How To Invest
In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.
Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.
If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)
If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.
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Under the license terms, the pipeline operator must separate U.S.-produced oil from Canadian crude. The company expects exports to other markets to account for less than 2% of the volume its U.S. oil pipelines currently handle.
However, shipping oil to refineries in Europe and elsewhere would help producers collect higher prices for their crude. That would encourage them to raise their output, increasing demand for space on Enbridge’s pipelines.
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Under the license terms, the pipeline operator must separate U.S.-produced oil from Canadian crude. The company expects exports to other markets to account for less than 2% of the volume its U.S. oil pipelines currently handle.
However, shipping oil to refineries in Europe and elsewhere would help producers collect higher prices for their crude. That would encourage them to raise their output, increasing demand for space on Enbridge’s pipelines.
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But like Algonquin, Innergex makes sure it has firm long-term power-purchase contracts in place before it starts building new facilities.
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In contrast to Algonquin, Innergex is growing slowly, mostly by building its own hydroelectric and wind facilities, rather than through acquisitions. Right now, it is developing or building five projects.
But like Algonquin, Innergex makes sure it has firm long-term power-purchase contracts in place before it starts building new facilities.
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