These are the last of Warren Buffett's and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) holdings as of June 30, 2008: Torchmark Corp. (NYSE: TMK) more than 3.51 million shares in multiple lots US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) more than 68 million shares in multiple lots USG Corp. (NYSE: USG) 17.07 million shares Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP) 8.9 million shares United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) 1.429 million ...
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The rapid weakening of economic growth outside the United States has been helping the U.S. dollar. Now, with the rest of the world economy slowing down...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens said on Thursday crude prices may soon fall as low as $110 a barrel amid falling gasoline demand, but should not sink below $100 because the United States depends heavily on oil imports.
Paula Wagner, the longtime producing partner of Tom Cruise, is stepping down as the chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s United Artists label, less than two years after she and Cruise fled the Paramount Pictures lot for UA.
Retail sales fell 0.1% in July, as home values declined, unemployment rose, and consumers cut back on big-ticket spending. The decline was the first drop in five months and followed a 0.3% up-tick in June, the Commerce Department reported yesterday (Wednesday). Sales at dealerships and parts stores were at the forefront of losses dropping 2.4%. Excluding automobiles, retail sales rose 0.4%. Aut...
There’s more bad news for those of you who are worrying about the United States’ global geo-strategic position. According to a recent report, starting next year, Chinese manufacturing output will exceed that of the United States. In concrete figures, of the world’s $11.8 trillion of manufacturing value added output expected to be produced in 2009, China will account for 17%, while the United St...
Tech Opportunities Closer to Ground Greetings once again. I hope you’re having a good week. There are just a few things I’d like to deal with today. One is the persistent pessimism I’m seeing in both the media and the polls. I just looked at Gallup’s daily numbers, and the phenomenon is clear. More than three-quarters of Americans believe we are in some sort of recession. 40% believe their stan...
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...
By Martin Hutchinson There’s more bad news for those of you who are worrying about the United States’ global geo-strategic position. According to a recent report, starting next year, Chinese manufacturing output will exceed that of the United States. In concrete figures, of the world’s $11.8 trillion of manufacturing value added output expected to be produced in 2009, China will account for 17%...
The British pound plummeted to its lowest level against the dollar yesterday since October 2006. It now seems possible that sterling has replaced the U.S. dollar as the world’s worst currency following a spate of bad economic news. On a trade weighted basis the pound declined to an 11-year low yesterday and continues to drop this morning. The economic data in the United Kingdom has gone from ba...