Early Indicators: Buffett to the Rescue
Sep 24th, 2008 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Featured, Financial News– Billionaire investors Warren Buffett has sent US stock-index futures rallying after his Berkshire Hathaway announced it will buy $5 billion worth of perpetual shares in soon-to-be bank-holding company Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). The news sent shares in Goldman up almost 8%. Shares in Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), which is also converting into a bank, rose 9.8%.
– December-dated S&P 500 futures rallied 13.10 points, Dow futures were up 101 points, and Nasdaq-100 Index futures rose 18 points on the news. Yesterday, US stocks ended the worst two-day rout since 2002.