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This weekend, Barron’s wrote an article noting that shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) were finally cheap.  After closing at $90,000 on Friday and seeing a low of $74,100 last week,...
The speculation has been brewing all week (longer actually, but let’s move on) where Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) was going.  Many believed an ‘AIG-esque’ package was coming, and many believed a...
If you have read us for very long, you will know how critical we have been of Gap, Inc. (NYSE: GPS).  The company just couldn’t get it right.  This was a fairly tale growth story of the 1990’s,...
Tonight on CNBC’s MAD MONEY, Jim Cramer hosted Doug Novak, CEO of Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM), to discuss the economy and the company’s place in casual dining during a major economic slowdown. ...
Some investors have been so rattled by this market that they have taken their money and run. Even Treasuries are not safe enough. What if the US government defaults? Of course, Treasuries are a safe...
Good deeds should be their own rewards, but in the stock market that it not entirely true. Good earnings, especially in a harsh world, are supposed to yield shareholders something. In the perverse...
There were several pieces of bad news today, but three stand out. This news may have been the primary cause of the market sell-off which took the Dow down 679 points, or 7.3%, to 8,579. The market...
Jim Cramer wants people to sell all of their stocks. Even though the market may keep falling, that might not be a practical solution for everyone. There are several things investors can do to at...
It appears that every stock in the market is being crushed, but that is not entirely so. Several companies in industries not likely to be badly by a deep recession are doing well, and should continue...
This last weekend we began screening for technology stocks with extremely low P/E multiples which are still showing growth.  The two giant independent disk drive and hard drive data storage stocks...
This weekend we gave many updates to our favorite stocks in the under $10 category.  Of our stocks, Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) remains perhaps the cheapest of the internet stocks which fit within our...
This weekend we issued updated targets and scenarios for our favorite stocks in the under $10.00 universe, and Flextronics International Ltd. (NASDAQ: FLEX) was one of the value names that came in...
You know it’s a rough day in the market when even defensive stocks are weak or mixed.  We are at least seeing a mixed bag from some of these. But the trend is a pretty easy one to see.  Even...
Yahoo! (YHOO) moved close to its five-year low yesterday, trading down at $17.75. It really has not been so long ago that Microsoft (MSFT) made its $33 bid for the portal company. Yahoo!’s market...
There was some ray of hope that the second half of the year would be OK when the government revised GDP up 2.2% for the second quarter. A number of economists looked at the figures and said they...