Top Trucking Companies To Buy Right Now

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Ecopetrol S.A. operates as an integrated oil company in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and the U.S. Gulf Coast. The company engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas. As of December 31, 2010, its proved reserves of crude oil and natural gas consisted of 1,714.0 million barrels of oil equivalent. The company also transports crude oil, motor fuels, fuel oil, and other refined products, as well as mixture of diesel and palm oil. It owns transportation network consisting of 3,003 kilometers of crude oil pipeline directly, as well as an additional 2,178 kilometers of crude oil pipeline with its business partners; and 3,017 kilometers of multi-purpose pipelines for transportation of refined products from refinery to wholesale distribution points. As of the above date, Ecopetrol S.A. owned 58 stations with a nominal storage capacity of 19 million barrels of crude oil and 6 million barrels of refined products. In addition, the company owns and o perates refineries that produce a range of refined products, including gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, aviation fuel, liquefied petroleum gas, sulfur, heavy fuel oils, motor fuels, and petrochemicals, including paraffin waxes, lube base oils, low-density polyethylene, aromatics, asphalts, alkylates, cyclohexane and aliphatic solvents, and refinery grade propylene, as well as provides industrial services to third parties. Further, it markets various refined and feed stock products, including regular and high octane gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, natural gas, and petrochemical products. The company was formerly known as Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos and changed its name to Ecopetrol S.A. in June 2003. Ecopetrol S.A. was founded in 1948 and is based in Bogota, Colombia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Chad Henage]

  The 800-pound gorilla couldn't care less
  In the music business, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) is still the 800-pound ! gorilla. The company's iTunes business generates four times as much revenue in three months as Pandora Media (NYSE: P  ) expects to generate the whole year.

• [By Jeremy Bowman]

  After hours, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG  ) was shaking up the online music industry with its purchase of Songza, an Internet radio service similar to Pandora (NYSE: P  ) . Shares of Pandora edged down 0.3% after hours on the news. The move gives Google, which did not disclose terms of the deal but was believed to spend just about $15 million, a stake in the burgeoning online radion industry, and follows Apple's$3 billion purchase of Beats Electronics just weeks ago. Songza recommends new songs to listeners, much in the way Pandora, and seems to fit with Google's knowledge-seeking business model.Amazon.com also recently entered the space with its Prime Music service, but Pandora has survived similar threats before, most notably from Apple's iTunes Radio. Despite the activity in the online radio space, the industry may approaching maturity with Pandora and Spotify the leading providers in the U.S. As the tech behemoths hunger for a foothold in the spac e, Pandora or Spotify could become a juicy acquisition for the big players likeApple, Google, and Amazon.

• [By Chris Hill]

  Shares of Pandora (NYSE: P  ) have fallen more than 12% this week on the news that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) is gearing up to launch a music streaming service. In this installment of Investor Beat, Jason and Matt discuss how big a threat Apple poses to Pandora, what the "first-mover advantage" is really worth, and whether Pandora has a puncher's chance against what is about to be the new 800-pound gorilla in the music streaming industry.

• [By Dave and Donald Moenning]

  Internet Software & Services has been the place to be in 2013. In addition to Shutterstock (SSTK), just take a look at these constituents of this red-hot sub-industry: Pandora Me! dia (P), ! Facebook (FB), j2 Global (JCOM), Yelp (YELP), CoStar Group (CSGP),LinkedIn (LNKD), etc. The list of superb stocks in the Internet Software & Services space goes on and on. Focusing on stocks in the top-performing sub-industries usually helps bullish trades, so today, let's take a closer look at Shutterstock Inc for a short-term long trade.

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