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…
We have been awaiting a disclosure from Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) over its current fiasco over David Sokol’s trading in the Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE: LZ). Now the data is out, ahead…
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…
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) took a big hit in the news as shareholders sued over Sokol trades in Lubrizol. American Electric Power and NRG both pulled bad press over nuclear power facilities.…
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…
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is further capitulating to Elliott Management in an activist move. Its CEO left under pressure last week and the restructuring addresses what Elliott had previously proposed in a…
GS.COMGoldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) managed to beat earnings expectations this Tuesday. The bank holding company without a bank reported earnings of $ 1.56 EPS and revenues fell 6.9% to $11.89…
A surprise has just been handed to Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B). David Sokol is resigning from the company. He has been considered one of Warren Buffett’s potential heirs…
GS.COMFriday was D-Day at the Federal Reserve. D-Day is Dividend Day where the government got tell which of the bailed out financial companies could begin rewarding shareholders again via higher dividends and…
The economy and investment categories may both be normalizing again, but dividend investors will get to start looking at banks again. Today was D-Day for Dividend Day as the Federal Reserve is freeing up the…
Lubrizol (NYSE: LZ) is being bought by Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) for $9 billion. Investors seem to think that is too low. Toyota (NYSE: TM) is hurt by earthquake and interruption of…
Chinese car maker BYD Co. (OTC: BYDDF) posted strong sales in 2008 and 2009 and predicted that sales in 2010 would nearly double, to about 800,000 units. In August, the company, in which…
Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE: LZ) is one comnpany we would not have really guessed as being a Warren Buffett acquisition target. This morning came the news that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE:…
It was rather surprising when we saw that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A, BRK-B) had suddenly sold all of the Iron Mountain Inc. (NYSE: IRM) holdings back in mid-November. After…
Ben Bernanke may indicate to Congress that the recovery is tentative and that the $600 billion QE2 program is still necessary. (Reuters) Future US auto sales may be undermined by high gas…
