Tag: energy

  • 1st Quarter in the Can

    1st Quarter in the Can

    3M remediation in Belgium, AT&T two-way trading, Kinder Morgan backed company files for bankruptcy and much much more!

  • Kinder Morgan backed Ruby Pipeline files for bankruptcy

    Kinder Morgan backed Ruby Pipeline files for bankruptcy

    Kinder Morgan (KMI) has a current dividend yield of 5.71% and is rated as “Safe” by SimplySafeDividends. I hold KMI in my High Yield Portfolio. In total KMI is 1.9% of my portfolio. The Houston-based natural-gas pipeline company filed for bankruptcy voluntarily in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del. Ruby, directly owned by Ruby…

  • Chevron employees strike at California refinery

    Chevron employees strike at California refinery

    Chevron (CVX) has a current dividend yield of 3.45% and is rated as “Safe” by SimplySafeDividends. I hold CVX in my Low Yield Portfolio. In total CVX is 0.7% of my portfolio. More than 500 Chevron Corp. employees went on strike at a refinery in California on Monday amid a contract stalemate. The strike comes after the…

  • Windows 10 mayhem

    Windows 10 mayhem

    Windows 10 upsets my apple cart, Russia continues to dominate the news, public pension stock dependency, companies continue to isolate Russia, and much much more!

  • Individual investors jumping into energy stocks

    Individual investors jumping into energy stocks

    The Energy Sector makes up 21% of my total portfolio. On Monday, retail investors purchased a net $340 million of U.S.-listed energy stocks and exchange-traded funds, the most in one day in VandaTrack data going back to 2014. Over the five trading days through Tuesday, they bought a net $122.05 million of Chevron Corp. shares…

  • Shell to withdraw from Russian oil and gas

    Shell to withdraw from Russian oil and gas

    Shell owns 68.5% of Shell Midstream Partners. Shell Midstream Partners (SHLX) has a current dividend yield of 8.41% and is rated as “Borderline Safe” by SimplySafeDividends. I hold SHLX in my High Yield Portfolio. In total SHLX is 1.7% of my portfolio. Shell had previously said it would pull out of a number of joint ventures in…