Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett are both revered by many sorts of investors. One investor who has held shares of Berkshire Hathaway for a long time is Whitney Tilson…
Media General Inc. (NYSE: MEG) has done well since Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) (NYSE: BRK-A) invested heavily into the company by purchasing the majority of the news and…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) rarely gets analyst research calls from Wall St. research and independent research shops. When it does, many investors tend to pick apart the data hoping to find…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) managed to do something rather unique today along with the Bernanke and QE3 led rally. The stock did not just reach a new 52-week high. GE hit…
Solar maker First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) will not ship any more modules to the company’s Agua Caliente solar farm project until January 2013. The stoppage is the result of the project…
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB) is proving why it was on our own proprietary list of the 7 Safest Large Banks in America. Standard & Poor’s has just raised the bank’s corporate credit…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings showing that there have been some significant changes in the positions of the Berkshire…
Pipeline MLP Plains All American Pipeline LP (NYSE: PAA) will build a new crude oil rail facility in Tampa, Colo., to receive and transport up to 68,000 barrels per day of crude…
U.S. stocks are set to open higher, resuming gains following Friday’s upbeat July jobs report. No major economic reports are due on Monday. Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN) and Chesapeake Energy Corp.…
Crude oil refiners have enjoyed a pretty good earnings season so far. Tesoro Corp. (NYSE: TSO) and Western Refining Inc. (NYSE: WNR) both posted better-than-expected revenues and profits this morning, following in…
Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) is often considered the greatest investor in modern times. Some of us think that his status should be one of “The greatest…
Railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (NYSE: GWR) announced this morning that it would acquire RailAmerica Inc. (NYSE: RA) for $27.50 per share in an all-cash deal worth about $1.39 billion. Genesee…
Shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are up about 8% in the early afternoon on the company’s announcement that it has now installed another 100 megawatts of solar panels at its…
At last week’s Rio+20 conference in Brazil, a representative of Standard & Poor’s Latin American office told a panel on sustainable development that “banks and utilities are unlikeloy to provide financing of…
If you have watched the flow of news out of Asia and Europe over the last month, you might have had a reason to think that the world was going to hell in a handbasket. …
