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  • Keystone Could Set The Bar High

    By Reuben Brewer - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: EEP, ENB, EPD, KMP, TRP

    TransCanada's (NYSE: TRP) proposed Keystone pipeline has been mired in government red tape for years. With a massive body of information and increasingly stringent regulations floated as requirements for the project's approval, all pipeline companies may be impacted by the project, even if it gets turned down.

    Keystone

    The Keystone pipeline is intended to bring oil from Canada's oil sands region down through the United States to more »

  • Kinder Morgan Energy Partners Vs. Enbridge Energy Partners : What's In The Cards For Their Future?

    By Marina Avilkina - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: EEP, KMP

    Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMP)  is the largest U.S. pipeline company and, in its latest quarter, saw net income increase three times to $783 million from $206 million on a year-to-year basis. The company is deriving incremental benefits from its pipeline system with its recent purchase of Tennessee Gas Pipeline and the partial acquisition of El Paso Natural Gas Co. For the future, the company has entered into a long-term more »

  • 3 Phillips 66 Partners, Good Investments in Their Own Right?

    By Robert Zimmerman - April 3, 2013 | Tickers: EEP, MMP, PSX, NGLS

    Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) recently announced deals with three companies to increase the supply of North American crude oil to Phillips’ refineries. This will boost Phillips profits since North American crude is roughly $15/bbl cheaper than Brent crude that Phillips buys for its East Coast refineries. While these deals are important to Phillips, they have their own respectable businesses, too. Let’s take a look at them.

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  • Profit From The Coming U.S. Oil Boom With These Stocks

    By Robert Ciura - March 14, 2013 | Tickers: BP, CVX, EEP

    The nation’s determination to reduce its dependence on foreign oil has resulted in a more pronounced focus on domestic energy development. Although prices at the pump are still painfully high, there are signs of progress on this front. Recently, the International Energy Agency (IEA) recently forecast the United States will become the world's largest oil producer by 2020.

    Furthermore, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) last month reported that more »

  • Top Dividend Stocks For The Ultimate Retirement Portfolio

    By Cagdas Ozcan - February 11, 2013 | Tickers: AHGP, ARLP, MO, FUN, CLF, DRI, EPB, EEP, ETP, GCI, INTC, LO, MRK, NRP, NTI, PBI, RAI, TCPC, TNH, WPZ

    Each one of us dream of sitting on our seats next to the fireplace talking to our grandchildren when we are retired, while our investments are filling our pockets. That is one sweet goal of every of us, and it is never unachievable. It's all about knowing where to invest for the latter part of your life.

    For me, one of the best ways of calculating fair value estimation more »

  • Two Pipelines for Dividends, One to Be Wary Of

    By Robert Zimmerman - January 31, 2013 | Tickers: EEP, ETP, EPD

    A growing problem for the growing North American oil business involves transportation.  Simply stated, oil production exceeds pipeline capacity.  While a problem for producers, this situation opens a big door for midstream pipeline companies and their investors.  Recently, Enbridge Energy Partners (NYSE: EEP) and Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) responded to this pipeline bottleneck by expanding their joint venture Seaway Pipeline.  While these two companies collaborated on this pipeline, for more »

  • A Flexible Pipeline Company with Flexible Pipelines

    By Robert Zimmerman - January 25, 2013 | Tickers: EEP, EPD

    The boom in domestic oil production in the United States has created a problem: how to get all this oil to refineries?  A pipeline will do the job in the least expensive way, but currently so much oil is being produced, particularly in the Bakken oil shale, that pipeline capacity can’t move it all.  Enbridge Energy Partners (NYSE: EEP), in conjunction with Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) responded by more »

  • Investing Over The Cliff: To PetroBakken Or Not To PetroBakken

    By Nathan Kirykos - January 16, 2013 | Tickers: CPG, EEP, ENB, PBN

    The investors with exposure to the Canadian resource sector experienced some hard times during 2012. The TSX/S&P Venture index has fallen from 1,700 to 1,190, and this has brought several companies down to fire-sale prices. As I am always willing to go bargain hunting, my radar caught PetroBakken Energy (TSX: PBN), which has dropped from $17 in early 2012 down to $9.40 today. 

