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Gold continues to take it on the chin. It all depends upon what you want to blame. Dennis Gartman, the 50-day moving average test, or the rising U.S. Dollar against the greenback. If you are a...
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Keating Capital, Inc. (NASDAQ: KIPO) is debuting in trading today. The closed-end fund is a pre-IPO fund and it had approximately $77 million in assets as of September 30, 2011. If you recall, we...
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Up until today, U.S. investors could only invest in (or short sell) the ADRs of National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG), Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. (NYSE: CCH), or a handful of...
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Jon Corzine was supposed to be the poster boy for modern-day finance… From the King of Finance, to New Jersey’s governor, and back to Wall Street. Now Corzine is just the King of Fall...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B) does not get new analyst calls all that often, so when a new call comes up or when a change in ratings comes up it really tends to stand out like a sore thumb. ...
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The market is surging on European hopes of the beginning of the end to the financial crisis, despite credit rating bantering out of credit ratings agencies. Now we just have to hope that Europe...
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The new question of the week is whether or not Germany will get pulled down into the soup with the rest of Europe on the growing debt woes. A horrible bond auction on Wednesday in Germany now has...
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If the news reports are accurate out of Cairo, things are going from bad all over again to far worse all over again in Egypt. It turns out that the interim government hasn’t been quite as kind...
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Central banks are contributing to world gold demand. The latest data from the World Gold Council indicate even more changes among the nations holding the most in gold reserves. Those are also some...
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The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also looking for...
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These ETF products which trade in the U.S. but are composed of a bunch of internationally listed shares are often a bit sluggish on their trading. Now we have a new ETF that may hit home for much...
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Paulson & Co. Inc. is another hedge fund group that investors use for Whale Watching, although this last quarter was not exactly kind to Mr. Paulson’s billions… The current 13F report shows...
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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 September 30, 2011 and this is the second group of ‘L to Z’ in...
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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 September 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken...
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The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) may look like it has a huge portfolio of public stocks to many investors. While that is actually true, the bulk of this is due to its portfolio companies coming...
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