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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...
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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...
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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...
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Media reports questioning whether the United States will keep its “Triple-A Rating” in the future are frequent. The fear of endless budget deficit spending and quantitative easing have only...
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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....
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Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers...
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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...
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The rising dividend theme of 2010 is already continuing in 2011 and this looks to be another great year for investors seeking higher dividends. We have seen three fresh dividend hikes from Carnival...
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The reaction to the news of a conglomerate break-up in a three-way separation was incredible for ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) yesterday. Shares closed up 16.5% rather than over 20% and the closing...
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ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) after the same strategy recently announced by Fortune Brands Inc. (NYSE: FO) and what Tyco International Ltd. (NYSE: TYC) did in 2007. The company is splitting itself up...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) was the first of the large corporate bond issues for 2011. Yesterday brought the pricing of a 3-traunch bond issue from its Berkshire Hathaway...
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We have already issued many sector calls for 2011 with our outlooks and we have even given a 2011 DJIA target of 13,042 based upon the same methodology that got us within about 1% of the DJIA close...
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2010 has been a positive year for the markets. IPOs and secondary offerings have been plentiful, debt offerings have been plentiful, and restructurings continue. Many spin-offs have been...
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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is setting its 2011 goals in an analyst and investor meeting today in his presentation called the “GE Annual Outlook Investor Meeting.” GE just recently hiked...
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There had been a rumor that General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) was going to hike its dividend again, and that rumor turned out to be true. GE just announced that it has raised its quarterly...
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