These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in a thin week of coverage and Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Reiterated Outperform but target raised to…
United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) rose over 6.5% to a yearly high of $52.47 after the United States objected to a requestion by China that the World Trade Organization make a…
We recently discussed the changes that have taken place inside Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) as Warren Buffett has gone higher up the food chain. In his more focused and more opaque…
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. (NYSE: UNH) and most healthcare related insurers are trading higher today despite the coming health-insurance reform. The Senate voted over the weekend to open a debate on its version,…
This was an important week for investment guru and billionaire watchers to see which gurus were holding which stocks. The full public equity holdings of Warren Buffett via Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:…
This is the list of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) public US equity holdings as of September 30, 2009. As noted in the “A to F” and “G to O” lists, there…
We have almost an endless wave of corporate earnings for the calendar Q3-2009 coming out next week. We have what looks to be over 100 of the S&P 500 Index members reporting…
CNBC’s Becky Quick interviewed Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) at a very unusual venue this morning…. Fortune’s Most Powerful Womenconference. The mainstay part of the discussion was the ‘one-year…
The Obama speech to a joint session of Congress last night did not exactly deliver the death blow to health insurers. It also did not give the insurers the keys to the…
It is the weekend, albeit a long three-day weekend for Labor Day. Earnings season is done, gone, bye-bye, but this coming week there are going to be some key events and key…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) has released its public stock holdings for Q2-2009 as of June 30, 2009. Buffett did make some portfolio changes that have been seen here from the end…
These are this Monday morning’s top ten Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen with close to 2 hours until the market opens: Autodesk (ADSK) Cut to Hold at…
Reuters:Â Â Microsoft (MSFT) is putting more R&D in India. Reuters:Â Â CIT (CIT) confirmed that it rasied $3 billion. Reuters:Â Â Bernanke said Fed can control inflation. Reuters:Â Â California lawmakers agreed to a state…
Obama’s health care received perhaps its harshest criticism to-date Thursday, after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it will “significantly” expand public spending in an already unbalanced budget. The testimony puts serious…
Reuters:  CIT (CIT) may be close to bankruptcy. Reuters:  China GDP rose 7.9%. Reuters:  Foreclosures hit a record in the first half of 2009. Reuters:  Obama pressed Congress on a healthcare bill. Reuters:  …
