Texas refineries slowly restart after last week's deep freeze

Refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast began rapidly restarting following last week’s winter storm that shut down the state’s fuel processing and petrochemical industries with the lowest freezing temperatures in a generation. Source: Industry Insights


3 Stocks to Buy with Dividends Yielding More than 4%

Income investors are frustrated by low dividend yields in today’s market, but there are still some high yields if you know where to look. With the S&P 500 average yield below 1.6%, many of the usual suspects and Dividend Aristocrats have been bid down by investors desperate f Source: Industry Insights


Texas freeze led to release of tons of air pollutants as refineries shut

The largest U.S. oil refiners released tons of air pollutants into the skies over Texas this past week, according to figures provided to the state, as refineries and petrochemical plants in the region scrambled to shut production during frigid weather. Source: Industry Insights


Paul Singer-backed blank-check firms file for up to $1.5 bln IPO

Two blank-check companies, backed by billionaire Paul Singer’s hedge fund Elliott International Ltd, have filed for initial public offerings of up to $1.5 billion, their regulatory filings showed on Friday. Source: Industry Insights


Validea's Top Five Energy Stocks Based On Joseph Piotroski – 2/14/2021

The following are the top rated Energy stocks according to Validea’s Book/Market Investor model based on the published strategy of Joseph Piotroski. This value-quant strategy screens for high book-to-market stocks, and then separates out financially sound firms by looking at a ho Source: Industry Insights


Notable Friday Option Activity: TRTN, MPC, DDOG

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Triton International Ltd (Symbol: TRTN), where a total of 4,059 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 405,900 underlying shares. That amounts to abou Source: Industry Insights


MPC Ex-Dividend Reminder – 2/16/21

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 2/16/21, Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Symbol: MPC) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.58, payable on 3/10/21. As a percentage of MPC’s recent stock price of $49.84, this dividend works out to Source: Industry Insights