Liam Denning, Columnist

A Week of Warning for MLPs

Dividend and growth expectations likely need more cutting.

January 14, 2016 at 2:51 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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If you invest in MLPs, then you're probably muttering to yourself: "Is it really only Thursday?"

It's been a wild week for the traditionally sleepy sector. On Wednesday, the Alerian MLP Index plunged 6 percent to close at its lowest level since 2009. Brent crude dipping a toe below $30 a barrel didn't help, but there has also been plenty of action on the deal-making and financing front.