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Fly News Breaks for September 6, 2018
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Sep 6, 2018 | 07:46 EDT
As reported earlier, BMO Capital analyst Dan McSpirit downgraded Southwestern Energy to Market Perform from Outperform and kept his price target at $7 citing the recent sale of its Fayetteville Shale operation. The analyst notes that the sale leaves the company as a "pure play Appalachian Basin producer"with a more capital-intensive business in the immediate term requiring a larger "cash flow outspend". McSpirit also points to the "still-challenging operating environment for gas producers" and BMO's "less than bullish view" on the commodity.