DaVita Inc. (NYSE DVA) is turning out to pay off already for Team Buffett over at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A). We do not have a real tally of what Buffett’s new portfolio…
The US Surface Transportation Board has agreed to hold a hearing on March 22nd to review a filing by the Western Coal Traffic League challenging the inclusion of $8.1 billion in the…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of December 31, 2011. We have included some accompanying notes on each 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 December 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken down into…
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) may be loved by Warren Buffett now with the huge stake owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A), but it turns out that the brokerage firm…
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has downgraded many sovereign AAA ratings lately. Many large stable corporations have also lost their prized “AAA” ratings in the last decade. In fact, there is now just a…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) was already the best performing DJIA stock with gains of more than 20% since the end fo 2011. Now it has even more legs after the…
Verisk Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSK) has only been public since the end of 2009 and its stock has risen from under $28 to about $40 during that time period. So why is the risk…
99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN) is set to report earnings on Wednesday. We still want to know if the trap of Family Dollar Stores Inc. (NYSE: FDO) will come into play…
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…
