The Republican House and the administration have not come any closer to legislation to increase the debt cap than they were last week, but the markets have barely reacted at all. Asia…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) is out with its new portfolio holdings as of March 31, 2011. These have been broken down into two separate groups of ‘A to L’ and…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of March 31, 2011 for the Q2-2011 holdings. These public stock holdings have…
We have a very busy week ahead for equity investors, even outside of earnings season. This coming week’s key events, what we call The Unusual Suspects, is non-earnings related and includes the…
Harris Interactive came out with its new “Reputation Quotient” list. The research firm has conducted the study for 12 consecutive years. The poll is based on views about the “60 most visible…
The death of Osama bin Laden raised US futures and the dollar and pushed crude oil lower. (Reuters) The US helped cut the amount of oil China imported from Iran to punish…
Jon OggThis last week marked another solid week for investors and many stocks were on the move. We have compiled a list of stocks we are looking for event-driven trading moves in…
We took a look through more of the earnings data from the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A; BRK-B) annual meeting this morning and there was one key change in the stock holdings. We detailed Buffett’s…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A; BRK-B) is hosting its annual meeting of shareholders today and the company has just released its preliminary earnings report for the first quarter. As a reminder, Warren…
Many experts believe the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates near zero until the end of the year (Reuters) Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) says Sokol deceived the company and may have violated…
This coming weekend will mark the one weekend that the hotels, retailers, and restaurants all look forward to in Omaha, Nebraska… Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) has its much-anticipated shareholder meeting…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings surpassed expectations and the company said iPad 2 units were backlogged (Reuters) BP plc (NYSE: BP) sued Transocean (NYSE: RIG) for $40 to cover costs related to Deepwater…
Multiple reports are out that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) has been sued by a shareholder who is seeking disgorgement of David Sokol’s profits from Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE: LZ) and for the…
The Fed’s exit from QE2 may involve rate increases (Reuters) Deutsche Bank will restructure its US bank business to avoid regulation (WSJ) Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) new CEO will be carefully watched as…
The SEC has a plan to lower market volatility (Reuters) A re-balancing of the Nasdaq 100 cuts Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) influence on the index (Reuters) John Chambers, the head of Cisco (NASDAQ:…
