These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on March 19, 2014. They include Compugen, Enterprise Products Partners, Juniper Networks, Suncor Energy and Yingli Green…
ThinkstockThe world of master limited partnerships, or MLPs, has been suffering under concerns of late. There is at least some worry that those high payouts that investors generally consider as dividend yields…
Jon C. Ogg One of the terrible things about taking interest rates to near zero and keeping them there is the savers in this country get murdered. After all these years of low rates, what…
ThinkstockThe big news in the master limited partnership (MLP) world last week was the announcement by Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP (NYSE: BWP) that it was cutting its quarterly distribution by 80%. The…
ThinkstockArgus research is truly considered independent, meaning the firm has no investment banking relationships with public companies that would cloud its judgment. This is a key reason we value its research. The firm…
ThinkstockWith the third-quarter earnings season nearing a close, the MLP analysts at Deutsche Bank have released a new research report tabulating the data. In the report they summarize some of the significant…
Jon OggWe are nearing the end of earnings season, and stocks have challenged new all-time highs. Now investors are starting to think about 2014, and the notion of which stocks to buy…
ThinkstockBank of America Merrill Lynch has refreshed a huge coverage list of master limited partnerships, or MLPs. The firm has shown that forty-eight MLPs in its coverage universe have declared their third-quarter…
ThinkstockUpstream master limited partnerships (MLPs) underperformed the market in the third quarter of this year. The good news for investors looking to get on board is that the road ahead looks encouraging.…
Investors have become all too familiar with the increasingly difficult task of scouring the investment universe for income-generating securities. Bond investors have been forced farther and farther out the yield curve or…
ThinkstockThe master limited partnerships (MLPs) earnings season is getting underway with some of the top names set to report earnings imminently. The MLP research team at Credit Suisse expects numerous positive catalysts…
ThinkstockThe world of master limited partnerships (MLPs) is one of high payouts, in the form of a return of capital and dividend income. There has been a growing concern of late that…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockThe master limited partnership (MLP) sector attracts investors because of the high distributions and the special tax treatment of those distributions. Investors think of these distributions as dividends, though they are actually…
ThinkstockEconomic numbers, the strength of the U.S dollar and geopolitical events all drive the price of oil. This summer all three have combined to not only move the price of West Texas…
We may have another monthly unemployment report out today, but investors and traders are still on the hunt for new research ideas in a strong bull market. The S&P 500 has hit…
