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Bond Rally Helped Equity Valuations

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Bond Rally Helped Equity Valuations
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It can fairly be said that the bond market boosted stocks in the last couple of months of the year. Equities have lost their cheapness in recent years, ever since the Fed belatedly became concerned about inflation. TINA became unfashionable as interest rates returned to unfamiliar, reasonable levels. Compared with bonds, stocks are as expensive […]

Year-End Roundup

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Year-End Roundup
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Heading into year’s end, a number of interesting stories caught my attention. Energy Transfer (ET) rarely avoids conflict and is embroiled in a dispute with three pipeline developers in Louisiana who sought crossings over Gulf Run Pipeline, owned by ET. Momentum Midstream, one of the developers with a $1.6BN project, accused ET of unfair trade […]

Higher Despite Retail Selling

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Higher Despite Retail Selling
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The only negative about the pipeline sector today is the direction of fund flows. It’s regularly covered in this blog and a topic that continues to mystify us. Although we’re still awaiting data for the last two months of 2023, it’s almost certain to be the fifth year of the last six during which retail […]

Of Christmas Lights And Ladders

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Of Christmas Lights And Ladders
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Christmas is a time of traditions, which in turn create nostalgia. Like endorphins, this is a free and harmless narcotic.   Putting up the external Christmas lights, which we typically do right after Thanksgiving, usefully expends a few calories and kicks off that warm Yuletide feeling. Hunting through dusty boxes in the chilly attic for […]

The MLP Yuletide Spirit

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The MLP Yuletide Spirit
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This time of year usually prompts a blog post on MLP seasonals. It’s been a reliable topic (see 2015’s Why MLPs Make a Great Christmas Present or 2016’s Give Your Loved One an MLP This Holiday Season). The Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index (AMZI), which is tracked by the Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) has long displayed […]