Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service raised its investment-grade ratings on Questar Corp.’s (NYSE:STR) retail-gas distribution and pipeline businesses by two notches to A, with a stable outlook. The ratings agency expects that the recent spinoff of its exploration and production business should lower risk and capital requirements. The upgrade ends a review that was started in April as it considered the spinoff of QEP Resources Inc. (NYSE:QEP), which was completed last week. S&P raised Questar’s short-term ratings by one notch to A-1, which is the second highest grade. Questar is now comprised of subsidiaries Wexpro Co., Questar Pipeline and Questar Gas Co. The company’s shares are currently trading 0.56% higher at .07.
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Miller/Howard Investments portfolio analyst Roger Young talks about Master Limited Partnerships, MLPs. Part of a series: Dividends: An Old Idea for a New Reality. Visit Miller/Howard Investments online at www.mhinvest.com
In 2007 the Real Estate Bubble began to deflate with Subprime mortgages busting the loudest. The stock market collapse in half in 2008. This 60-Minutes special features experts that say 2010 is going to be worse. Millions more Americans are going to face foreclosure with their homes underwater, even prime mortgages. Home values are going to decrease another 30-50% in the most inflated markets. Get out now and go into safer assets. Be ready investors and 401k holders, your stocks are about get cut in half AGAIN when this new panic across the entire platform of the housing market in 2010/2011. Deflation, then more bailouts/stimulus, then serious inflation.
May 24 (Bloomberg) — Michael Mullaney, a portfolio manager at Fiduciary Trust Co., talks with Bloomberg’s Carol Masser, Matt Miller and Julie Hyman about the outlook for the US stock market. Jud Pyle, a market analyst at PEAK6 Investments LP also speaks. (Source: Bloomberg)
May 14 (Bloomberg) — David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poor’s, talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox about investors’ strategies for the S&P 500 Index. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
May 14 (Bloomberg) — David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poor’s, talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox about investors’ strategies for the S&P 500 Index. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
May 14 (Bloomberg) — David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poor’s, talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox about investors’ strategies for the S&P 500 Index. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
May 14 (Bloomberg) — David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poor’s, talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox about investors’ strategies for the S&P 500 Index. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
Market finally seems a bit toppy. We had unemployment news come out, and we also have a surprise meeting from the FOMC this week. We should see some volatility. We have to remain nimble and ready to react. DISCLAIMER: I am in no way making suggestions or predictions on the future outcomes of the stock market. Acting on a comment made in this video needs to be discussed with your financial advisor. These are merely opinions. My often updated blog is derivativejoe.blogspot.com My broker is Think or Swim. They are providing the charts I am showing through a practice account. Their website is http