So far there are some changes seen in the holdings of Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). We have consolidated these into groups and this group is from A to G, and this is for the quarter ended on June 30, 2008: American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) over 151.6 million shares. Anheuser Busch Cos. Inc. (NYSE: BUD) taken to under 15 million shares from over 35 million shares on la...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Holdings A-G (AXP, BUD, BAC, BNI, KMX, KO, CMCSA, CDCO, COST, GCI, GE, GSK)
Thu, Aug 14, 6:03 PM ET
Here is a HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO DOWNLOAD for today.Another option to view more clearly is to add "&fmt=18" to the end of the video directly at youtube NORMAL VIEW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJEwtZDXmM%20Here is the HIGHER RES AT YOUTUBE viewhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJEwtZDXmM%20&fmt=18I am not sure how to embed the higher quality youtube view but you can go to the direct lin...
JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley jump on the Auction Rate Securities settlement bandwagon
Thu, Aug 14, 2:52 PM ET
Filed under: JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), Wachovia Corp (WB), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH)Bloomberg News reports that two more big banks -- JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) have made offers of $7 billion to 30,000 holders of Auction Rate Securities (ARS) -- those long-term securities whose yields reset in weekly ...
Filed under: Major movement, Analyst reports, General Motors (GM)General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) stock finished the day up nearly 11%, or $1.09 to $11.35 after two days of losses. It seems that overall sentiment for blue chip stocks was stronger today as buyers looked for bargains. With the recent slide in oil prices, including another decline today, many stocks previously hit by the runup in o...
Filed under: Earnings reports, Bad news, Merrill Lynch (MER)In a move that underscores how badly things are going on Wall Street, Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) has announced a freeze on new hires through the end of the year.The freeze, which excludes retail brokers, extends to previously budgeted posts as well as replacement hires, according to Bloomberg News, which broke the story. Any e...
Filed under: Exxon Mobil (XOM)The Associated Press reports that in San Antonio, TX, premium unleaded sold for 38 cents a gallon. That's what I call a bargain -- particularly since I considered myself lucky to pay $3.87 a gallon for mid-grade earlier this afternoon. It turns out that there is a little problem with this 38-cents-a-gallon gas. It was a mistake in the pump. AP interviewed Dill Food...
Filed under: Hansen Natural (HANS), Alcoa Inc (AA), Gannett Co (GCI), Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO)If you are involved in the market right now and watch the volatility with swings up and down, it might be easy to forget that trading volume is very thin and that moves can be exaggerated easily. Today's numbers, with a recession in Europe and stagflation rising in the U.S., were discounte...
Filed under: Starbucks (SBUX)Back in May, Nelson Peltz reported a stake of less than 1% in Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX), and the stock jumped 6% on the news.I was skeptical: I wrote on BloggingBuyouts that "Most likely Peltz's stake is a non-issue and will lead to no changes. I certainly don't buy that it's a good reason for the stock to add more than half a billion dollars to its marke...
Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Employees, PoliticsThe cold war between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and the unions is heating up again.Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that the world's largest retailer had warned employees that a Democratic president would back the Employee Free Choice Act, a law that would make it easier for unions to organize workers, which the company o...
Filed under: PoliticsStart with a few speculative stocks. Add a distressed-debt corporate bond portfolio, and two quantitative-based hedge funds, and a momentum-based hedge fund for the British pound/Japanese yen currency pairing.Sounds like a typical, assertive portfolio for a wealth management group or, perhaps, for an accredited investor. But a public pension fund? Public pension funds in th...