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…
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…
A great deal of the most harsh business press is related to Warren Buffett companies and the Sokol insider trading scandal. The puts Berkshire Hathaway and Lubrizol on the list Allergan received…
