Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is holding a public secondary offering of 25 million shares which are being sold by private equity backers who still own a large part of the company. …
British newspaper The Guardian has a blog post saying there is speculation that US coal miner Walter Energy Inc. (NYSE: WLT) could be a ripe for a takeover fight among three potential…
Everyone loves Warren Buffett’s sage advice. Almost everyone at any rate. But what about Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) as an investment. We have argued that perhaps the Berkshire Hathaway…
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) has announced that the Federal Reserve did not object to its capital return plan for its shareholders. The first quarter dividend is effectively more than doubling…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B) (NYSE: BRK.B) is very widely followed due to the great performance through time and due to the following of the great Warren Buffett. It has been an…
The precious metals subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A; BRK-B) has agreed to acquire the US business of UK precious metals firm Cookson Group PLC. No price was announced. Richline Group,…
Before you hit the panic button too hard, ask yourself just how accurate you think the weatherman is. All cynical thinking aside, AccuWeather.com is calling for an above-normal year of tornado activity…
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…
2012 is getting off to a great start for the equity markets. We recently looked at the performance of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B), which is underperforming this year so…
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…
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…
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…
This last week had some very interesting and influential analyst calls. We compile summaries of many top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations each morning from Wall Street research calls and we then…
