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:…
Reuters: Senate Democrats unveiled their healthcare plan. Reuters: Hedge fund manage Griffin has rebounded from losses. Reuters: GM must pay its debt and become profitable before an IPO. Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) is…
The most charitable thing that can be said about Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup (NYSE:C) since December 11. 2007, is that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The bank’s…
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…
Short sellers have bought into the notion that the financial industry is in full recovery. Shares sold short in Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) fell 8% to 78.8 million shares. Shares short in CIT…
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve reported that 9 out of 10 bank holding companies that were required to raise additional capital to bolster their balance sheets have successfully done so. The Supervisory Capital…
Updated throughout the day. Updated at 11.49 AM EST: Reynolds Americam (NYSE:RAI) may buy Niconovum, a Swedish maker of nicotine gum and mouth sprays (Boomberg) Updated at 10.12 AM EST: Wells Fargo…
Wall St. likes financial statements that give it deep insights into a company’s operations, especially its liabilities. It likes boards that make sure shareholders get as complete a picture as possible of…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 1.36 PM EST: Nokia’s (NYSE:NOK) patent suit against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) could cost iPhone maker $1 billion (Reuters) The Bank of England may have to increase bond purchases…
Dick Bove of Rochdale Securities may have been responsible for today’s sell-off as many banking stocks fell late in the day. Bove has downgraded Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) to a…
Douglas A. McIntyre This morning’s banking reports from Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) and US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) might as well be called the Warren Buffett banking reports, or the banking earnings for Berkshire…
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…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 3.14 PM EST: STIC (NASDAQ:STIC) dropping on rumors that Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) database applications may hurt STIC sales (Barron’s) Updated 3.11 PM EST: Level 3 (NASDAQ:LVLT) is surging…
Reuters: E-mails and the credit crisis will be key to the trial of Bear Stearns workers. Reuters: The approval process for Tengzhong to buy Hummer has started in China. Reuters: Philips Electronics…
These are this Thursday morning’s top 10 Wall Street research calls we have seen in the land of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) Raised to Outperform at RW Baird.…
