Water Cooler Talk: CONSOL Energy Splitting?

Is CONSOL Energy/CNX Gas getting ready to split? As in, spin-off the company into two pieces, one for its traditional coal business (CONSOL's coal business has been around since the Civil War), and one for natural gas drilling? Apparently that's the speculation "going around"--at least among energy industry analysts who seem to have ADHD when it comes to predicting mergers, acquisitions, takeovers and now--it seems--spin-offs. An interesting (and balanced) article appears on yesterday's Seeking Alpha investor's website talking about the prospects of a CONSOL spin-off...

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