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After the Fall: Value and Upside in Conglomerate Stocks (GE, MMM, UTX, HON, TYC)

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 10:49 am

Searching for a value play in conglomerate stocks may resemble looking for a needle in a haystack. The companies are so large and diversified that anything short of a major ...
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Warren Buffett Tries To Save The Newspaper Business

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 9:26 am

It is no secret that the newspaper business has not been a good sector over the last decade.  Subscriptions declined about as fast as the number of smokers did in ...
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GE Going To $30?

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 7:20 am

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) closed up more than 3% at $19.00 on Wednesday against a 52-week trading range of $14.02 to $21.00.  The strong gain was on a sooner ...
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Wal-Mart Earnings Preview Against Sears, Target, Home Depot

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 3:36 pm

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is set to report earnings early on Thursday morning.  This earnings report is likely to be very different from any prior earnings report due to ...
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GE Finally Starts Getting GE Capital Dividends Again, Plus $4.5 Billion Special Dividend

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 9:25 am

General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is now going to be much further to being back on track in its GE Capital unit.  After having promised a return to dividend after ...
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Big Changes to Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to Z

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 5:05 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of ...
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Nelson Peltz Joins Warren Buffett With Ingersoll-Rand (IR, BRK-A, BRK-B)

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 10:13 am

Ingersoll-Rand Plc (NYSE: IR) is often overlooked as a key company despite a nearly $13 billion market value.  The news is out that Nelson Peltz has taken a 7.1% stake in the ...
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Most Likely Stock Purchases By Warren Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B, CVS, DVA, DTV, DG, GD, INTC, IBM, LMCA, V, WFC)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 12:04 pm

Warren Buffett hosted the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) over the weekend and this Monday morning he gave a long interview to CNBC.  In the interview Mr. Buffett noted how ...
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Buffett’s Unusual Position At Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting (BRK-A, BRK-B, GS, IBM, INTC, MSFT, DVA, DG, KO, WFC)

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 8:55 am

This weekend has perhaps the most widely followed annual meeting from any public company in America as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will have its shareholder meeting in ...
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Sell In May And Go Away? A 2012 Primer (BAC, JPM, GE, AA, CAT, MSFT, INTC, AAPL, XOM, CVX, DD)

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 7:08 am

It is that time of year again.  It is time to ponder the theory of pricing in a summer slowdown, whether it actually happens or not.  In short, is time ...
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Options Take: Pressure To Remain On Wal-Mart Woes (WMT, TGT, DG, BIG)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 2:56 pm

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is still deep in the soup.  Since the news broke over the weekend over bribes in Mexico involving its current and former top-brass, Wal-Mart shares ...
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GE Delivers On Earnings With Strength In GE Capital & Industrial (GE)

Posted: April 20, 2012 at 6:57 am

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is demonstrating in its earnings report just exactly why it has been able to keep raising its dividend throughout the last year.  The company reported ...
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Conglomerates Bracing For GE & Honeywell Earnings… Higher Expectations (GE, HON, MMM, UTX, TYC)

Posted: April 18, 2012 at 9:50 am

Conglomerates are soft so far on Wednesday but they have turned up ahead of the wave of earnings this week.  A screen at Finviz showed that the conglomerate sector is leading ...
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What Happens to Warren Buffett’s Top 10 Performing Stocks of 2012? (BRK-B, BRK-A, USG, IR, MCO, AXP, WFC, V, BK, VRSK, INTC, MA, AAPL, JNJ, BAC)

Posted: April 18, 2012 at 6:46 am

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will be in the news quite a bit now that the world's most famous investor, chairman Warren Buffett, has been diagnosed with prostate ...
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What To Expect As Warren Buffett Battles Prostate Cancer (BRK-A, BRK-B, AXP, KO, KFT, PG, WFC)

Posted: April 17, 2012 at 5:46 pm

Warren Buffett is supposed to be invincible.  Unfortunately the world is finding out that this is not the case.  A disclosure letter came from Mr. Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ...
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