Some products are just a fact of life. Water, food and warmth are only a few. There are many ways to go about obtaining these realities with some being easier than others. What is not easy in some instances is getting that need from here to there in an efficient manner. Investing in that transport system can be very lucrative even if it may take some time to develop.

Atlas Pipeline Partners LP, a mid-stream natural gas pipeline gatherer and processing company, works to gather and process natural gas in several leading natural gas regions. It has recently raised over $15 million in warrants and appears to be taking solid advantage within its Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri focus areas.

Although the transported natural gas product is a relatively seasonal one at the moment, one must understand the logistics of moving it and how the transported product is rapidly becoming one of

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Wall Street’s Stock Oversights: How to Profit With This Unconventional Investment Strategy

by Marc Lichtenfeld, Advisory Panelist Wednesday, February 3, 2010: Issue #1189

When I was an analyst at the uber-contrarian Avalon Research Group, we only initiated coverage on a stock if our opinion went against the consensus, or it was barely (or not at all) followed by Wall Street.

For this column, I’m going to focus on the latter – and show you how this seemingly unconventional investment strategy can actually make you a lot of money.

How?

Well, consider this from Cem Demiroglu at Koc University in Turkey, and Michael Ryngaert at the University of Florida: In 2008, they conducted a study which showed that stocks without any analyst coverage experienced a 4.82% higher return than their peers after coverage initiation.

The lesson here is simple…

Invest Before Before Wall Street and the

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American Electric Power Company Inc. (AEP) released stable fourth quarter results before the opening bell yesterday. In the reported quarter, the company beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 46 cents by four cents with an EPS of 50 cents. The uptrend was witnessed in fiscal 2009 performance where EPS of $2.97; comfortably beat the Zacks Consensus EPS Estimate of $2.95. However, the numbers for the reported period fell short of the year-ago quarter and fiscal 2008 by 9 cents and 27 cents respectively. The variance in EPS with the year-ago periods came from a dilutive effect of additional shares outstanding, which reduced earnings for fiscal 2009 by $0.42 per share and $0.09 per share for the reported quarter.  Revenue rose marginally to $3.3 billion in the reported quarter from $3.2 billion in the year-ago period. Results were boosted by higher rates in Virginia, Indiana and Oklahoma and ...

What a recovery! If the economy keeps recovering like this we’ll soon all be busted…

House sales are falling…unemployment is rising…and people are getting poorer!

The Dow rallied a piddly 23 points yesterday. Oil is selling for less than $75 this morning. Stocks are in trouble. As we said yesterday, this could be the beginning of the end for this bear market. We’ve seen the first leg down. We’ve seen the rally. We’re ready for the next big plunge.

Yesterday, the latest numbers on existing house sales for December came out. They were disappointing – nearly 17% lower than the year before.

Unemployment is still rising, as near as we can determine. It is rising for two reasons. Because we are in a depression. And, because the feds are trying to ‘do something about it.’

In this regard, we refer to three different phenomena. They are inter-related…they all show the same thing: an economy going

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Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) has brought a commercial solar photovoltaic power project under development in San Antonio, Texas. The company purchased the project titled Blue Wing Solar Project from Juwi Solar Inc. based in Boulder, Colorado. The 14 MW project will consist of 214,500 ground-mounted First Solar Inc.’s (FSLR) thin film panels.   Duke Energy also got a 30-year power purchase agreement to sell all of the output from the solar farm and associated renewable energy credits to San Antonio-based CPS Energy, one of the largest municipality-owned utilities in the U.S. Duke Energy expects to finish construction on the project by the fourth quarter of 2010.   Blue Wing will be the first commercial solar power project Duke Energy will own and operate. As of now, Duke owns and operates 733 MW of commercial wind power generation. In total, the company has committed more than $1 billion ...

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZckZ-8naz0/S1o6-aSSlZI/AAAAAAAADCs/zIxfG8TFsb4/s1600-h/roger+on+deck.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZckZ-8naz0/S1o6-aSSlZI/AAAAAAAADCs/zIxfG8TFsb4/s320/roger+on+deck.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429717144630891922" border="0" //aThe week just ended was noteworthy for several reasons most of which seemed to focus on political events. A Republican won the apparently important senate seat, the healthcare bill seems to be struggling (even Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson is having second thoughts), Ben Bernanke's reappointment is a little more in doubt than people might have expected a month or two ago, Paul Volcker has inspired President Obama to try to make some changes to how certain banks do business and quite candidly the President seems to be on very shaky ground.br /br /I guess no one in the Democratic party saw Scott Brown beating Martha Coakley and now the Republicans have filibuster ability which based on Obama's reaction jeopardizes all sorts of things. I have a very ...

Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) got regulatory approval from the Public Service Commission of South Carolina for a general rate case increase of $74.1 million (or 5.2%), which will be effective from Feb. 1, 2010. The hike will increase Duke Energy’s South Carolina residential electricity average monthly bill to $90 – $93 from $80 – $87 for customers. This is the first rate case hike since 1991 in South Carolina for Duke Energy.  Duke Energy Carolinas owns nuclear, coal-fired, natural gas and hydroelectric generation. The diverse fuel mix provides approximately 19,000 MW of electricity capacity to approximately 2.4 million customers in a 22,000-square-mile service area in North Carolina and South Carolina.  Duke Energy is the third largest electric power holding company in the United States, based on kilowatt-hour sales. Its regulated utility operations serve customers located in five states – North Carolina, South Carolina, Indiana, Ohio and ...

Intuit, Inc. (INTU) recently completed the sale of Intuit Real Estate Solutions (IRES) to Vista Equity Partners for $128 million.

Based in Ohio, IRES was a part of Intuit’s global business division and a leading provider of software and services to companies in the real estate management and investment industry. This division generated revenues of approximately $74 million in fiscal 2009 and was expected to contribute approximately $80 million to top-line in fiscal 2010.

As a result of the sale, Intuit expects to record an increase of approximately 10-12 cents to earnings per share (EPS) in the second quarter of fiscal 2010, ending Jan 31, 2010.

Vista Equity Partners is a leading private equity firm, focused on investments in software and technology-enabled businesses.

California-based Intuit is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions. Its flagship products and services include QuickBooks, Quicken and TurboTax.   Intuit earlier acquired Mint.com for $170 million.

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American Electric Power Company Inc. (AEP) entered into an agreement to sell wind energy to Southwestern University in Georgetown. The City of Georgetown will purchase the energy through American Electric Power subsidiary, AEP Energy Partners and sell it to the university for at least 18 years.   Southwestern University, signed the agreement to purchase all of its electricity requirements from American Electric Power’s West Texas-based wind turbines. Earlier, it sourced electricity from coal and fossil fuel plants.   American Electric Power is focused on green energy in a big way. It recently received $334 million from the U.S. Energy Department to develop a commercial scale project that will capture carbon from its Mountaineer coal fired plant in West Virginia and then inject the gases underground. American Electric Power is already capturing and storing carbon dioxide at its Mountaineer power plant in Mason County.   American Electric is one ...

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – January 14, 2010 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Deutsche Telekom (DT), France Telecom (FTE), Telefonica (TEF), Vodafone (VOD) and Big Lots Inc. (BIG).

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Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog:

Orange/T-Mobile Seeks Approval

European telecom giants Deutsche Telekom (DT) and France Telecom (FTE) have reportedly filed their appeals to the European Commission for approval of the proposed merger of their UK units in a 50-50 joint venture.

The European Commission will review the merger proposal and

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