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We have been awaiting a disclosure from Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) over its current fiasco over David Sokol’s trading in the Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE: LZ).  Now the data is out, ahead...
Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) is one of those companies that is categorized as a conglomerate by most financial analysis sector groupings.  It is not quite diversified enough by our count to be a true...
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report its first quarter earnings on Thursday morning and investors will view it as a proxy for the broader economy. Investors seem to have slightly higher...
Multiple reports are out that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) has been sued by a shareholder who is seeking disgorgement of David Sokol’s profits from Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE:...
Tyco International Ltd. (NYSE: TYC) is trading up this week on continued talk that Schneider Electric may be buying the company.  Whether you believe that this report comes true depends upon which...
A surprise has just been handed to Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B).  David Sokol is resigning from the company.  He has been considered one of Warren Buffett’s potential...
It’s 12:00 PM and that means it is time for “The M&A Daily.”  This weekend’s AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) $39 billion buyout of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile is going to have some severe...
Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE: LZ) is one comnpany we would not have really guessed as being a Warren Buffett acquisition target.  This morning came the news that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) is out with the new portfolio holdings as of December 31, 2010, so these are his new 2011 investments.  There were many changes in the prior groups due...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on December 31, 2010 and the changes were extreme due to a unit portfolio manager...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of December 31, 2010.  That makes these his new 2011 holdings and...
GE (NYSE: GE) has decided to maintain its position as the world’s largest conglomerate. It is old news that the company has been attacked for this. Recent evaluations of the one-decade tenure of...
The gains of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) have yet to abate and the shares just have refused to pull back to a point to let new investors in at a cheaper price.  Generally speaking, speeches from...
Rising commodity prices didn’t hurt fourth quarter earnings or revenues at Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW). The company posted EPS of $0.37 from profits of $511 million on revenue of $13.77 billion....
United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) is looking like another conglomerate winner.  The company beat earnings estimates, gave positive commentary, and reiterated guidance.  The news, though, was...