Thinkstock Update: When Richard Kinder did not get the CEO job at Enron, he put together a deal to acquire Enron’s pipeline assets. The resulting company, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, was…
Paul Ausick Both Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. and Kinder Morgan Inc. reported second-quarter results after markets closed Wednesday. Payouts from each were higher than a year ago.
Paul Ausick Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital Management has been busy in the first-quarter portfolio changes. The value of stocks held as of March 31 was $1.042 billion. The group’s 13F filing three months…
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday, May 15, 2014. They include Cisco Systems, Kinder Morgan, Rackspace, Twitter and L-3 Communications.
In a new research report, RBC adds and deletes names from its Guided Portfolio: Dividend Growth offering. We screened them by sector, looking for the highest yield for income-oriented investors.
Barrons.comThe oil industry may feel picked on by Barron’s of late. Master limited partnerships (MLPs) were not exactly given the biggest welcome mat in a piece about Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI).…
ThinkstockThe Canadian National Energy Board on Thursday approved a plan by Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) to reverse the east-to-west flow of crude oil and permit the company’s Line 9B pipeline to transport…
MLPs have become more prevalent in investor portfolios over the past couple of years. The problem is that this segment of the oil and gas sector has seen its valuations become lofty…
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…
ThinkstockFollowing last Monday’s implosion at Boardwalk Pipeline Partners L.P. (NYSE: BWP), there have been questions raised about the entire pipeline MLP sector and, especially, investors want to know which one could be…
Paul Ausick Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE: KMP) announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire American Petroleum Tankers and State Class Tankers for nearly $1 billion.
ThinkstockThe saying is that if there is a trading strategy, then there is an ETF strategy for that as well. Now the markets are getting a new exchange-traded fund strategy aimed at…
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…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaWarren Buffett holds an estimated $56.5 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock — the most valuable stock holdings of any active chief executive officer. Oracle CEO Larry…
ThinkstockThe impact of a rising interest rate environment on the performance of energy master limited partnerships (MLPs) has become a growing topic of interest among investors, given the 137 basis point (bps)…
