I recently took a trip to my neighborhood book store and perused the business section.
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August 6 - News
Despite this, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), Wall Street's "fear index," continued its descent, shedding 1.17% to close at 11.84.
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August 6 - Hedge Funds
The logic is simple: If you are going to be a net buyer of stocks in the future, either directly with your own money or indirectly ... you are hurt when stocks rise.
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August 5 - News
Zacks Investment Research just upgraded electric generating company NV Energy, Inc.
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August 5 - News
If you look at Berkshire Hathaway's latest 13F filing, you'll see three credit companies listed: American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA), and Visa Inc (...
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August 5 - News
The news that Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) is exiting the mortgage joint venture arena is grabbing headlines, but it shouldn't surprise anyone.
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July 29 - News
Since 1992, my family has held season tickets for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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July 29 - News
Back in late May, MidAmerican Energy, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), made a $5.59 billion offer to buy NV Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NVE).
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July 29 - Hedge Funds
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) growth over the last year would be impressive, at least, if you ignored the upward drift of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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July 29 - News
It's no secret that Warren Buffett has had tremendous success investing in large, well-known companies, many of which appear in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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July 28 - News
Warren Buffett will turn 83 in August, which means that according to the Social Security Administration's period life table, the world's greatest living investor will have a 91...
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July 27 - News
The Bakken play produces vast amounts of gas and oil that need to be transported, either by pipeline or railroad.
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July 25 - News
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc (NYSE:HIG) will release its quarterly report on Monday, and the insurance company's prospects have been looking increasingly favorable lately...
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July 25 - News
The surge in U.S. oil production since 2008 has created tremendous opportunities for the midstream companies involved in oil storage and transportation.
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July 25 - News
eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY)'s various businesses are growing quite nicely at the moment, but I'm surprisingly disappointed with the company nonetheless.
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July 25 - News
Warren Buffett, investor extraordinaire and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), will always outperform you.
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July 24 - Hedge Funds
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) has delivered truly amazing returns for investors who were smart enough to invest with Buffett and Munger for the long term.
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July 24 - News
Many popular consumer brands are owned by a parent company that you've never heard of.
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July 24 - News
The incredible bull market fed by Ben Bernanke's monetary stimulus has inflated the prices of many stocks well beyond their intrinsic value.
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July 24 - News
A slew of corporate earnings announcements have recently marked the opening session of Q2 earnings.
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July 23 - News
Happy Friday! There are more good news articles, commentaries, and analyst reports on the Web every week than anyone could read in a month.
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July 22 - News
Some advisors like to tell you that the stock market is efficient, and that all the available information has been ‘priced in.’ Professionals have better, quicker access to...
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July 22 - News
On July 16, giant beverage company The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) released its quarterly report.
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July 18 - News
Oil production in the U.S. has zoomed higher over the past couple of years and is now at the highest level in about two decades.
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July 18 - News
The wind of change is blowing through the headquarters of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT).
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July 18 - News
For those of you keeping track, remember that Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (NYSE:KKD) already completed a $20 million share repurchase program last fiscal year, and Monday's press ...
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July 17 - News
Fool columnist Alyce Lomax wrote a great article on Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) this week, and it got me to thinking.
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July 17 - News
The deal not only unsettled investors by employing a combination of cash and stock, but it was also significantly larger than the typically small acquisitions that President and...
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July 17 - News
Conglomerates offer a tremendous amount of diversification for investors, while allowing you to avoid the over-diversification associated with index funds, and the management ...
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July 17 - News
The Progressive Corporation (NYSE:PGR) will release its June earnings report on Thursday, but shareholders haven't waited to start the celebration.
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July 15 - News
When I run across a company I might be interested in as an investment -- one that I know next to nothing about -- I typically start my investigation by just jumping in and taking...
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July 15 - News
Over on MarketWatch, a site run by the Wall Street Journal, Paul Merriman recently published an article entitled Warren Buffett: More myth than legend.
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July 15 - News
On Monday, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett just gave a total of 22,870,529 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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July 12 - News
Mr. Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) is famous for his unique investment theses.
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July 11 - News
Back in 2005, just before Gillette was acquired by The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), Warren Buffett said that he just loves to wake up in the morning knowing there were ...
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July 10 - News
Can we really justify paying CEOs the money we do? The latest data shows top executives at the largest U.S.
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July 10 - News
OK, so you've seen the epic market-cap duel between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM).
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July 10 - News
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is the architect of the internet. It produces the routers and switches without which there would be no internet.
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July 9 - News
Warren Buffett's biggest winner is The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO), according to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B)'s latest annual report.
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July 9 - Stock Analysis
To paraphrase the Oracle of Omaha, "That 100 shares of stock doesn't know that you own it." I've echoed that philosophy on occasion, telling clients that a hundred shares of...
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July 8 - Stock Analysis
Warren Buffett has been nothing short of a master dealmaker for the better part of five decades now.
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July 8 - News
If you've read some of my musings here at the Fool, you're probably aware I have no qualms extolling the virtues of Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL).
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July 5 - News
The United States is pumping out more crude oil than the country’s pipelines can carry.
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July 5 - News
If you want to get rich, invest in Nebraska. Nebraska is home to five great publicly-traded companies.
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July 5 - News
No investor is a bigger superstar than Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A)'s Warren Buffett.
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July 5 - News
Insurance companies have created an entire industry based upon risk, and except for American International Group, Inc.
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July 5 - News
I believe the most commonly used non-GAAP term in the financial industry is the metric of EBITDA.
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July 3 - News
There are many ways to play a housing rebound.
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July 3 - News
A friend of mine was recently telling me about his investment in The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO).
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July 2 - News
Investors and shareholders often times make big mistakes when trying to assess the true value of a company.
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July 2 - News