Stephen Burke, the 51-year-old president of Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), has to be the new lead choice to become CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) when Warren Buffett retires or dies. Burke was added to the…
It wasn’t that long ago that we gave a list of stocks that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) needed to dump to help pay for its Burlington Northern Santa Fe…
M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offerings soared and banks began to make…
This was a wild week, and perhaps a disappointment that the news did not propel stocks even higher. There were many key movers though, and we have a very active panel of…
Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) has to be thankful that it is not just a newspaper company as most tend to think of it. Today, came an analyst rating action that was…
Douglas A. McIntyre SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI) is getting hit this morning, although perhaps not as harshly as the call might sound. Meredith Whitney put on her banker Scrooge hat and issued a SELL…
We recently discussed the changes that have taken place inside Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) as Warren Buffett has gone higher up the food chain. In his more focused and more opaque…
This was an important week for investment guru and billionaire watchers to see which gurus were holding which stocks. The full public equity holdings of Warren Buffett via Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:…
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” lists, there…
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. Here are…
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 the holdings with…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has just reported its Q3-2009 earnings ahead of the formal expectations. This will be perhaps one of the last similar earnings reports with a relative…
Updated throughout the day. Citigroup (NYSE:C) will re-launch some of its least successful hedge funds (FT) The stock market is at risk of not holding 10,000. (TheStreet) AIG (NYSE:AIG) will not hold a…
These are this mornings top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Thursday from Wall Street research calls: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A) was put on CreditWach (negative) on Wednesday afternoon, which…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.30 AM EST: Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) believes that EU authorities may try to block its buy-out of Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) (FT) Updated 10:26 AM EST: Apollo Management is buying debt…
