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FeedPosted Sep 14th 2010 1:30PM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
"Longer term, crude will best the old highs at $145/barrel set in 2008. That is certain. Just how much higher is uncertain, but I would not be surprised at $200 plus," assert resource expert Curtis Hesler.
The editor of The Profession Timing Service reviews a trio of favorites in the energy sector: Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), Legacy Reserves (LGCY), and Northern Oil & Gas (NOG).
He explains, "The financial press has been forecasting a crash in crude oil prices for some time. Some are basing this on a resumption of the recession, some on new discoveries and energy innovation, and some on a host of other reasons.
Continue reading Pro Timer's Energy Trio (KMP, LGCY, NOG)
Posted Apr 5th 2010 11:30AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Alcoa Inc (AA), Analyst Initiations
Analyst Upgrades
- UBS raised its Global LED demand estimates and upgraded Cree (CREE) to buy from neutral, citing lower margin risk and increased LED lighting growth. The firm raised its target to $92 from $60.
- Wells Fargo upgraded Juniper (JNPR) to outperform from market perform. The firm believes the company is beginning to generate multifaceted growth as a result of increased carrier traffic and impressive products.
- RBC Capital upgraded LHC Group (LHCG) to outperform from sector perform. RBC expects the company to increase 2010 guidance due to the passage of health care reform and raised its target for shares to $39 from $35.
- TransDigm (TDG) was upgraded to outperform from neutral at Credit Suisse.
- WebMD (WBMD) was upgraded to neutral from sell at Goldman.
- Houston Wire & Cable (HWCC) was upgraded to outperform from neutral at Baird.
Continue reading Analyst Calls: AA, AMP, BLUD, CREE, CSC, JNPR, LHGC, MWW, TDG ...
Posted Mar 16th 2010 12:00PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Rants and Raves, Exxon Mobil (XOM), Venezuela, Avon Products (AVP), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Procter and Gamble (PG), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V. (CX), Currency

It is mind boggling that Hugo Chavez, the authoritarian President of Venezuela is racing towards a mock socialist political system when the two largest socialist regimes in the world, China and Russia, have done the opposite. Even our long standing communist adversary (now trading partner) Vietnam entered the 21st Century on a capitalist influenced spring loaded economic boom.
BusinessWeek reports in its latest edition that the
Chavez government has been taking privately held supermarkets under government control:
Continue reading Hugo Chavez Racing Toward Economic Peril
Posted Dec 30th 2009 4:30PM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Newsletters, Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), Best Stocks for 2010
This post is part of a special report, Top Picks for 2010, the 27th annual survey in which TheStockAdvisors.com asks the nation's leading advisors for their single favorite stock for the new year. See all 80 stocks listed here.
For her top pick for 2010, income specialist Amy Calistri looks to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP).
The editor of The Daily Paycheck explains, "I always look for the gift that keeps on giving; that's how I view this master limited partnership, which produces a steady stream of income each and every quarter."
Continue reading Top Picks for 2010: Kinder Morgan (KMP)
Posted Dec 1st 2009 4:20PM by Jon Ogg (RSS feed)
Filed under: General Electric (GE), Amer Intl Group (AIG), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), Genzyme (GENZ)

Many said that today was based on solid economic data, but the markets were already pointed handily north. Today was about traders putting the risk trade back on by buying stocks and buying commodities. Dubai's explosive consequences seem to be mitigated, but that will be determined in time.
Here were the unofficial closing bell levels today:
Dow 10,471.58 +126.74 (1.23%)
S&P 500 1,108.86 +13.23 (1.21%)
Nasdaq 2,175.81 +31.21 (1.46%)
Top Day Trader Alerts Top 10 Analyst CallsTop Stock RumorsContinue reading Closing Bell: The risk-trade back on (AIG, GENZ, NLST, GE, CMCSA, KMP)
Posted Aug 4th 2009 11:40AM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: International Markets, Newsletters, Canada, Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy
"Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE: KMP) is a paragon of consistency; the stock continues to rise and the company continues to deliver on its expectations," says Jack Adamo.
In his Insiders Plus newsletter, he explains, "The master limited partnership has made great strides in cost controls to compensate for the weak economic environment. When things turn around, it could really take off."
