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Daily Archives: August 14, 2009

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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Q2-2009 Holdings P to Z (BRK-A, PG, SNY, STI, TMK, USB, USG, UNH, UNP, UPS, WBC, WMT, WPO, WFC, WLP, WSC)

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 5:22 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has released its public stock holdings for Q2-2009 as of June 30, 2009.  Buffett did make some portfolio changes that have been seen here from ...
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Berkshire Hathaway & Buffett Q2-2009 Holdings G to O (BRK-A, GCI, GE, GSK, HD, IR, IRM, JNJ, KFT, LOW, MTB, MCO, NLC, NKE, NSC, NRG)

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 5:02 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has released its Q2-2009  public equity holdings as of June 30, 2009.  There are some portfolio changes that have been seen here from the end ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Q2-2009 Holdings A to F (BRK-A, AXP, BAC, BDX, BNI, KMX, KO, CMCSA, CDCO, COP, COST, ETN, CEG)

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 4:45 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has shown its Q2-2009  holdings as of June 30, 2009.  There are some portfolio changes that have been seen here from the end of Q1 ...
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Mixed Rig Counts Despite Higher Oil

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 1:23 pm

Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has released its weekly rig counts for the U.S., Canada, and international. While oil continues to stay high, the rig count picture is a mixed. ...
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How Deep Are Buffett’s SEC & Derivative Issues? (BRK-A) (BRK-B)

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 10:18 am

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.(NYE: BRK-A) (BRK-B) had its earnings and quarterly report last Friday, but the aftermath this week has shown more derivative criticism.  But more importantly, issues over SEC correspondence ...
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The Recession Will Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 10:12 am

"Do not go gentle into that good night." --Dylan Thomas The recession, which was supposed to be ending, is hanging on for dear life if some of the economic data ...
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BofA Sees Big Upside in Citigroup (C, BAC)

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 8:59 am

Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is trading higher this morning on an analyst upgrade. This would probably be a much more important call had financials not run so much.  Bank of ...
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The Taming of the Inflation Shrew

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 8:44 am

This morning's data from the Labor Department on the Consumer Price Index was released for July, and the inflation hawks out there are going to have to keep saying "It's ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMGN, AVY, COLM, DSGX, EJ, JASO, KG, SCSS, SPWRA, THC)

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 7:51 am

These are the ten top analyst upgrades,downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this Friday morning with roughly two hours until the market opens: Amgen (AMGN) Cut to Hold at ...
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A Strange New World: A Bidding War For An Airline

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 6:15 am

Airline analysts are worried that some US carriers will have to make huge cost cuts or face Chapter 11 filings later this year. The rising cost of jet fuel and ...
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Home Sellers Cut Asking Prices By $27.8 Billion

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 6:05 am

The housing market is recovering and then it isn't. New data from Trulia says that Americans cut the prices on their homes by an aggregate of $27.8 billion in the ...
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No Recovery For Video Games

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 5:47 am

Just when it looked like consumer spending might pick up, one of the hottest retail sectors, at least a year ago, video games, fell apart. In July, the industry had ...
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The Failures Of Alternative Energy

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 5:05 am

It was a bad sign when T Boone Pickens gave up, at least partially, on building a  mammoth wind farm in Texas. The process was not only going to be ...
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The Fates Conspire Against The Housing Market

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 4:52 am

Two pieces of information came into the market today, both about the trouble housing situation. The foreclosure filings and the interest rates on 30-year fixed rate mortgages affect the housing ...
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Media Digest 8/14/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 14, 2009 at 4:08 am

Reuters:   The Chinese are learning the problem of easy access to credit cards. Reuters:   The US recovery is still slow while France and Germany are rebounding. Reuters:   UBS (UBS) clients ...
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