END OF QUARTER RALLY!
Looks like the Q3 markup is underway with the dow up over 130 this morning. The mlp index however is struggling a bit here up just a small fraction. The 250 level on the charts seems to be a wall that is becoming ever more formidable to penetrate as the days pass. I havent given up yet but i am beginning to wonder given the groups stellar performance this year whether Q4 might see folks book profits in the group and go elsewhere. Just putting the idea out there; not married to it quite yet.
Ferrellgas (FGP) put up earnings numbers this morning with a wider loss than forecast. The stock is up a nickle. Nustar (NS) is up just under 1 dollar and Atlas Resource (ATN) up 1 and change are the 2 biggest winners. Linn Energy (LINE) the biggest loser down 75 cents and its trading like an offering is coming or is about to get underway. Otherwise despite the flat move on the mlp index most mlps are actually showing fractional gains and very few are down.
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Joe,
Hopefully this scenario will be bullish for NG.
Max
U.S. Northeast May Have Coldest Winter in a Decade (Update2)
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By Todd Zeranski and Erik Schatzker
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Northeast may have the coldest winter in a decade because of a weak El Nino, a warming current in the Pacific Ocean, according to Matt Rogers, a forecaster at Commodity Weather Group.
“Weak El Ninos are notorious for cold and snowy weather on the Eastern seaboard,” Rogers said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Washington. “About 70 percent to 75 percent of the time a weak El Nino will deliver the goods in terms of above-normal heating demand and cold weather. It’s pretty good odds.”
Warming in the Pacific often means fewer Atlantic hurricanes and higher temperatures in the U.S. Northeast during January, February and March, according to the National Weather Service. El Nino occurs every two to five years, on average, and lasts about 12 months, according to the service.
Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators increased their net-long positions, or bets prices will rise, in New York heating oil futures in the week ended Sep. 22, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data Sept. 25.
“It could be one of the coldest winters, or the coldest, winter of the decade,” Rogers said.
U.S. inventories of distillate fuels, which include heating oil, are at their highest since January 1983, the U.S. Energy Department said Sept. 23. Stockpiles of 170.8 million barrels in the week ended Sept. 18 are 28 percent above the five-year average.
Heating oil for October delivery rose 1.38 cents, or 0.8 percent, to settle at $1.6909 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
To contact the reporter on this story: Todd Zeranski in New York at tzeranski@bloomberg.net; Erik Schatzker in New York at eschatzker@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: September 28, 2009 15:52 EDT
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