Stung by outsize investment losses, some of the nation’s biggest companies are pushing Congress to roll back rules requiring them to put more money into their pension funds, just two years after President Bush signed a law meant to strengthen the pension system, The New York Times’s Mary Williams Walsh reports. President Bush signed the Pension [...]
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As the stock market tumbled to its lowest level in nearly six years on Wednesday, Wall Street traders and many ordinary Americans were asking the same question: Where, oh where is the bottom? After a yearlong slide in stocks and a giant bank rescue from Washington, even some pessimists had hoped that the worst might be [...]
U.S. stocks were poised to extend losses Thursday, a day after a rout on Wall Street sent the blue-chip Dow average below 8,000 for the first time since 2003.
The Pound continued to fall leading up to the U.K. retail sales report, before it pared some of its losses when the reading was better than expected. However,...
Well they tried... as they say over at Minyanville.com, the cancer just might be larger than the system - this is what seems to be happening. As we wrote Tuesday [S&P 500 Looks Ready to Bow Out] we were anticipating this and unlike last Thursday we would actually not be anticipating any turnaround and in fact be riding this leg down...I come from the school that the more times you test a le...
Markets in Asia fell sharply. The Nikkei was off 6.9% to 7,703. Canon and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial took huge losses. The Hang Seng fell 4.2% to 12,279. The Shanghai Composite was off 1.7% to 1,984. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was down 2.1% to 3,921. The Dax fell 2.6% to 4,245. The CAC 40 dropped 2.4% to 3,014. Data from Reuters. Douglas A. McIntyre
Market broke through October lows yesterday. Just what I was afraid of. Let's see if it goes straight down to 7700.Steve Ballmer of Microsoft (MSFT) repeated yesterday that they don't want to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) anymore. Surprise! Not for me. In February Microsoft had a lot of free cash to pay for Yahoo! (terms of the deal were half stock and half cash). Not anymore, all that cash is allocated al...
From Vince Farrell at RealMoney: A report making the rounds today [Wednesday] detailed managers' Form 13-F filings. This report shows what managers own. Their holdings of U.S. stocks by and large plummeted. The decline in the size of the positions could be from market share losses or the sale of a position, or most likely, both.
This 2 part series will cover recent market developments about Berkshire Hathaway, points to a strategy on how you may benefit more on the same trades he did recently and an option trading strategy that probably Berkshire uses for maximizing it returns on the underlying they find worth investing. Don’t forget to read the big picture of US stock markets. Markets are behaving pretty much th...
Cheer up. Your losses can’t be as big as Uncle Warren’s.