When the summer selling was reaching a first climax in August, 24/7 Wall St. released “The Great Dividend Portfolio” for dividend investors who search for both high-yield and some degree of safety…
What on earth are investors supposed to do when T-Bonds offer almost zero income? Interest rates are now so low that the price-risk in long-term Treasury bonds is too great. Ben Bernanke…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has bounced after Jamie Dimon and Societe Generale have defended the system and after Brian Moynihan defended his bank. The DJIA is still down 210 points, but…
Master Limited Partnerships have been under pressure of late, in part because of oil. The major concern for this sector is not as much oil and energy prices, but Washington D.C. policymakers…
Today’s commodities news highlights an SEC filing for a new agricultural ETF, a proposed pipeline that would send crude oil to the US Gulf coast, and a $500 million shelf registration from…
Master limited partnerships are a unique investment class for the dividend-oriented and for the income-oriented investor alike. As they are MLP’s, they generally pass cash down to investors at higher rates than…
Acquisitions, joint ventures, and ratings news in the oil patch have made for a busy day or two, and have also pointed out a handful of reasons pointing to a reasonable reason…
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) has created a 50/50 midstream joint venture with Global Infrastructure Partners that includes a significant portion of Chesapeake’s midstream assets in exchange for $588 million in cash. The…
Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE:EPD) reported first quarter earnings of $237.3 million (earnings per unit of $0.41) on revenues of $3.42 billion. In the first quarter of 2008, the company reported earnings…
Master limited partnership Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) has announced that it will pull out of a partnership with an affiliate of Oiltanking Holdings America, Inc., a subsidiary of privately-held German firm…
Douglas A. McIntyre There could be some trouble ahead in at least some of the entities in the pipeline business and the practice of distributions from LP’s if you look at operating numbers and the…
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) has announced that it will sell 8,600,000 common units in a secondary offering. The units represent limited partner interests rather than traditional shares seen in most…
Douglas A. McIntyre Duncan Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE:DEP) announced yesterday that it had purchased limited partnership interests in several midstream assets belonging to Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD). These two companies have more in common…
Douglas A. McIntyre Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE:EPD), a pipeline master limited partnership, increased its credit facilities by $593 million yesterday. The company obtained a $375 million senior revolving credit facility and a $218 billion…
Douglas A. McIntyre The effects of Hurricane Ike on the Gulf Coast are still being sorted out, but, so far reported infrastructure damage is light. That may change as producers, refiners, and pipeline operators begin…
