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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Transportation Companies Expect Huge Stimulus Windfall

Posted: November 17, 2009 at 5:59 am

New research indicates that transportation companies will benefit the most from the government's huge stimulus investment in infrastructure. According to a new ChangeWave survey of 313 people who work for companies ...
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Did NY Fed Cost Taxpayers Billions?

Posted: November 17, 2009 at 5:36 am

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four or five. An audit by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program claims that the ...
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The Pay Czar Blinks, A Little

Posted: November 17, 2009 at 5:32 am

The pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, is tough man. He has forced firms that have taken TARP money to sharply drop the base salaries of their senior managers. Executives will have ...
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Should McDonald’s And Wal-Mart Shelter The Mentally Ill And The Homeless?

Posted: November 17, 2009 at 5:10 am

It could be the economy or the fact that spending time in McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD), Target (NYSE:TGT), Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is more pleasant than it used to be. All ...
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Unemployed, But Still A Homeowner

Posted: November 17, 2009 at 4:57 am

There were two speeches by senior members of the US government about unemployment yesterday. The one that received the most attention was Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke’s talk at the ...
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Media Digest 11/17/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 17, 2009 at 3:55 am

Reuters:   The head of GMAC quit. Reuters:   Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen has cancer. Reuters:   The Fed will keep rates low. Reuters:   Lehman sued Barclays (NYSE:BCS) over a "wind fall" ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 11/17/2009

Posted: November 17, 2009 at 3:30 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .6% to 9,730. Sony (NYSE:SNE) dropped. The Hang Seng was down .1% to 22,914. The Shanghai Composite rose .2% to 3,283. At ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Holdings P-Z Q3-2009 (BRK-A, BRK-B, PG, RSG, SNY, STI, TMK, TRV, USB, USG, UNH, UNP, UPS, WMT, WPO, WFC, WLP, WSC, WBC)

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 5:11 pm

This is the list of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) public US equity holdings as of September 30, 2009.  As noted in the "A to F" and "G to O" ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Q3-2009 Holdings (BRK-A, BRK-B, GCI, GE, GSK, HD, IR, IRM, JNJ, KFT, LOW, MCO, NLC, NKE, NSC, NRG)

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 4:48 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has its Q3-2009 public equity holdings as of September 30, 2009.  In our group "A to F" we noted some interim changes in the lot.  ...
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Dry Bulk Shipping Stocks Rally

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 4:39 pm

Tickerspy's Dry Bulk Shipping Stock Index (*DBULK) rose 5.1% today, beating the S&P 500 by 1.3.%.  Dry shipping stocks were given a boost by upgrades today.  Deutsche Bank upgraded Genco ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Q3-2009 Holdings A to F (BRK-A, AXP, BAC, BDX, BNI, KMX, KO, CMCSA, CDCO, COP, COST, XOM, ETN)

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has shown its Q3-2009 holdings as of September 30, 2009.  We had already seen how his securities holdings were up on the books in ...
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52-Week High Club (FDX, LNY, MRK, GOOG)

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 4:02 pm

FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) over 3% to a yearly high of $84.92.  Barron's reported that the package delivery company may rise as high as $100 dollars according to a survey ...
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Unemployment: Then (1982) And Now

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke commented today that he was concerned that the recovery will not be strong enough to support job growth next year. While the current recession in the United ...
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Verisk Analysts, Lackluster Initiations (VRSK)

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Verisk Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSK) is seeing some very cautious or at least unexciting analyst initiations now that its quiet period has ended.  This post-IPO has at least held its ...
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Bernanke Predicts 2010

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 1:23 pm

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is spoke today in a speech to the Economic Club of New York which gives the bulls and the bears plenty of ammunition to support their ...
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