American Electric Power Co., Inc. Message Board

Dow down 60. Coal stocks mixed. Natural gas moving up again. Looks good fro the thermal coal business. NRP up again. Need some help with met coal (45% of NRP's rev and inc.). No help in sight. Steel stocks trading near yearly lows.

Up nearly 4% today. Goldman Sachs says that it is going to $4.50. That would fix the thermal coal business. Need some hep with met coal. Steel stocks at new multi year lows. Industrial output news coming from China Sunday night. China will set met coal demand and price.

Dow down 165. NRP and most other coal stocks up slightly. NRP recovered all of yesterday's loss earlier but is falling back now. Coal shares being helped by natural gas price which is back above $4. Hope NRP can hold the gains.

For two years NRP shares have fallen while revenue, income and distribution increased. Have recovered a bit but with just 20 days till ex date the shares have lost 60 cents over the past two days. That's a nickle more than the distribution that will be paid. Also, and just recently, analyst have issued many favorable comments. Hard to make sense of it. Would bet that we will lose more before ex date. Dow and natural gas had a good move up today. A few of the coal shares were also up.
NRP traded more than 100,000 shares in the last 20 minutes (almost half of the days trading).

"The Street Wire" puts a "bur" rating on NRP. Check at AOL's daily finance (NRP)

Dow up 75. Most coal stocks down and near multi year low. NRP also trading in the red.

See Motley Fools under headlines. Positive comments continue but coal is bad news whether you own or lease it.

On January 29th NRP traded at $22.82. We have lost two months of gains in just three hours. Going much lower.

Dow down 35 and coal shares mixed. New lows continue. Natural gas price lower. NRP is losing recent gains. Going much lower.

Analyst say that the big drop in coal stock prices yesterday was caused by the drop in the manufacturing index and the 10% drop in new factory orders. Some analysts are now saying that coal recovery won't come until 2015.

Panelist on CNBC's Fast money says that the crash in US Steel stock (dropped to a five year low today) means that the world wide recovery is in trouble. If steel is in trouble, met coal demand is in trouble. If met coal demand weakens, NRP is in trouble. Almost half of NRP's rev and income comes from met coal.

Dow and S&P 500 at another all time high. Coal and steel stocks demolished again today. Steel stocks AKS and X lowest in 5 years. Coal stocks lost another 5 to 8% (two consecutive days now). WLT and JRCC again at multi year lows. NRP did close up but lost more than half its earlier gain. Natural gas was also down again. Coal stocks are going lower including NRP.

Dow up 80. All coal stocks down again except NRP. Steel stocks and natural gas also down significantly. Most coal and steel stocks at multi year lows.

Most coal stocks down around 5%. WLt and JRCC at multi year lows. There is talk of bankruptcy for JRCC. Believe ALL coal stocks will continue down until first quarter results are announced. Not going to be pretty!

Most coal stocks down more than 5%. WLT down more than 8%. NRP down even though there were favorable comments from two analysts (see headlines). It's going to get worse.There is already conversation about the bankruptcy of JRCC (new low today and trading below $2.

Dow and ALL coal company shares down. Most coal company shares continue to trade near multi year lows.
Natural gas price back below $4. With first quarter earnings coming, coal company shares will continue to drop.