Warren Buffett News: The Global Franchise Business Warren Buffett Loves the Most
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) just recently reported impressive quarter earnings results. It seems that KO is still a growth story.
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Warren Buffett News: Billions of Reasons to Think Like Warren Buffett
Having the status of Warren Buffett’s favorite stock pick is a title to reckon with.
How Can Target and Best Buy Combat Amazon.com (AMZN)?
Announced yesterday, Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) plans to join Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) and others with a price-match plan this holiday season.
Is Best Buy a Good Investment?
Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) announced last week that it plans to match competitor prices for the upcoming holiday shopping season.
Why is This Private Equity Firm Dumping Dollar General?
Per a Form 4 filing last week, it was made public that Buck Holdings is continuing its selloff of one of the U.S.’s leading discount retailers, Dollar General Corp.
Warren Buffett News: Buffett Picks Up A Gem In SA
THE world's most successful investor, Warren Buffett, has bought a South African jewellery manufacturer -- his first investment in the country.
Warren Buffett News: Wells Fargo Will Prove Warren Buffett’s Housing Call
Amid recent data on rising home prices, falling foreclosure rates and expected gains in overall mortgage refinancing and lending activity, watch for Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE...
Warren Buffett Had a Beef With Intel, But These Funds Disagree
Warren Buffett may be the most emulated money manager in the history of finance, let alone the past century.
Arena Pharma (ARNA), Vivus (VVUS): Which Hedge Funds Made the Wrong Pharma Bets?
Since the end of 2Q, the very popular biopharma companies, Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARNA), Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOR) and Vivus, Inc.
How Hedge Funds are Trading the Big Banks: JPMorgan (JPM), Citigroup (C), Wells Fargo (WFC), Bank of America (BAC)
The best performing big bank stock so far this month might be a surprise, with the surprise winner being Citigroup (NYSE:C), up over 6% so far this month.
Warren Buffett News: Beware of Buffett’s Bet on Newspapers
In 2011, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Why is Highbridge Capital Upping Its Stake in This Tech Company?
In a 13G filing last week, billionaire fund manager Glenn Russell Dubin of Highbridge Capital Management announced that his firm now had a 5.15% ownership stake in Echostar Corporation...
This Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Wants a Murphy Oil Spinoff
Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR) was up over 5% last week on the news that Third Point believes the Murphy’s shares should be 60% higher.
Hedge Fund News: Dan Loeb, David Einhorn, Steven Cohen
We have just obtained Dan Loeb’s Third Point hedge fund stat sheet for September, which discloses a new position in ‘Greek Government Bonds (GGB)’ (more on the position...
Is Netflix a Better Buy Than Amazon? This Hedge Fund Manager Thinks So
During Whitney Tilson’s presentation yesterday at the 8th Annual Value Investing Congress he identified three key long ideas.
Why Did Warren Buffett Buy More Shares of This Healthcare Company?
In a Form 3 filing issued with the SEC earlier this morning, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Billionaire Warren Buffett Holds This Regional Bank, Should You?
From "the Wizard" to "the Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett is a man that is known by many names in the financial world.
Why is ‘Mini’ Berkshire Hathaway Selling Out of This Manufacturing Company?
Mueller Industries, Inc. (NYSE:MLI) in an amended 13G filing earlier this week announced plans to repurchase all 10,422,859 of the shares owned by Leucadia National Corp.
Why Does John Paulson Love Gold?
On the back of QE3, commodities are sure to have an illustrious future, with gold having the potential to lead the way.
QE3: Time to Buy Financials?
With QE3 now in play, we believe that several funds may be set to capitalize on the policy’s impact on financials.
Hedge Fund News: Chase Coleman, Ray Dalio, 3G Capital
It isn't every day that Ray Dalio opens up to the world and speaks. Dalio is widely considered the most powerful hedge fund manager in the world.
First Eagle’s Top Stock Picks
Born in France, Jean-Marie Eveillard entered the world of finance in 1962 with an analyst job at Societe Generale. Eveillard then relocated to the U.S.
10 High-Dividend Stocks That Could Afford to Pay You Double
We have identified ten stocks that have high dividend yields – those greater than 3% - that could afford to pay double their current dividend, i.e.
Which Hedge Funds Predicted the Railway Downgrade?
Earlier today, UBS made sweeping downgrades in the railroad sector, citing decline of coal and grain volumes as the main reason.
Liberty Media, AutoNation Among Murray Stahl’s Top Stock Picks
Murray Stahl founded Horizon Kinetics, the parent company of Horizon Asset Management, in 1985.
