the purchase of gas processing plants and gathering systems from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC). Western Gas was formed by Anadarko earlier this year ...
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Growing List of Damaged Post-IPO’s (SB, NM, RSOL, RAX, IPI, WES, PSE)

We would be reporting the economic numbers from the government's Department of Redundancy Department if we said it is an ugly bear market and if we told you that the ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (APOL, BZH, CB, CTSH, FITB, IRF, PBG, SNDK, SY, SYMC, WES)

These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Friday morning:Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse.Beazer Homes (NYSE: BZH) Raised To Neutral at ...
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Trouble Brewing In Oil & Gas MLP Land? (PAA, OGE, DVN, XCO, VQ, WES, APC, BSR)

We have tracked these Master Limited Partnerships (MLP's) and spin-offs or carve-out IPO's from larger oil and gas companies for quite some time.  What is amazing is that despite the ...
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Anadarko Scores With Western Gas IPO (APC, WES, EP, EPB)

In June 2006, Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE:APC) bought both Western Gas Resources and Kerr-McGee for a total of more than $23 billion. Last night, Anadarko announced that it had priced an ...
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Anadarko Spinning Off Western Gas Partners in MLP IPO (APC, WES)

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:APC) has filed for an IPO of its Western Gas Partners, LP, for some $452.8 million.  The company has a proposed sale of 18.75 million units with ...
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