COPANO AND ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS???

This was the chatter yesterday fueled by a Bloomberg story that ETP had approached Markwest (MWE) and Crosstex (XTEX) and got turned away and is now talking to Copano (CPNO). The discussion continues on the Yahoo board. Considering ETP has a stock with currency value as do some others; frankly i'm surprised we havent seen some marriages in the space. Perhaps thats coming in 2010.

Okay its Friday and the dow opens down a little. MLPS are down by a point on the index at the open. No news and no upgrades or downgrades in the group.