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Bracing For The Euro Without Greece… Other PIIGS Too (EWG, EWQ, FXE, EWI, IRE, IRL, NBG, GREK, EWP, STD, BBVA, VGK, FEZ)

So much for any great help from the ECB, France, Germany, and any other entity being able to help the Euro stay together.  Rumors have been out that nations have ...
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Are Junk Bonds Being Hit Too Hard? (JNK, HYG, PHK, MSY, HIO, HYV)

Bonds of the Treasury variety may be the safe haven against a falling stock market.  They hardly pay anything in yield, but they haven't yet faced a meltdown. The woes ...
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Facebook Funds/Owners Now Have To Fend For Themselves (FB, GSVC, SVVC, SOCL, ZNGA, MSFT, GS, TTII)

Finally we are going to get stop hearing about the IPO of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB).  This is the largest IPO of its kind ever and appears to be the ...
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Hedge Fund Stock Picks: Whale Hunting of the Kingmakers

24/7 Wall St. published the full list of positions already for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). While there were some surprises out there and 24/7 Wall St. tracked ...
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Big Changes to Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to Z

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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GSV Hammers Holders With Another Stock Offering

GSV Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GSVC) is taking it on the chin this morning because the company has sold another secondary offering of common shares so that it can go out ...
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Chesapeake’s Largest Shareholder Gets More Aggressive (CHK)

Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. is getting aggressive against Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK).  This is no ordinary shareholder either: it is the largest listed shareholder.  The new filing shows some ...
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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)

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)

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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Splunk Underwriters Did Huge Disservice (SPLK, MS, CS, JPM, BAC)

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) was touted as a hot IPO but became a sizzling hot IPO. The company priced 13.5 million shares at $17.00 per share, but this was a premium ...
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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)

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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New Ponzi Scheme Targeted Church Congregations

Bernie Madoff was the ultimate scum if you consider the size, time period and numbers of clients that his Ponzi scheme damaged.  It was billions of dollars lost.  There may ...
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Goldman Sachs Settles Over ‘Huddle’ Charges by SEC & FINRA (GS)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) just seems as though it cannot get out from under the negative spotlight.  The Securities and Exchange Commission charged that the brokerage and trading firm ...
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The Growth of the Short-Selling Hedge Fund ETF (HDGE, GT, OPEN, ENR, COL, GMCR, C, ERIC, ATI, BBY, JCI)

Apparently having a short selling strategy under a hedge fund exchange-traded fund model has been working.  This week we received notice that the assets under management for AdvisorShares ActiveBear ETF (NYSE: HDGE) hit a ...
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An SEC Concern Over Target Date Retirement Fund Disclosures

The Securities and Exchange Commission is highlighting something which may be a concern for the popular mutual fund themes called Target Date Retirement Funds.  For the billions and billions of ...
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