Author: Hinds

MLPs extended their winning streak to 5 weeks, but MLPs and midstream stocks were weaker towards the end of the week as oil prices and energy stock prices sank lower.

Midstream traded up for a 4th straight week since bottoming on December 3rd.  MLPs are up 12.7% from the bottom and the AMNA isn’t far behind with a 10% gain.

The year ended this week, which you may have heard.  From this point forward, we forever will be closer to 2050 than 1990.  So, it is time to review the final results of 2019.

Midstream traded up the first 3 days this week to cap a run of 7 positive days out of 8.  Then on a very low volume session Friday, midstream corporations and MLPs sold off a bit to finish the week slightly positive overall.  Midstream broadly was in-line with the broad stock market overall (S&P 500 +0.6%).

Midstream’s bounce off the bottom continued this week. In basically a repeat of last week, the MLP Index gained 4.6% the first three days of the week and was flattish from Wednesday’s close through the end of the week.

Midstream and MLPs ripped this week, continuing the rebound that began in the middle of last week. A benign broad market backdrop allowed midstream stocks and MLPs to rally on their own merits this week.

Midstream stocks took cues from the broad market this week, drifting lower early in the week before mounting a comeback later in the week, including a big Friday after the robust jobs report.

As of this week, I have now been publishing thoughts on MLPs at MLPguy.com for more than 10 years. The usual end of the year reflection in the media and among investors will be magnified arbitrarily this year by the end of the decade.

Monday was positive for midstream, capping a rare 3-day run of positive performance. But apathy reigned the rest of the week, as Midstream and MLPs traded down the rest of the holiday-shortened week.