Why Is Buffett A DIRECTV subscriber?
According to Berkshire Hathaway’s 13F filing for the second quarter, Warren Buffett’s holding company increased its stake in DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV) by 24% between the beginning...
Barton Biggs’s Top 5 Stock Picks
Barton Biggs and his firm Traxis Partners began a pivot of their portfolio in the second quarter and refrained from making any bold bets before Biggs passed away in July 2012 ...
Why Did Buffett Liquidate His Position in Intel?
Former Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) CEO Andy Grove was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and deserves credit for coining the phrase “only the paranoid survive.” ...
Why Does Warren Buffett Like BNY Mellon?
At the end of March, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Longhorn Capital Loves Wal-Mart, Campbell, and GEO Group
Kris Kristynik and Longhorn Capital currently have a large portion of their capital allocated to ETFs - approximately 91% - but Kristynik does have a select group of stocks that...
2 Media Stocks Loved By Warren Buffett
There are many tactics being used by money managers today, from growth-focused strategies to those that seek out high dividend investments.
Facebook Inc. (FB) to Conduct Buyback to Pay IRS
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) could very well be a very good value at its current $19 price, at least as one valuation expert and NYU finance professor believe.
Warren Buffett and Jim Cramer Both Like These Stocks
Former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer is now a financial television host at CNBC who continues to invest through his charitable trust.
Warren Buffett Likes This Building Materials Stock
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway kept its position in USG Corporation (NYSE:USG) unchanged at just over 17 million shares throughout the second quarter, refusing to take ...
Hedge Fund News: Steven Mandel, Sam Israel, John Paulson
According to a 13G just filled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Steven Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital LLC has now owns 8,645,289 shares of Verisign, Inc.
Google Inc. (GOOG) Facing Intense Digital Wallet Competition
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has built its empire on making things easier for users of digital devices.
Warren Buffett’s Recent Stock Picks
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are going down in history, so investors should keep an eye on their investment activity as long as possible and drill into the activity as...
Warren Buffett’s 7 High Dividend Stock Picks For Income Investors
Warren Buffett is one of the greatest investors of all time.
What’s Up with Buffett’s Phillips 66 Play?
In a July 13 Bloomberg Television interview, Warren Buffett reported that his mega-hedge fund Berkshire Hathaway has a significant stake in Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX).
Warren Buffett Loves Just One Of These PBMs, Shouldn’t You?
Express Scripts Holding Company (ESRX) is the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company since its acquisition of Medco Health Solutions this year.
Will Warren Buffett Back Bill Ackman in his $PG Crusade?
Bill Ackman runs Pershing Square, an activist hedge fund that buys significant stakes in companies to influence management decisions.
Test your risk intelligence – and become a smarter investor
Projection Point, a purveyor of ‘risk intelligence solutions’, say risk intelligence is the ability to estimate probabilities accurately and that people with high risk intelligence...
Hedge Fund News: William Ackman, Julian Robertson, Seth Klarman
William Ackman had to wait only six weeks after winning a proxy fight at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) for his choice as chief executive officer to get the job.
Warren Buffett News: ‘I Do Not Have Any Secret Sauce’
The patron saint of local newspapers told The New York Times' Christine Haughney that there's no magic formula for his papers' success.
Here is How Warren Buffett Lost $150 Million Today
Procter & Gamble (PG) lowered its April-June sales forecast to 2-3% from the earlier expected 4-5% causing the stock to drop $2.06 or 3.3% on heavy volume in morning trade on ...
Hedge Fund News: R. Allen Stanford, Ray Dalio, Scopia Capital
Convicted hedge fund fraudster R. Allen Stanford said yesterday that he's no Bernard Madoff, but a federal judge sentenced him to a Madoff-like 110 years in prison, anyway.
What is Warren Buffett Buying and Selling Recently?
These days, discussions surround Warren Buffett are often speculation over his successor at Berkshire Hathaway.
Hedge Fund News: Mohnish Pabrai, Eric Sprott, Paul Singer
Celebrity financier Arpad Busson has been mulling a sale of EIM, the hedge fund investor he founded in the 1990s, for several months but buyers with pockets as big as the firm...
Hedge Fund News: John Burbank, Julian Robertson, Ray Dalio
Blackstone Group has raised its exposure to former Citadel trader Nick Taylor by putting up another $50 million to co-invest with his Asia-focused hedge fund, sources said, a ...
