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Private Equity Sees Value in Unloved Pipelines

Last week the Financial Times wrote about the dwindling conviction of believers in the Shale Revolution (see Why US energy investors are experiencing a...

Portfolio Manager Discusses Price Target for Oil’s Descending Triangle

Even after crude oil’s reported reserves draw of over 10-million barrels (mb) reported when estimates were near 2 mb, the price of oil has still not been able to hold a substantial rally.

Pension Funds Keep Interest Rates Low

The Equity Risk Premium reveals that stocks are cheap relative to bonds (see Stocks Offer Bond Investors an Opening).  A corollary of this insight...

Hopes for a Trade Deal Slipping

Article I of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the “…Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises…” Congressional control over tariffs has...

Gold’s Advance Amidst Financial Market Uncertainty Ahead

The yellow metal gold has received much attention lately after being “neglected” for so many years. Gold’s advance has reached the highest closing price since 2013. Multiple factors can attribute to the rise.

Bond Buyers Should Buy Pipeline Stocks

Yields on McDonalds’ Euro-denominated bonds recently joined European sovereign debt in negative territory. It’s a headline writers dream (juicy burgers, not yields…customers and investors...

Canada Looks North to Export its Oil

Infrastructure projects can require a lot of planning, but the proposed link by the Alaska – Alberta Railway Development Corporation (A2A Rail) traces its...

Canada Looks North to Export its Oil

Infrastructure projects can require a lot of planning, but the proposed link by the Alaska – Alberta Railway Development Corporation (A2A Rail) traces its...

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