Rick’s Now King of Public Strip Clubs (RICK, VCGH)
Rick’s Cabaret International Inc. (NASDAQ: RICK) is seeing its shares take a breather after earnings. The news is not just that revenues grew by almost 17% to $20 million, and that its net income…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Housing Starts: A Multi-Family Affair
The US government has just issued housing reports. Housing starts rose to a seasonally adjusted 591,000 equating to a 2.8% increase. That is the best report we have seen since last summer. This data…
Changing Solar Sentiment Into First Solar Earnings (FSLR, JASO, TAN, PBW, WFR, ENER, SPWRA)
This will not be the first time you have heard this statement from 24/7 Wall St… “Solar stocks may be nothing more than leveraged bets that react to sudden price moves in the price…
An Attack On Google Wireless Search Market Share
There are occasional conversations among regulators in the US and EU about whether Google (GOOG) has too much of the search engine advertising market. In America, it controls about 70% of the industry. That…
SIRIUS XM Escaping Penny Stock Status (SIRI)
It is not going to be enough to bring back some mega-losses for many multi-year investors, at least not yet, but SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has broken back above the $1.00 mark. …
Just How Bad Was Goldman’s Sneaky Greek Deal?
By Heather Horn Struggling Greece needed to conceal its deficit lest it get into trouble with the EU. American superbank Goldman Sachs had a solution: a nifty tool to conceal large loans under the…
Spain’s Surprising Bond Sale (SNF, EWP)
If you have followed all the news about sovereign debt risks in the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain), you would think that perhaps the Euro was about to implode overnight or that…
Today’s Best Market Rumors
Updated throughout the day. HSBC (NYSE:HBC) was involved in a criminal tax evasion case involving a wealthy US investor. (NYT) Shares in Man Group are higher on word that Blackrock (NYSE:BLK) may buy the company. (Reuters) The EU…
BofA/Merrill Lynch Resumes Homebuilder Coverage (TOL, BZH, KBH, RYL, DHI, HOV, PHM, LEN, MDC, XHB)
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch has initiated coverage of the homebuilder sector this morning. Technically this is a resumption of coverage. While some are positive calls, there are still some cautious undertones here from the…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADBE, CHKP, CTXS, OFC, DWA, MAT, MSFT, SNDK, TRA, VMW, VRSN, WFMI)
These are some of the top Wall Street research calls from analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Wednesday morning: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) Started as Buy at Citigroup. Check Point Software (NASDAQ:…
Big Polluters Walk Out On Enviroment Group
The U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which has worked to help the progress of federal legislation which covers carbon emissions and green house gases, lost three of its most prominent members–all of them major polluters. ConocoPhillips…
Microsoft Adds Facebook And MySpace To Outlook, Countering Google
Google’s (GOOG) new “Buzz” social network feature which has been added to the firm’s Gmail e-mail system was crticized because it could allow people access to private information from other users. Google will fix the problem,…
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…
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…