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- With $5B Goldman Play, Buffett Banks on Fed's Bailout
- With his $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs, super-investor Warren Buffett is betting the proposed $700 billion economic bailout package, now being hotly debated before Congress, will soon pass without any major changes or restrictions. Once the proposed bailout legislation is law, the U.S. government becomes the ultimate buyer of bad...
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- With Bailout In Sight, Big Private Investors Back Banks
- While the proposed $700 billion, taxpayer-backed rescue of the economy is grabbing the nation's undivided attention, private investors are pouring billions into the U.S. financial system and backing banking groups poised to survive the current crisis. Right now, an estimated $40 billion in outside money is being pumped into some of the country's biggest banking concerns....
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Sure, Buffett is Shrewd -- He Wants the Bailout, Too
- Throughout this ongoing economic crisis, the hardcore anti-bailout crowd crows that everything can be fixed if we just act more like multi-billionaire Warren Buffett. Apparently, Buffett sees gold where others envision only muck. So the "Oracle of Omaha" is digging deep--but not too deep, mind you--to acquire...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- It's Like Old Times for IPOs and Insurers Are Piling In
- Remember the go-go ‘90's, when fast money was made in virtually every initial public offering? Shares of a fresh face would double on the initial day of trading, investment banks like Morgan Stanley that were managing the offering would grab their seven percent and no one would mind except for the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Buffett and the Limits to 'Awaiting Better Times'
- Kevin S. Price submits: With the publication of Warren Buffett's opinion piece in the New York Times, we'd like to revisit the question of selling equities into the maw of this growling bear. As we've written recently (here and here, for example), the big problem with selling at these...
- External links 2008-10-17
- Expert Predictions: Finding Value in Knife's Edge Markets
- Prieur du Plessis submits: The list of well-known names identifying value on the U.S. stock market at current levels is growing by the day and includes the likes of Jeremy Grantham (GMO – “Careful buying is justified”), Warren Buffett (“Buy America. I am”), John Hussman (Hussman Funds – “Why...
- External links 2008-11-12
- My Weakness for Warren (Buffett) Is Waning
- The Common Sense Conservative is down on Warren Buffett. He's fed up with CNBC's sycophantic coverage of Saturday's Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting but more to the point, he thinks it's time for someone to challenge the "Oracle of Omaha" (erroneously referenced as the "Sage of Omaha" in Saturday's FT)....
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
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- Shareholders Come First with First Cash Financial Services
- Warren Buffett always said that a company’s managers should have the ability to be candid with shareholders. They should report financial performance honestly, point out what went right and what went wrong. First Cash Financial Services FCFS has always been a strong performer in the payday loan and...
- External links 2009-02-23
- Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell Realtors.(Coral Gables)(HomeServices of America Inc.)(Embassy Financial Services Inc.)
- CORAL GABLES -- In Warren Buffett's first foray into south Florida real estate, Minneapolis-based HomeServices of America, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, has purchased Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell Realtors EWM and its related entities--Embassy Financial Services, Columbia Title and First Reserve Insurance. With 750 sales associates in 11...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- What Buffett Does Shouldn't Matter to You
- Mike Stathis submits: Without a doubt, Warren Buffett is one of the leading investors in the world. There’s no disputing that. But let’s face it. His skills have been over-exaggerated by the media. Of more detriment, the media continues to deliver the message that what Buffett invests in matters to...
- External links 2009-04-17
- Berkshire Profit Up 14 Percent as Stocks Rebound
- By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc posted its best quarter in nearly two years, as recovering stock markets boosted the value of its equity investments and derivatives bets. Operating earnings for the second quarter nevertheless fell short of forecasts, reflecting lower underwriting gains, including...
- News items 2009-08-07
- There's No Recession for (Most) Insurance CEOs
- Life has changed for a lot of people this year. While the government gamely predicts that the recession is over, the other corner of its mouth is saying unemployment will top 10 percent. But here's some good news: insurance CEOs are still making money. A study by...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Need to know: Currency... COSCO... Rio Tinto
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Currency markets: The dollar rose yesterday and was heading for its first yearly gain against the euro since 2005 as the worst financial crisis in 80 years led investors to take refuge in the greenback. During morning trading in New York,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Leading Through Uncertainty
- The range of possible futures confronting business is great. Companies that nurture flexibility, awareness, and resiliency are more likely to survive the crisis, and even to prosper. The future of capitalism is here, and it's not what any of us expected. With breathtaking speed, in...
- Articles 2009-01-12
- Capmark bankruptcy filing highlights property woes
- Capmark Financial Group, the US commercial real estate finance company, filed for bankruptcy late on Sunday, highlighting the ongoing stress in this corner of the property market. After reporting a quarterly loss of $1.6bn in the three months to June 30, the company last month said it was negotiating with...
- News items 2009-10-25
- How to Grow During a Downturn
- The stock market is down, credit markets are as frozen as Arctic snow, and unemployment numbers are rising. But don't let the bad news deter you. Recessions are an excellent time to refocus on what your company does best, attract new customers, and build for the future....
- Articles 2009-06-05
- The Short Case for General Electric
- Rakesh Saxena submits: General Electric Co. GE may well project the image that the risk emanating from lower earnings has been substantively offset by heavy capital infusions, including a $3 billion package from Warren Buffett. However, GE today is one of the most shorted stocks in the marketplace; three-month put...
- External links 2008-10-10
- CEOs Can't Handle the Downturn
- UK business leaders have their heads in the sand as the economy goes into sharp decline, says the Hay Group's report, 'Fight or Flight?' It exposes what Hay describes as a "startling lack of forward planning" among British businesses. Just over half of the 120 senior business...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Capmark Near Bankruptcy Amid CRE Storm
- When a group of private equity firms bought Capmark Financial, then a part of GMAC, in March 2006, the commercial real estate lender possessed $276 billion in loans and an investment grade credit rating. Now the company is teetering on bankruptcy. The WSJ said today that Capmark may file for...
- Blog posts 2009-10-24
- Jeff Immelt's GE: A Study in Corporate Leadership
- David Magee submits: On Wall Street, the adage that savvy investors should do the opposite of more obvious appearances, taking advantage of reality’s lag time, has perhaps never been truer than now. That’s why many investors have long practiced the strategy of buy on analysts’ sell recommendations, sell on analyst’s...
- External links 2009-05-06
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