Will Toyota’s New Brake System Bring Customers Back
Toyota (TM) president Akio Toyoda announced that a brake override system will be added to all of its new cars. The enhancement to the company’s vehicles will cut engine power when a a driver…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Mortgage Delinquencies Soar
Most of the news about housing has been bad since the beginning of February. Heavy snow probably kept potential buyers out of the market. New data show that the number of foreclosures will probably…
Burger King And Starbucks: 1+1=1
Burger King (NYSE:BKS) will begin to sell Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) Seattle’s Best Coffee at its US restaurants. That would seem to be an admission that the coffee that the fast food has served up until now was…
Media Digest 2/17/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Obama pushed his nuclear initiative and backed a new plant. Reuters: Oil moved toward $78 on hope of an improved economy. Reuters: Toyota (NYSE:TM) will cut auto output. Reuters: Fidelity says the retirement…
Asia Markets And Europe Open (2/17/2010)
Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose 2.7% to 10,309. The Hang Seng was up 1.2% to 20,518. Shanghai was closed. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was up .6% to 5,275.…
The Bogus Resurrection of Nuclear Power
The latest stimulus program news out of Washington is astonishing for its lack of ambition. President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees which will support a plan to build the first nuclear power…
Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway 2010 Stock Holdings R to Z (BRK-B, BRK-A, PG, RSG, SNY, STI, TIF, TMK, TRV, USB, USG, UNH, UPS, WMT, WPO, WFC, WLP, WSC, UNP)
This is the list of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) public equity holdings as of December 31, 2009…. so these are his positions going into 2010. We have broken these into 3 groups for…
Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway 2010 Stock Holdings G to P (BRK-B, GCI, GE, GS, GSK, HOG, HD, IR, IRM, JNJ, KFT, LOW, MCO, NLC, NKE, PG, NSC, NRG)
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has just filed its year-end holdings for 2009, so these are Warren Buffett’s most recent holdings going into 2010. We have already seen some holdings get…
Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway 2010 Stock Holdings A to F (BRK-B, BRK-A, AXP, BAC, BDX, KMX, KO, CMCSA, CDCO, COP, COST, XOM, BNI)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its holdings as of the close of business for December 31, 2009, so that being said these are Warren Buffett’s most recent holdings going into 2010. …
Capitol One: Keep Track Of Charge-Offs
Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF) just announced that credit card defaults rose to 5.80% in January from 5.78% in December. The charge off rate was not good either rising from 10.14% in December to 10.41%…
The 100 Least Powerful People Under 100
“Ashes to ashes , dust to dust”…The Book of Common Prayer “Remember Caesar, thou art mortal” — William Shakespeare The media creates and distributes hundreds of lists of the most powerful, the richest, and the most…
Simon Says: “General Growth” (SPG, GGWPQ)
It seems that the realm of mergers and acquisitions is not dead when it comes to property deals. Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE: SPG) has made a formal offer to acquire General Growth Properties,…
Will The Einstein Biographer Uncover The Real Steve Jobs?
By John Hudson, The Atlantic Wire After thwarting the efforts of biographers in the past, Apple’s exalted CEO is finally giving in. Steve Jobs will collaborate on an authorized biography written by Walter Isaacson,…
RIM Warns Of Major Bandwidth Crisis
RIM (RIMM) maker of the iconic Blackberry smartphone, warned that bandwidth has started to become scarce in markets like the US. It would make sense. The 3G high-speed infrastructure which was built over a half decade…
Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALL, ADSK, CVX, INTC, KBH, LEN, MWA, PENN, PHM, PNRA)
These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from this Tuesday’s research calls from Wall Street: Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL) Raised to Neutral at JPMorgan. Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) Raised to…
Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/16/2010)
Updated throughout the day. KTO Capital Partners will $330 million in Asia hedge funds (Bloomberg). The CEO of former Citigroup (NYSE:C) energy trading unit, Philbro, will start a hedge fund–Astenbeck Capital Management. FT). The…
Android Gets More Legs
The Barcelona annual telecom meet-up has given Microsoft (MSFT) the chance to unveil its new Window Mobile 7 software. It has also given 24 wireless carriers that chance to unveil a product which will…
Barclays: The Miracle Recovery Of Big Banking Continues
Barclays (BCS) made $18 billion in the fourth quarter, which by any measure is stunning turnaround considering the problems the big bank had, and shared with most other multinational financial firms just a little…
The Foreclosure Problem Deepens
The value of homes will continue to drop. At least that is the conclusion from two studies reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. The reports are from John Burns Real Estate Consulting and S&P.…
Toyota Plans More Testing.. A Little Late
The Wall Street Journal reports that Toyota (TM) will probably become more aggressive as it tests its cars for quality in the future. That may be of little comfort to people who bought one…