Each January, 24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead. This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is likely to pass Exxon Mobil…
It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% and the…
If you have been watching the share prices of the solar stocks, you will understand the joke (and perhaps not even laugh) that investing in these has turned many 401-K retirement funds…
Getting a dividend of over 4% from a technology company is no simple task, even as many technology leaders have decided that higher dividends can finally start to be used to reward…
This last weekend brought the first waves of picks for 2012. Barron’s issued its “10 Favorite Stocks For 2012” and the stocks were just about all lower on Monday with a very…
It may be that holiday spending actually is accelerating into mid-December. Some economists argued that the surge of Black Friday activity would burn out consumer activity. The contrary is true, based on…
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has acquired the Topaz solar far in southern California from First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR). The 550-megawatt solar…
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is living up to its “stock of the decade” status. The king of dollar stores in retail is surging after beating earnings expectations this morning. In fact,…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B) does not get new analyst calls all that often, so when a new call comes up or when a change in ratings comes up it really tends…
Is Warren Buffett just an old softie? Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A, BRK-B) has announced that it is purchasing the Oracle of Omaha’s hometown newspaper, the Omaha World-Herald, and six other daily…
Germany’s mixed bag. Two key economic figures out of Germany offset one another. GDP grew 0.5% in the third quarter. The number was up 2.6% from the same quarter last year. The advance…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of September 30, 2011 and this is the second group of ‘L to…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of September 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken down into two…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is set to release its third quarter’s full investment holdings very soon in an SEC filing. An unusual pre-release interview was given by Warren Buffett to CNBC…
Warren Buffett and his team at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) went out buying stocks in this last quarter according to the firm’s quarterly report. Sadly, no one outside of…
