Alliance Resource +5% after hitting records in coal sales volumes, revenues

• Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP +4.9%) rallies to all-time highs after reporting Q2 results that included new quarterly records in coal sales volumes, revenues and net income.
• ARLP's Q2 net income climbed 32% Y/Y to $1.37/unit, revenues rose 8% to nearly $599M while coal volumes sold totaled more than 10M tons.
• Says it has essentially fully priced and committed its estimated 2014 coal sales volumes, securing during Q2 new coal sales commitments for the delivery of ~8.1M tons through 2017.