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Hello: Can I have your opinion on Eagle Energy Trust? Thanks.

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Eagle Energy Trust, $8.31, symbol EGL.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 31.3 million; Market cap: $259.7 million; www.eagleenergytrust.com), came out as a new issue in late 2010. In November 2010, it listed on the Toronto exchange and sold units at $10 each to raise $149.5 million. Eagle used $127.1 million of the proceeds to buy a 73% interest in the Salt Flat field, a light-oil property in south central Texas that is now under development. It also owns 100% of oil properties with average daily output of around 930 barrels in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas. In April 2013, Eagle bought the remaining 7.5% of these properties that it didn’t already own for $8.5 million. The trust plans to acquire more U.S. properties, because it believes they are cheaper there than in Canada. Eagle also believes that it has, along with its legal advisors, successfully created a “mutual fund trust.” This makes it exempt from Ottawa’s tax on income trusts,…