During Tuesday’s Current trade, Shares of BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P. (NASDAQ:BBEP), lost -5.57% to $2.71.
Breitburn Energy Partners LP (BBEP) declared financial and operating results for the second quarter 2015 and offered second half 2015 guidance.
Key Highlights
- Closed the $1 billion planned investment led by EIG Global Energy Partners on April 8th, resulting in about $500 million of current accessible liquidity.
- Stated total production of 5.0 MMBoe, in-line with Breitburn’s 2015 guidance.
- Raised Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, to $162.9 million (counting costs of $1.1 million for restructuring), a 48% enhance from the second quarter of 2014 and a 10% enhance from the first quarter of 2015.
- Reduced lease operating expenses to $18.72 per Boe in the second quarter of 2015, 6% lower than the first quarter of 2015 and 14% lower than the fourth quarter of 2014.
- Stated distributable cash flow of $58.5 million, or $0.27 per common unit, and distribution coverage ratio of 2.16x based on current monthly distribution of $0.04166 per common unit, or $0.50 per common unit on an annualized basis.
Breitburn Energy Partners LP, an independent oil and gas partnership, acquires, exploits, and develops oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and natural gas properties in the United States. The company’s oil, NGL, and natural gas reserves are primarily located in seven producing areas comprising the Arkansas, Louisiana, and East Texas; Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky; Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico; the Mid-Continent covering Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Texas Panhandle; Rockies in Wyoming; Florida and Alabama; and California.
Shares of Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT), declined -1.87% to $76.24, during its current trading session.
CVS Health Corporation (CVS) and Target Corporation (TGT) declared that they have reached a definitive agreement for CVS Health to acquire Target’s pharmacy and clinic businesses for about $1.9 billion. Through this agreement, CVS Health will acquire Target’s more than 1,660 pharmacies across 47 states and operate them through a store-within-a-store format, branded as CVS/pharmacy. In addition, a CVS/pharmacy will be comprised of in all new Target stores that offer pharmacy services. Target’s nearly 80 clinic locations will be rebranded as MinuteClinic, and CVS Health will open up to 20 new clinics in Target stores within three years of the close of the transaction. The new clinics will be part of CVS/minuteclinic’s plan to operate 1,500 clinics by 2017. In addition, CVS Health and Target plan to develop five to 10 small, flexible format stores over a two-year period following the deal close, which will each be branded as TargetExpress and comprise a CVS/pharmacy.
Target Corporation operates as a general merchandise retailer in the United States and Canada. It offers household essentials, counting pharmacy, beauty, personal care, baby care, cleaning, and paper products; music, movies, books, computer software, sporting goods, and toys; electronics, such as video game hardware and software; and apparel for women, men, boys, girls, toddlers, infants, and newborns, in addition to intimate apparel, jewelry, accessories, and shoes.
WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (NASDAQ:WETF), during its Tuesday’s current trading session decreased -5.33% to $17.75.
WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (WETF), an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) and exchange-traded product (“ETP”) sponsor and asset manager recently stated net income of $24.2 million for the second quarter of 2015 or $0.18 per share on a fully diluted basis. This compares to $10.6 million in the second quarter of 2014 and $12.1 million in the first quarter of 2015.
Recent Business Developments
Personnel
- On June 15, 2015, the Company named Kurt MacAlpine Executive Vice President and Head of Global Distribution
- On July 1, 2015, the Company declared plans for a Japan office and the appointment of Jesper Koll as Chief Executive Officer of WisdomTree Japan K.K.
- On July 23, 2015, the Company declared the expansion of its Japan Administration team with the appointment of Junichi Kamitsubo as Head of Sales and Atsushi Yamamoto as Chief Compliance Officer of WisdomTree Japan K.K.
WisdomTree Investments, Inc., through its auxiliaries, operates as an exchange-traded funds (ETFs) sponsor and asset manager. It offers ETFs in equities, currency, fixed income, and alternatives asset classes.
Finally, Statoil ASA(ADR) (NYSE:STO), decreased -4.49%, to $14.79.
Statoil ASA (STO) recommends that the company’s corporate assembly elects Wenche Agerup as a new member of Statoil’s board of directors.
The nomination committee in Statoil recommends that Wenche Agerup is elected as new member of the board. Catherine Hughes withdrew from the Statoil board with effect from 19 April 2015. The nomination committee’s search for a new, female board member as a replacement for Hughes is now finalised, and the nomination committee proposes that a supplementary election to the board is held in the corporate assembly meeting 20 August 2015.
Wenche Agerup was the Executive Vice President for Corporate Staffs and the General Counsel of Norsk Hydro ASA from 2010 to 31 December 2014. She has held various executive roles in Hydro since 1997, counting within the company’s M&A-activities, the business area Alumina, Bauxite and Energy, as a plant manager at Hydro’s metal plant in Ardal and as a project director for a Joint Venture in Australia where Hydro cooperated with the Australian listed company UMC. Though her work in Hydro, Agerup has developed a noteworthy business and planned competence. Agerup is presently a board member in Oslo Boers Holding VPS ASA/Oslo Boers ASA (the Oslo Stock Exchange) and the seismic company TGS, and has competence and experience within corporate governance.
Statoil ASA, an energy company, engages in the exploration, production, transportation, refining, and marketing of petroleum and petroleum-derived products in Norway and internationally. The company operates through Development and Production Norway; Development and Production International; Marketing, Processing and Renewable Energy; and Other segments. It is involved in the development and production of oil and gas through owning exploration licenses in Norway, North America, South America and sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Asia, and the Oceania.
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