    The PetroBakken more »

  • Income Now, Income Later, part 1

    By Robert Zimmerman - January 4, 2013 | Tickers: CLMT, EEP, LINE

    My dad became a stockbroker 30 years ago when I was in college.  So it came as a jolt when he recently asked me for investment advice.  “I need some more income from my investments, “ he said.

    Like many his age, retirement income was supposed to be in the form of CDs and bank accounts; safe, dependable investments producing interest income.  Today, that approach is a financial dog that just more »

  • ExxonMobil Energy Forecast

    By Mark Morelli - December 12, 2012 | Tickers: ACI, BP, CVX, COP, EEP, XOM, GE

    In light of how discounted energy stocks are right now, I thought it would be fitting to highlight two of the largest producers in the field: BP and Conoco. One company--do we need to say who?--has been conflict-ridden by regulators and powerful businessmen yet opening a new chapter of its life where it can focus on high returns. The other company has been de-risking operations through partner agreements and more »

  • Top Investors Are Buying These Companies

    By Federico Zaldua - November 6, 2012 | Tickers: APC, CTCT, DE, EEP, FIO

    Despite a weak economic recovery in the US, a recession in Europe, and decelerating growth elsewhere (notably in emerging economies China, India, and Brazil), the S&P 500 has rallied 12% since early June. Global monetary policy enabled the market to overcome these headwinds and I think the global rally could resume its past uptrend from the current short term correction. In this report I highlight 5 stocks that have more »

  • Making Money from Moving Black Gold

    By Robert Zimmerman - October 29, 2012 | Tickers: BP, CHK, CXO, DVN, EEP, LINE, PAA

    It’s been said there are two kinds of people who make money on a gold rush:  those incredibly few and fortunate who actually find and dig up gold and those who sell the picks and shovels.  Lately, there’s been a gold rush of sorts in American oil and gas courtesy of hydraulic fracturing.  With America’s appetite for both oil and gas growing with no end in sight more »

  • And All that Gas

    By Robert Zimmerman - August 21, 2012 | Tickers: CMI, EEP, F, HMC, WPRT

    No question, there is money to be made in natural gas.  The US Energy Information Administration (USEIA) reports that the United States imports over four billion barrels of oil a year.  Of the top 15 countries that export oil to the US, most don't like us.  Our number one supplier is Canada, and after the controversial US-Canadian women's soccer game played during the recent Olympics, I'm not more »

  • Oil and Natural Gas: Driving the New Industrial Revolution

    By Mark Morelli - August 15, 2012 | Tickers: C, DPM, EEP, EPD, XOM, NUE

    Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) recently published a report, "North America, the New Middle East?" which suggests that there is a transformation taking place and that a "re-industrialization" of the United States is underway.

    What is driving the budding industrial revolution? It is none other than oil and natural gas. Increased domestic production of fossil fuels has the potential not only to reduce dependence on foreign energy sources and reduce the more »

  • Two Macro Trends That Can Help You Profit Big

    By Soroush Pour - June 29, 2012 | Tickers: AGU, CF, EEP, MAIN, POT

    It’s never too late to be on the lookout for investing ideas. Though the S&P 500 Index has behaved like a seesaw during the first half of the year, there are still industries and stocks that have great upside potential.  Ardent investors would be wise to continually monitor the latest macro events that may be affecting their portfolios.  Here's a great place to start. In this particular more »

  • Searching For Yield? MLPs May Fit The Bill

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 22, 2012 | Tickers: BPL, EEP, EPD, KMP

    After a decade-long loose monetary policy instituted by the US Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) and global central banks, as well as the recently revealed near zero interest rate policy (otherwise known as ZIRP) out to 2014, investors have started searching for yield. Investors have been scooping up corporate and high yield bonds, blue-chip equities with high dividend yields and longer-term US treasuries, which may even be losers on an inflation more »

  • Diversified Dividend Darlings

    By Arthur Pinkasovitch - January 13, 2012 | Tickers: MO, T, EEP, EXC, RGC

    A well diversified portfolio of dividend paying stocks accomplishes three main investor objectives. Firstly, through diversification, investors are able to mitigate their risks by reducing exposure to any one industry. Secondly, dividends provide a steady form of income that can either be used to supplement one’s wage or provide a cash flow stream to cover living expenses. Finally, dividend income can often provide an inflationary hedge, especially in today more »