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…
24/7 Wall St. has been using valuation analysis for value investors for a couple of weeks and we wanted to review the conglomerates in a search for the best value for long-term…
Updated throughout the day. AirAsia will up its Airbus order to 300 planes (Reuters) Strauss-Kahn lawyers may meet with prosecutors to settle charges or dismiss them completely (NYPost) Sony (NYSE: SNE) said…
Banks object to plans that would allow regulators to clawback pay if a bank becomes troubled and has to be liquidated (Reuters) Geithner has not told The White House he wants to…
The markets are currently shaky and investors are looking for cover. While many seek defensive stocks and while many seek high dividends to offer equity exposure with some safety, one area that…
Transatlantic Holdings Inc. (NYSE: TRH) and Allied World Assurance Company Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: AWH) are getting to see the gains and pains of what exactly a “merger of equals” translates to. These…
Jon C. Ogg Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) has not noticed that there have been five weeks of selling off in the broader equity markets nor that the economic data has faltered. Shares have held…
Uncle Sam is making a profit on AIG, sort of, so far… This huge highly awaited offering from American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has been priced and this should be considered…
This week we highlighted some of the big whale watching portfolio changes. Yep, the stock holdings from the likes of Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A), and other great billionaire…
Jon OggIt was just on May 4, 2011 that ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE) released its quarterly earnings and when it outlined its costs pertaining to that catastrophe in Japan. It appears that…
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…
The recent weakness in stocks could just be the start of what to expect in the weeks ahead. It is early May and already we have seen the Dow Jones Industrial Average…
The Flame Index started as a research tool in 2008 at the NY Innovation Design Lab (nyidlab). It was used as a general metric to evaluate companies and their risk in the…
