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This weekend has perhaps the most widely followed annual meeting from any public company in America as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will have its shareholder meeting in Omaha,...
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) was touted as a hot IPO but became a sizzling hot IPO. The company priced 13.5 million shares at $17.00 per share, but this was a premium to the already-raised range of...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will be in the news quite a bit now that the world’s most famous investor, chairman Warren Buffett, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. We...
Bernie Madoff was the ultimate scum if you consider the size, time period and numbers of clients that his Ponzi scheme damaged.  It was billions of dollars lost.  There may be a new scum bag in the...
GS.COMGoldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) just seems as though it cannot get out from under the negative spotlight.  The Securities and Exchange Commission charged that the brokerage and trading...
Jon OggApparently having a short selling strategy under a hedge fund exchange-traded fund model has been working.  This week we received notice that the assets under management for...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is highlighting something which may be a concern for the popular mutual fund themes called Target Date Retirement Funds.  For the billions and billions of...
Jon OggMarc Faber, who is the publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, gave an interview on Bloomberg Television this Monday showing some real caution that is mixed with some optimism.  Faber...
You have already been told that Facebook is asking for private market exchanges to cease trading its shares.  You have also been told about a fund dedicated solely to buying Facebook shares from...
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has one more bit of evidence that it is acting as if it was its own stock index.  Its exceptional share performance is worth a substantial portion of the overall broad...
Teucrium Agricultural Fund (NYSE: TAGS) is a new agriculture ETF being launched by Teucrium Trading, LLC.  The new exchange traded product actually appears to be structured as bit like a...
The China Fund, Inc. (NYSE: CHN) is a closed-end mutual fund rather than an exchange-traded fund.  It also has traded in a sloppy manner where the fund often tracks its net asset value...
courtesy Facebook Inc.SecondMarket is taking a new approach to allowing investors to buy into Facebook ahead of the upcoming IPO, and it is quite different from any efforts to date from this...
The 30 Year Treasury yield is up to 3.42%, up from 3.18% the week earlier and up from 3.09% a month ago.  The 10-Year Treasury yield is 2.30%, up from 2.03% a week ago and up from 1.93% a month...
Everyone loves Warren Buffett’s sage advice.  Almost everyone at any rate.  But what about Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) as an investment.  We have argued that perhaps the...