Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP News

May 24 - Overview -- U.S. midstream energy company Kinder Morgan Inc. closed its purchase of El Paso Corp.

The pipeline MLP, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. has been a great, growing income producer for investors since going public 20 years ago.

May 22 - Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BB+' rating to Kinder Morgan, Inc.'s $11.8 billion secured credit facilities .

Master limited partnerships were caught last week in what Credit Suisse calls a "perfect storm" of falling commodity prices, tightening fractionation/processing margins and renewed fears of a European banking crisis.

's stock had its "neutral" rating restated by Zacks in a report issued on Wednesday.

Stocks rallied on Tuesday and the Dow hit its highest level since December 2007, after data showed the manufacturing sector expanded at a faster pace than expected in April, easing jitters about a slowdown in the economic recovery.

Master Limited Partnerships, or MLPs, have been gaining attention recently as investors struggle to find yield and in the field of MLPs, two companies stand apart from the crowd: Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. and Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. . They are the largest and most expansive companies in the Alerian MLP Index, and some would ... (more)