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While everyone remains focused on the jobs report and the European meltdown, investors are having a harder and harder time finding real investment returns. Germany actually saw negative yields...
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Bill Gross is the de facto Bond King. Running a giant institution like PIMCO give you quite some power. Gross makes monthly outlooks and his June report is not offering any great hope for a...
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Reports of what appears to be am effective government takeover of Bankia in Spain, ongoing debt and capital concerns of the banks, and borrowing costs approaching 7% are all culminating with the...
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So much for any great help from the ECB, France, Germany, and any other entity being able to help the Euro stay together. Rumors have been out that nations have been instructed to make contingency...
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Gold and silver have finally indicated that the free fall we saw over the last month may have at least stabilized. The markets are mixed today in the commodities and the miners and we admit that no...
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Bonds of the Treasury variety may be the safe haven against a falling stock market. They hardly pay anything in yield, but they haven’t yet faced a meltdown. The woes of Europe, the slowing BRIC...
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Finally we are going to get stop hearing about the IPO of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). This is the largest IPO of its kind ever and appears to be the third largest IPO in U.S. history. For those...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been a phenomenal growth story. It is the ultimate turnaround story of mega-proportions. The stock is also up 32% so far in 2012. The problem is something else…...
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The World Gold Council has released its first quarter report on global gold demand. Some of the report may be as most expected, but the report also contains some interesting tidbits when you...
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24/7 Wall St. published the full list of positions already for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). While there were some surprises out there and 24/7 Wall St. tracked some of...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of March...
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GSV Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GSVC) is taking it on the chin this morning because the company has sold another secondary offering of common shares so that it can go out and buy more portfolio...
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Jon OggSo, just two weeks ago it looked as though “Sell in May and go away!” was not going to be as strong of a theme in 2012 compared to 2011 and to 2010. In 2010 the market had enjoyed a 13...
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Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. is getting aggressive against Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK). This is no ordinary shareholder either: it is the largest listed shareholder. The new...
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Warren Buffett hosted the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) over the weekend and this Monday morning he gave a long interview to CNBC. In the interview Mr. Buffett noted how he still thinks...
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