Idle Rambling To Get The Morning Started -- February 13, 2015

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February 14, 2015: speaking of dividends. Nice article over at Seeking Alpha.  

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Until I saw the note that WMB increased its dividend by a penny I had not looked at WMB in a long, long time. In fact, I have not looked at individual stocks in a long, long time, not since late December. Some exceptions. There have been some great buying opportunities this past month.

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But getting back to WMB. It's paying almost 5% (a dynamic link). In Europe you can get a negative return on your savings account, but here in the good 'ol USA you can get 5% at some of these companies.

How about more than 11% over at WIN? Another dynamic link. If that's too risky for you, 1.5% at AAPL; it was a lot more but that was before the price of AAPL surged five, six, eight, twelve percent or whatever it was. Likewise, UNP used to pay more on a percent basis -- but now back to less than 2% after reaching record highs yesterday. McDonald's pays almost 4% and is not far from it's 52-week high.

The Keystone XL bill will be vetoed, the Nebraska folks have stopped TransCanada from securing more easements, and the railroad companies like Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A and BRK-B) will keep on rolling along. Speaking of Warren Buffett, he will be watching See's Candy sales this Valentine's weekend. My wife bought me a box of See's Candy for Valentine's Day. I enjoy Coke every night watching DVDs. All big for Warren.

Nordic American Tankers is paying slightly over 9%, and continues to trade in a trading range.

Wal-Mart is suing the state of Texas to be able to sell hard liquor in its stores; it's already the state's largest beer and wine seller, but selling hard liquor would bring a lot of new customers into the store, I suppose. Sort of like Target now selling sex toys. LOL. By the way, I watched The Onion's video review of "Fifty Shades of Grey." The review was so boring I did not get past the first minute or so. The film looks incredibly boring but it's gonna do really, really well. The French rated it PG-13 -- that's how benign it is. France had considered giving it a "G" rating but probably thought folks would confuse that with the "G-String" rating.

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EOG Parshall Well Produces Almost 160K Bbls In First Four Months

I wonder if Warren has considered buying EOG?

• 27044, 931, EOG, Parshall 44-1004H, Parshall, t8/14; cum 159K 12/14:

Pool	Date	Days	BBLS Oil	Runs	BBLS Water	MCF Prod	MCF Sold	Vent/Flare
BAKKEN	12-2014	30	19891	20146	20530	9303	5100	3763
BAKKEN	11-2014	30	33159	32763	30457	15667	8275	6900
BAKKEN	10-2014	31	41801	41872	44216	20105	1523	18081
BAKKEN	9-2014	28	47721	47650	58361	18954	0	18492
BAKKEN	8-2014	16	16224	15562	26051	5786	0	5565