"KMP is one of the largest and most respected pipeline and energy storage LPs in North America. It operates or owns interests in more than 26,000 miles of pipelines and 170 terminals.
Continue reading Kinder Morgan Energy (KMP): 'Paragon of consistency'
Posted Jul 17th 2009 10:50AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Nokia Corp. (NOK), Novartis AG ADS (NVS), Analyst Initiations, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP)
Analyst upgrades:
- Canaccord upgraded Imperial Oil (NYSE: IMO) to Buy from Speculative Buy following an increase in crude oil forecast.
- BT Group (NYSE: BT) was upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform at Bernstein.
- Novartis (NYSE: NVS) was upgraded to Overweight from Neutral at JP Morgan.
- CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) was upgraded to Neutral from Sell at Goldman.
- AvalonBay (NYSE: AVB) was upgraded to Buy from Hold at Sandler O'Neill.
Continue reading Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: BT, NVS, NOK, TXI, MTB ...
Posted Jul 7th 2009 2:40PM by Sheldon Liber (RSS feed)
Filed under: Altria Group (MO), Verizon Communications (VZ), Duke Energy (DUK), Loews Corporation (L), , Annaly Capital Management (NLY), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP)

The following list of solid dividend payers are not likely to get anyone excited about future growth prospects like some small cap tech company with a hot IPO, but in these uncertain times being able to diversify into a reliable dividend paying stock might work while you ride out the economic storm.
Bank money market accounts, CD's and treasuries are not all that compelling right now. While it is wise to keep some cash handy in these places, you need not put all your resources there.
Earlier today my colleague Steven Halpern posted a story on
the safest dividend payer in the DJIA and
Verizon Communications (NYSE:
VZ)
paying 6.1% was his conclusion. I recently posted about this stock pointing out the benefits of the communications companies, see:
Chasing Value: AT&T and VZ, high yield plus safetyIt is to be expected that a utility would show up on the list, given the strong recurring revenue and cash-flow and
Duke Energy (NYSE:
DUK)
paying 6.39% is that company. I have written many positive posts about Duke and my view has not changed.
Continue reading Serious Money: Six stocks paying over 6% yields: VZ, DUK, MO, KMP, BWP, NLY
Posted Apr 16th 2009 1:00PM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Newsletters, Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy
"Throughout the credit crisis, we've focused on Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: KMP) -- and we've not been disappointed," says Keith Fitz-Gerald in The Money Map Report.
"With the economy in the toilet and prices in the hopper, the notion of going 'long' energy right now might seem like a move that will lower our portfolio returns over the long haul. Not true. In fact, now's precisely the time that you want to establish or add to an energy position.
"Energy is not only an ideal hedge against rough markets, but more importantly, as I have noted repeatedly in recent months, one of the most concentrated upside opportunities available today.
Continue reading Kinder Morgan (KMP): Pipeline profits
Posted Nov 25th 2008 9:50AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Market Matters, Chesapeake Energy (CHK), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says if the commodity were going to fall further, it would have done so by now. Has natural gas hit bottom? One thing that has endlessly plagued this market is the belief that there is no bottom to oil or natural gas.
I think that we are seeing some stickiness in oil in the $50s. I am looking for that to be challenged and held today and tomorrow when inventories are broadcast. But more important, I think there is a place where natural gas is having trouble going down now because it is too cold. We are in the season where natural gas should have fallen more before it got here, because without some sort of unseasonably warm snap, we will now believe that nat gas is permanently above $5 and change, where a whole host of prudent companies, like
Equitable (NYSE:
EQT) (
Cramer's Take) for yield and
Ultra (NYSE:
UPL) (
Cramer's Take) for growth, make a lot of money.
