Enbridge Inc.

ENBRIDGE INC. $46 (Toronto symbol ENB; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 806.5 million; Market cap: $37.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 2.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.enbridge.com) has agreed to build a 50-kilometre pipeline that will connect the Hangingstone oil sands project in Alberta to its existing pipeline system....

ENBRIDGE INC. $46.66 (Toronto symbol ENB; Shares outstanding: 806.5 million; Market cap: $37.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 2.7%; www.enbridge.com) gets 90% of its revenue from pipelines that pump oil and gas from western Canada to eastern Canada and the U.S.

The remaining 10% mainly comes from distributing gas to 2 million consumers in Ontario, Quebec and parts of New York State.

Enbridge is spending $27 billion on expansion projects between 2012 and 2016....

ENBRIDGE INC. $46 (Toronto symbol ENB; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 806.5 million; Market cap: $37.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 2.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.enbridge.com) operates pipelines that pump crude oil and natural gas from western Canada to customers in eastern Canada and the U.S. The company’s pipelines handle around 65% of all western Canadian crude oil exports.

Pipelines supply 90% of Enbridge’s revenue. The remaining 10% mainly comes from distributing gas to 2 million consumers in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and New York State.

Enbridge’s revenue fell 22.7%, from $16.1 billion in 2008 to $12.5 billion in 2009, as the recession cut gas sales and prices. In 2010, the company started up the $3.5-billion Alberta Clipper pipeline, which pumps oil from Alberta to refineries in Illinois. That helped push up Enbridge’s revenue by 103.0% in 2012, to $25.3 billion.

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TECK RESOURCES LTD., $28.73, Toronto symbol TCK.B, fell 6% this week, along with other mining stocks, partly due to concerns about the outlook for prices of coal, copper and other commodities. China is a major resource consumer, and growth in the country has slowed along with its exports to Europe and the U.S. China’s inflation rate is also rising, which could make it more difficult to spur growth through stimulus spending or lower interest rates. As well, investors are concerned that Teck may buy control of privately held Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC); Rio Tinto (New York symbol RIO) is IOC’s largest shareholder, with a 58.7% stake. This company mines and processes iron ore in Labrador City, Newfoundland. Trains then take the iron ore pellets to the port of Sept-Îles, Quebec, for shipment to steel mills around the world....

Enbridge still hopes to begin building its Northern Gateway pipeline in 2014. This $5.5-billion project would pump crude from Alberta’s oil sands to Kitimat, B.C. From there, tankers would ship the oil to customers in Asia. However, growing opposition from environmentalists and First Nations will probably prompt regulators to reject the project.

Even without Northern Gateway, Enbridge’s long-term outlook remains bright....

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $114.75 (Toronto symbol CP; Shares outstanding: 173.4 million; Market cap: $19.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.2%; www.cpr.ca) has announced that it will let U.S.-based Phillips 66 (New York symbol PSX) use its tracks to transport crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken shale region to a refinery in New Jersey....

ENBRIDGE INC. $43 (Toronto symbol ENB;Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector;Shares outstanding: 799.9 million; Market cap: $34.4billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 2.9%;TSI Network Rating: Above Average;www.enbridge.com) has bought 50% of the Massifdu Sud wind project in Quebec. This is the company’s second wind power investment in that province.

Enbridge paid $170.0 million for its stake in this facility. That’s equal to 63.2% of the $269.0million, or $0.34 a share, that it earned in the three months ended September 30, 2012.

Wind farms don’t make money on their own, but operators profit from subsidies. This project has a20-year deal to sell its power to Hydro-Quebec.

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ENBRIDGE INC. $43 (Toronto symbol ENB;Conservative Growth Portfolio, Utilities sector;Shares outstanding: 799.9 million; Market cap: $34.4billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.4; Dividend yield: 2.9%;TSI Network Rating: Above Average;www.enbridge.com) has bought 50% of the Massifdu Sud wind project in Quebec....

RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTTRUST $27.80 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Unitsoutstanding: 297.3 million; Market cap: $8.3 billion;TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.1%;www.riocan.com) is raising its monthly distributionby 2.2% with the January 2013 payment, to $0.1175a unit from $0.115.

The new annual rate of $1.41 yields 5.1%....