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Warren Watch: Tracking Berkshire stock trends over the long term
The last time Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s stock price took a sharp tumble, in March 2000, it took five years and five months to get back to its previous high.
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Whitney Says Goldman Sachs Lost `Tremendous' Talent to Hedge-Fund Startups
Meredith Whitney , the analyst who cut her rating on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. last month, said the bank has lost some of its top-performing employees as executives left to start their own investment companies.
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Goldman's '10,000 Small Businesses' Plan a Hit
Close NOVEMBER 19, 2009 By MIKE SPECTOR When Jay Richardson heard that Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Course correction: NetJets still has plans to grow in Columbus, new...
Nov. 22--David Sokol has had to make painful decisions in his first three months as chief executive of NetJets, the Columbus-based company owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
Aetna, Allstate, Ensco are ripe for takeovers
Warren Buffett's takeover of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. illustrates an emerging trend: Takeovers are back.
Buffett: All Cars Will Be Electric in 20 Years
Warren Buffett met with students from Rice Universitya TMs graduate school of business yesterday.
Q Do any mutual funds mirror Berkshire Hathaway's investment style? - D.G., online A Be careful.
Geithner Says Small Business Loans Key to `Self-Sustaining' U.S. Recovery
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged U.S. banks to boost lending to small businesses and consumers who still face a oevery challenginga credit conditions and rising unemployment.
CSX shares slip in premarket on downgrade
Shares of CSX Corp. edged down in premarket trading Friday as an analyst downgraded the railroad, saying its share price has moved too high.
If you think that FPL is a good stock to own down the road, get paid while you wait to own it.
When it comes to riding out the Great Recession, we're No. 1. Forbes on Thursday put Omaha-Council Bluffs at the top of its list of the nation's fastest-recovering major metropolitan areas.
More than most, the PR department at Goldman Sachs must be looking forward to the weekend: It just spent the last few days getting pummeled like Apollo Creed .
Goldman Sachs Launches 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative
November 17, 2009 - " The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. today announced the launch of 10,000 Small Businesses -- a $500 million initiative that will unlock the growth and job-creation potential of 10,000 small businesses across the United States through greater access to business education, mentors and networks, and financial capital.
Warren Buffett's flip-flop could bring new investors to Berkshire and more volume to its shares.
Report: Hershey may launch bid for Cadbury
Hershey Co. may make a $17 billion bid for UK candy company Cadbury PLC, topping the recent $16.5 billion hostile offer by Kraft Foods Inc., the Wall Street Journal reports Friday.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thomas Oliver: No recovery without small business
You know things are awful when Washington politicians seem genuinely concerned about small business, rather than simply spouting the usual platitudes toward an amorphous group that typically lacks the political muscle of Wall Street or unions.
Berkshire Adds Exxon and Nestle; Increased Positions in Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo; Reduces ...
Berkshire Hathaway has released a new 13-F filing today which reveals the composition of the companya TMs equity portfolio as of September 30, 2009.
Big talent drain at Goldman says Whitney; Small businesses dialing...
Geithner: 'The credit crunch is not over' Thain self be true Obama says government won't try to help run GM, Chrysler Chrysler May Drop 145 Dealers on Lack of Financing JPMorgan Buys Rest of Cazenove for 1 Billion Pounds Gold Demand Rises 10% on Investment, Jewelry, Gold Council Says Whitney Says Goldman Sachs Lost - Tremendous' Talent - Bloomberg ...
Goldman's $500 million is late, short
So now we know the value Goldman Sachs Group Inc. places on salving its conscience for screwing up what Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein called ''God's work.'' It seems that $500 million is all it takes to compensate the world for Goldman's role in creating the credit crunch.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...
BNSF buy may alter key regulatory formula
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The planned purchase of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway could cause a change in how the Surface Transportation Board calculates a key cost formula that helps it shape some rail freight rates.
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