We have more than a couple of ways to play this. Equitable has a decent dividend, one of the rare natural gas E&P companies with one of those. Equitable's finding costs are less than half the current pricing. The conservatives can play it with the
Chesapeake (NYSE:
CHK) (
Cramer's Take) preferred; nice upside while you wait. Another way is
Anadarko Pete (NYSE:
APC) (
Cramer's Take), run by industry stalwart Jim Hackett, who came on "Mad Money" recently and said that his company's oil and gas mixture is equal to about $10 a barrel but the stock is only at $37, and I suspect that it could go back to its $35 price if the oil futures stay this gloomy.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Lots of ways to play sturdiness in natural gas
Posted Oct 16th 2008 9:10AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Exxon Mobil (XOM), McDonald's (MCD), Halliburton (HAL), S and P 500, DJIA

All my career, the sentiment indicators have worked. When you get anything near minus 10 on the oscillator, you have to be silly not to buy. When you get anything approximating 35% bulls on the Investors Intelligence survey, you have to buy.
We have almost double that negative on the oscillator and half as many bulls as that pathetic number.
Sentiment has become meaningless. It is incredible.
If we are going into a severe recession, some of the selling makes sense, but not all of it. As we pull back to 8500 on the Dow, we will be looking at stocks that are yielding 6% to 7% that are solid and can't be shaken. We will be finding stocks at prices that we will look back and think it was impossible to believe.
And then there will be another cohort where we will buy and then watch them go down again, because business is so soft.
I want to reiterate that the stock market for now is just plain broken. You can't have
Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:
OXY) down 15% like it is nothing. The company should be losing money with that kind of decline. Remember when I said on Monday that you can't have
ExxonMobil (NYSE:
XOM) ) go up 10 because it can go down 10 just as easily?
Well, here we go.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Sentiment can't measure this broken market
Posted Oct 3rd 2008 9:30AM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Time Warner (TWX), India, China, Brazil, Newsletters, Mutual Funds, Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Merck and Co (MRK), Canada, , Barclays plc ADS (BCS), EOG Resources (EOG), Presidential Elections, Commodities, Oil, Agriculture, Stocks to Buy, Technology, General Dynamics Corp (GD), Israel, Green Stocks, Northrop Grumman (NOC)
Posted Aug 12th 2008 11:56AM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Newsletters, Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy
"The operations of many energy partnerships have nothing to do with the price of crude and natural gas; they only need to have demand to move and process crude oil and natural gas rather than to pump it out of the ground," explains Neil George.
In his specialized advisory services, The Partnership, he looks at Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP) and Kinder Morgan Management (NYSE: KMR).
"Midstream partnerships--those that operate pipelines or storage and processing facilities segments as well as those that invest in these segments--are among the most stable distribution payers.
"And, more importantly right now, they're among the most stable investments in what's become a treacherous stock market.
These middlemen, in between the producers and the consumers, are perhaps the best hedge for your portfolio as they continue to generate hefty cash flows for investors.
"Whether the broad energy market is up or down, these partnerships continue to be all-around successes. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and Kinder Morgan Management, are Foundation holdings in our portfolio.
Continue reading 'Kinder' income: Partnerships for steady dividends
Posted May 20th 2008 1:01PM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Newsletters, Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy
"Despite sharp intermediate setbacks, the bull market in energy is far from over," says Martin Weiss, editor of the Safe Money Report. Here, he looks at Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMP).
"Earlier, there was some concern that a U.S. recession would dampen worldwide demand for oil, and that could still happen. But right now, the rapidly increasing consumption of crude oil by emerging markets is actually exceeding any declines in industrial nations.
"Kinder Morgan is an energy partnership that transports more than 2 million barrels of energy products every day - gasoline, jet fuel, natural gas liquids and more. It has two additional profit centers: Mammoth oil and gas storage facilities and a business supplying carbon dioxide, which is used to boost production from aging oilfields.
"All three of these businesses can be extremely lucrative in a rising oil market like this one. That's how KMP generated a record profit of $347 million in the first quarter - a big swing from a year-earlier loss of
$150 million.
"Partnerships like Kinder pay out quarterly dividends to 'unit holders' - the equivalent of shareholders in traditional public corporations. And KMP's latest payout is 96 cents per unit, up from 92 cents in the prior quarter and 83 cents a year earlier. The indicated yield is a hefty 6.5%.
"As much as we like KMP, we recognize that energy shares may be extended and could pull back in the near term. So here's what we suggest you do: Buy a half-position in KMP this month. Then hold back an equivalent amount of cash earmarked for a possible second bite at the apple later."
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