ThinkstockThe federal government has been buying sugar since June as it is required to do by law when the price falls below $0.21 a pound. Uncle Sugar indeed! A report at Bloomberg…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett generally hold close to 40 different stock positions in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio of U.S.-listed shares. Anyone who has…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Whatever damage Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has sustained in the stock market as its hyper-growth slows to more modest levels, it still owns the most valuable brand in the world. In…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) are the most respected brands in the United States. While Coke has enjoyed this status for six years straight, Pepsi moved…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaLast week brought the latest full equity holdings of Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B). While several key changes were made in the stakes, actually…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) and Warren Buffett have released the conglomerate’s stock holdings as of June 30, 2013. This 13F filing with the SEC shows that…
With stocks within a few percentage points of all-time highs and with the stocks in a confirmed bull market, we wanted to consider the effect of stock splits in a time when market…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has subpoenaed documents and other communications and records going back to 2010 from a metals warehousing firm. Reuters reports exclusively that “a source with direct…
courtesy of The Coca-Cola CompanyThe UBS quality growth at a reasonable price recommendation list (Q-GARP) is very timely for investors concerned that the stock market may be overbought and ripe for a…
ThinkstockInvestors love dividends. Becoming one of the 30 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average does not come with assurance that a company will pay a dividend, nor does it come with…
courtesy of FordAll of the Wall Street firms we cover, especially the large bulge bracket firms, have an extensive equity coverage list. In many cases the large firms cover more than 500…
ThinkstockSunday’s New York Times story on the shenanigans played by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) at its aluminum warehouse in Detroit is nothing especially new. What is new is that the…
ThinkstockFollowing last month’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the euro-U.S. dollar exchange rate (EURUSD) fell to just over 80. Less than a month later the EURUSD came within a few ticks of…
Trian Fund Management, under Nelson Peltz, owns a stake more than $1.3 billion in shares of PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP). Now the fund group is becoming more of an activist as the…
July 16, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened a bit higher this morning but almost instantly turned lower and remained in the red virtually all day. In Europe, Germany’s ZEW economic sentiment survey…
