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Berkshire Hathaway ’
Sep 11th, 2009 |
By Shah Gilani |
Category: Politics & Economics
When it comes to the U.S. credit crisis, we’ve all heard the numbers. The stock market decline wiped out $7 trillion in shareholder wealth. It forced the federal government to commit to $11.6 trillion in bailout programs and stimulus spending. And it’s led to the longest U.S. downturn since the Great Depression.
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway, credit crisis, Shah Gilani, Stock Market Decline, Subprime Mortgages
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Jul 24th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Top Story
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK.A) is finally starting to offload its 20% stake in ratings agency Moody’s Corporation (NYSE.MCO).
Tags: AXP, BAC, Berkshire Hathaway, BNI, CCO, CEG, CMCSA, COP, COST, KMX, KO, Warren Buffett
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May 6th, 2009 |
By Addison Wiggin |
Category: Financial News
Stocks break-even for 2009… 2 charts detail the strange path to “profitability”… Chris Mayer on Buffett, Berkshire and the latest shareholder’s meeting…Dan Amoss with a sector begging to be shorted…Our in-house bankruptcy adviser on the fate of Chrysler…Plus, a rare Overtime Briefing… investing in the “swine flu”
Tags: Addison Wiggin, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett, Chrysler, Fiat, Reits, swine flu, US stocks
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Nov 17th, 2008 |
By Bill Bonner |
Category: Financial News
The Dow dropped another 338 points on Friday. How much more of this can investors take? Berkshire Hathaway fell below $100,000. And GM appeared to be heading for the junkyard.
Tags: Automakers, Bailout, Berkshire Hathaway, Bill Bonner, Capital Gains, Dividend Yields, DOW, Feds, Gm, govenment bailout, US stocks, Us Treasury Bond
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Aug 28th, 2008 |
By Jason Simpkins |
Category: Stock Market Investing
With the stock market in turmoil, it’s a good time to check in on what Warren Buffett is doing with his portfolio. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A, BRK.B) has struggled in the first half of the year. Money Morning’s Jason Simpkins says $3.5 billion of Berkshire’s recent $4-billion shopping spree is still unaccounted for…
Tags: Anheuser Busch, Anheuser Busch Cos, AXP, Berkshire Hathaway, Berkshire Hathaway Inc, BNI, Brk B, BRK.A, BRK.B, BUD, First Three Months, Gyrations, Horacio Marquez, INBVF, Ingersoll Rand, Ingersoll Rand Co, Ingersoll Rand Co Ltd, IR, Jason Simpkins, NRG, Nrg Energy, Nrg Energy Inc, NSC, Oracle Of Omaha, Railroad Stocks, Sanofi Aventis, Securities Exchange Commission, SNY, Spending Spree, Trane Inc., UNP, Unrealized Losses, US stocks, Warren Buffett, WFC
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Jun 13th, 2008 |
By Mike Caggeso |
Category: Politics & Economics
After two weeks of nail-biting speculation, InBev NV pulled the trigger on its takeover offer to Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. (BUD), putting up a $46.3 billion, or $65 per share, cash bid for the U.S. market leader.
Tags: , Anheuser Busch Companies, Berkshire Hathaway, BRK.A, BRK.B, BUD, Carlos Brito, economics, FBRWY, Grupo Modelo Mexico, HINKY, MER, Otc, SBMRY, Stella Artois, TAP, Warren Buffet
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May 30th, 2008 |
By Wayne Mulligan |
Category: Stock Market Investing
Today, we have another recession proof way to score big money, while even Buffett is fleeing this country. Wayne even includes a few smaller companies that should do handsomely over the next few months.
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway, discount retailers, Dltr, FDO, FRED, NDN, P/E ratios, recession, US stocks, Warren Buffett
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May 29th, 2008 |
By Theo Casey |
Category: International Investing
When Philip Harris, now Lord / Baron Harris of Peckham, set up his first Carpetright on the Manor road, Canning town in 1988 he can’t have imagined it would all come to this.
Tags: , Berkshire Hathaway, Bill Gates, Carpet Maker, Carpetright, CPR, Credit Crunch, Ftse 250, LLOY, Lloyds, PAY, Stock Markets, Warren Buffett
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May 27th, 2008 |
By Theo Casey |
Category: International Investing
Bowing to peer pressure from Eurocentric readers, today’s comment focuses squarely on opportunities in European indexes, or should that be ‘bourses.’
Tags: , Bear Run, Berkshire Hathaway, Cac 40, DAX, Deutsche Bank, euro, Euro Zone, European Indexes, European Stocks, German Stocks, InBev, International Investing, Ipo, Nokia, Recovery Stocks, Roche, SAP, Ubs, Warren Buffett
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May 27th, 2008 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Politics & Economics
The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect, U.S. investment guru Warren Buffett said in an interview published Saturday in the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway, BRK.A, BRK.B, BUD, Der Spiegel, economics, Gdp, Germany, GSK, KFT, KO, PG, politics, recession, Warren Buffett, WWY
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