Hinds Howard explains why the recent downturn in the energy sector was a practically meaningless dip, and describes why MLPs are an ever-strong growth proposition.

December E-mini S&Ps (ESZ14 -0.22%) this morning are down -0.12% and European stocks are up +0.02% ahead of the results of today's ECB meeting and press conference from ECB President Draghi shortly after.

ONEOK Partners, L.P. (OKS - Analyst Report) announced that it will invest $480–$680 million through the third quarter of 2016 to build two projects: the Bear Creek natural gas processing facility and allied infrastructure, and the Bronco natural gas processing facility and related operations.

A basic investment concept is to that high quality stocks fare better in down markets than low quality stocks, and therefore in late stages of a Bull market with generally fully valued stocks, tilting equity allocations toward high quality is prudent.

Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. is a limited partnership recently formed by Sunoco, Inc. to acquire, own, and operate a geographically diverse and complementary group of refined product and crude oil pipelines and terminal facilities.

Please do not interpret today's list as a buy list. I do not advise buying into a dicey market.