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...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has just filed its year-end holdings for 2009, so these are Warren Buffett’s most recent holdings going into 2010.  We have already...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research notes this Wednesday.American Campus Communities Inc. (NYSE: ACC) raised to Buy at...
Markets opened higher this morning, led by the Nasdaq which got a big boost from the strong report last night from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The report from the US Census Bureau on durable goods...
The price for WTI crude oil fell below $83/barrel momentarily today as the market takes another shellacking, down around 200 points just before noon. Both crude and the wider market are making a...
Markets opened higher this morning after positive news on new unemployment benefits claims and manufacturing (more coverage here). Indexes have risen more or less steadily all day, with the S&P set...
We already gave a full run-down position by position in the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) holdings as of December 31, 2009.  What is interesting is that this round of 13F holdings had...
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning following mostly weak reports on European PMI (more coverage here). The reading on U.S. PMI was unchanged from last month (more coverage...
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....
Is California’s debt rating safe?  Or is in the same boat as Greece?  That depends upon whom you ask.  Meredith Whitney would probably say it is not safe.  Standard & Poor’s, however, is now...
With ‘the Governator’ saying California is on the verge of financial Armageddon, there is concern about billions of investor dollars in municipal bond funds.  This raises many questions about...
In a sign of how perverse and debased the market’s reactions to simple news has become, NCC (NCC), the large regional bank, dropped from over $4 last Friday to $1.36 on Monday. Today, the shares...
Source: Jon OggIf you ever run a “value screen” in the world of stock strategies, Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) shows up all the time as a “cheap tech stock.”  Unfortunately,...
Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) is what Scarface might call a pig which won’t fly straight. The company’s stock is getting punished all over again after things looked as though they...