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Market Movers Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) saw its share price crash on February 8 after news reports suggested the company was looking to restructure more than $9 billion in debt, raising fears of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company said it has no plans to file for bankruptcy, but its share price fell by more than 50 percent in early trading on Monday, before regaining some ground. Chesapeake bankruptcy rumors. Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) had to go to lengths to dismiss rumors on Monday that it was nearing bankruptcy when news reports surfaced over the weekend that it was working with Kirkland & Ellis on an effort to restructure some of its debt. Chesapeake said it had no plans for bankruptcy and that Kirkland & Ellis had been the company’s counsel since 2010. But it is never a good thing when your company has to issue a press release saying that it is not going bankrupt. Chesapeake’s share price plunged by one third on Monday.
Reuters reported that a bankruptcy from the nation’s second largest natural gas producer would ripple across the midstream sector. Pipeline operators Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) and Williams Companies Inc. (NYSE: WMB) could be vulnerable to a Chesapeake bankruptcy because they have contracts with the gas producer for pipeline capacity. Even though some of their contracts include minimum volume provisions, which would require a company like Chesapeake to pay the pipeline operators for space regardless if they actually wanted to ship gas, the pipeline companies still might be forced to take a hit given Chesapeake’s dire circumstances. Whether through bankruptcy or renegotiation, minimum volume contracts might not be quite as safe as the pipeline companies had thought. Williams, for example, might lose $300 to $400 million because of Chesapeake’s woes. http://oilprice.com/newsletters/free/opintel09022016 AMLP A L P S Alerian M L P E T F. Total Return % 1-Day 1-Week 1-Month 3-Month YTD 1-Year AMLP (Price) -3.46 -13.38 -21.03 -33.40 -27.98 -45.63
My my my, heaven's sake's alive. Wasn't it as late as last summer when several financial scribes were advising that MLPs, given their "attributes," could be considered for inclusion in portfolios as bond substitutes, as protection from rising interest rates, dontcha know?
But there is one thing we can count on: despite the almost scandalous carnage--- no matter how long it runs, not matter how bad it gets--- not a single person in the MSM will ever hint, let alone openly suggest, that the MLP business model may be anything but fundamentally sound. Yup, rock-solid!
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Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) saw its share price crash on February 8 after news reports suggested the company was looking to restructure more than $9 billion in debt, raising fears of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company said it has no plans to file for bankruptcy, but its share price fell by more than 50 percent in early trading on Monday, before regaining some ground.
Chesapeake bankruptcy rumors. Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) had to go to lengths to dismiss rumors on Monday that it was nearing bankruptcy when news reports surfaced over the weekend that it was working with Kirkland & Ellis on an effort to restructure some of its debt. Chesapeake said it had no plans for bankruptcy and that Kirkland & Ellis had been the company’s counsel since 2010. But it is never a good thing when your company has to issue a press release saying that it is not going bankrupt. Chesapeake’s share price plunged by one third on Monday.
Reuters reported that a bankruptcy from the nation’s second largest natural gas producer would ripple across the midstream sector. Pipeline operators Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) and Williams Companies Inc. (NYSE: WMB) could be vulnerable to a Chesapeake bankruptcy because they have contracts with the gas producer for pipeline capacity. Even though some of their contracts include minimum volume provisions, which would require a company like Chesapeake to pay the pipeline operators for space regardless if they actually wanted to ship gas, the pipeline companies still might be forced to take a hit given Chesapeake’s dire circumstances. Whether through bankruptcy or renegotiation, minimum volume contracts might not be quite as safe as the pipeline companies had thought. Williams, for example, might lose $300 to $400 million because of Chesapeake’s woes.
http://oilprice.com/newsletters/free/opintel09022016
AMLP
A L P S Alerian M L P E T F.
Total Return % 1-Day 1-Week 1-Month 3-Month YTD 1-Year
AMLP (Price) -3.46 -13.38 -21.03 -33.40 -27.98 -45.63
http://performance.morningstar.com/funds/etf/total-returns.action?t=AMLP®ion=USA&culture=en_US
http://www.mlpdata.com/quote/AMLP
But there is one thing we can count on: despite the almost scandalous carnage--- no matter how long it runs, not matter how bad it gets--- not a single person in the MSM will ever hint, let alone openly suggest, that the MLP business model may be anything but fundamentally sound. Yup, rock-solid!