The IPO I have been waiting for has finally arrived. I first drew attention to it in mid-May when I recommended investors build cash and wait.
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July 24 - News
The early July explosion of train cars carrying crude oil in Canada quickly turned into a disaster. It also exposed the risks of the increasing use of trains to transport oil.
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July 24 - News
For years now, US and Canadian oil and natural gas production not only helped reduce oil imports to the US, but also rewarded their investors.
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July 22 - News
Three years ago an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico basically put a halt on oil and gas production causing many to wonder if the Gulf would ever come back.
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July 22 - News
Last week was a great week to be a dividend investor. Not only did two of my top stocks declare fresh dividends, but both companies also raised those payouts.
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July 16 - News
After a name change last summer, PVR Partners LP (NYSE:PVR), formerly Penn Virginia Resources Partners, set out on a path to switch its business model from coal-oriented loser...
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July 5 - News
A trailblazing North American energy transportation and distribution company, Enbridge Inc (NYSE:ENB) , has been trounced year to date, declining 4.99% compared to the 12.42% ...
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July 5 - News
The energy sector has not been immune to the economy’s downturn, but it still has areas of growth that show considerable promise.
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July 5 - News
One of the largest independent US pipeline carriers of refined petroleum products, Buckeye Partners, L.P.
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July 5 - News
Even with the recent uptick in long-term bond prices, yields are still puny, and income investors are hard-pressed to find quality companies that are even keeping up with the ...
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July 5 - News
By now, you have probably heard about TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)'s Keystone XL pipeline.
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July 3 - News
The midstream arm of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC), Western Gas Partners, LP (NYSE:WES) and midstream energy firm Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
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July 2 - News
Dividend payments, a way to distribute cash to the shareholders, indicates the strength of a company's free cash flow position.
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June 26 - News
The market sure doesn't take kindly to these Federal Reserve meetings, does it? Even though the Fed announced that things will remain more or less status quo until unemployment...
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June 24 - News
The U.S. started the shale drilling game, but there are several other countries out there that have shale resources as well.
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June 24 - News
The energy production boom in the U.S. has many midstream and downstream companies salivating at the potential of moving and using our oil and gas.
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June 18 - News
It’s a good strategy to invest in income growth companies, sit back, and reap the rewards.
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June 14 - News
Please be sure to read Part One before you read this part.
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June 14 - News
Is Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) going to take off soon? The best stock pickers are getting more optimistic.
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June 13 - News
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE:KMP) is the largest U.S.
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June 13 - News
Two weeks ago, when commenting on both the newest Powerball millionaire ($590 million, still unclaimed as of this writing) and David Karp’s sale of Tumblr to Yahoo! Inc.
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June 5 - News
Miller/Howard Investments is among the most famous financial investment advisers in the U.S. with $4.27 billion in assets under management.
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June 5 - News
The U.S. boom in shale gas and oil has come from certain parts of the country, and each of those parts is already starting to develop a reputation.
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June 4 - News
On May 22, the House of Representatives approved a bill declaring that a presidential permit was not needed to approve the Canada-to-Nebraska leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, ...
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May 30 - News
Many of the companies we invest in produce something that we can experience to some extent in our everyday lives.
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May 29 - News
Today, I’m examining the three MLPs (Master Limited Partnerships) that were listed in a recent article on InvestorPlace.com.
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May 24 - News
MLPs are the most stable way to get exposure to the U.S. energy boom in natural gas and oil.
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May 24 - News
In its recently published medium-term review of the oil market, the International Energy Agency forecast that the U.S.
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May 20 - News
This unflinching affinity for high-yielding investments has even pushed valuations among utilities -- a sector that typically trades at a discount to the broader market -- to ...
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May 20 - News
Whenever America debates energy policies, there's normally some heated rhetoric about one industry getting treated better than the other.
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May 20 - News
Last week, the difference in price between Brent, the global oil benchmark, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the main U.S.
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May 15 - News
TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)'s proposed Keystone pipeline has been mired in government red tape for years.
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May 14 - News
Kinder Morgan Inc (NYSE:KMI) and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE:KMP) have made headlines in the past because of large acquisitions.
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May 14 - News
Even as the market hits new highs, there are still plenty of good stocks out there to invest in these days.
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May 13 - News
The great debate over natural gas exports has taken a very interesting turn. President Obama, in a speech last weekend, hinted that the U.S.
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May 12 - News
For some three decades, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, have wielded tremendous influence over the global oil markets...
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May 12 - News
It's hard to believe, for me at least, that I've been a Motley Fool member for a decade now.
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May 10 - News
Approximately 40 percent of the total returns of the stock market going all the way back to 1930 have come from dividends.
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May 8 - News
Oil and gas partnership BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P. (NASDAQ:BBEP) reported its first-quarter earnings last week.
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May 7 - News
It's been three years since our nation experienced the tragedy of BP plc (ADR) (NYSE:BP)'s Macondo well disaster.
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May 6 - News
Courtesy of the shale revolution, U.S. oil production has soared in recent years, even reaching its highest level since 1998 last year.
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May 4 - News
Midstream operators aren't the most exciting companies in the world -- pipelines and processing plants don't typically give investors much reason to clamor.
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May 4 - News
If the numerous protests against Keystone XL -- the proposed TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)-operated pipeline that would link production from Alberta's oil sands to...
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April 28 - News
Traditionally, dividend payments, if a company chooses to make them, have been doled out on a quarterly basis, with some stingier companies only putting money in your pocket once...
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April 28 - News
Midstream gathering and processing company Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE:APL) recently announced a major acquisition related to the Eagle Ford Shale.
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April 23 - News
As the oil and gas industry anxiously awaits President Obama's final decision on TransCanada Corporation (USA) (NYSE:TRP)'s Keystone XL -- the controversial pipeline that would...
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April 20 - News
The surge of natural gas production in the U.S.
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April 16 - News
With tax day fast approaching, it's possible that you'll need to make a fairly large deposit in your IRA.
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April 12 - News
Is Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE:EPD) a cheap investment right now? Money managers are taking a bearish view.
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April 11 - News
Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) is being sued for $5 million after one of its pipelines burst which led to a small oil spill in an Arkansas town.
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April 8 - News