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Highlights From Warren Buffett Interview on CNBC

On the eve of a charity lunch tomorrow that someone will likely pay $2 million to attend, Warren Buffett did a short interview with Becky Quick over on CNBC (see video & summary here). As always, Buffett threw out some great soundbites and displayed his folksy wit (as folksy as guy worth over $40 billion [...]

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Cold Morning for Stocks; 4 charts I Can’t Believe (FCX, BTU, AA, GS)

The opening this morning was destined to be poor given the jump in jobless claims, but there are several stocks in particular that have gone cliff-diving in a way I can’t truly comprehend.
First let’s look at Freeport-McMoRan, which is down about 11% this morning. Yes, copper continues to trade down this morning (currently about 4% [...]

Brain Purge: Good Links For November 13

Given the retreat of major stock indexes back to year lows and below, I found myself needing a dose of international news and commentary. I needed to stretch out my gray matter and soak in news from around the world, because there are obviously still tail risks being represented in global equity prices.
FT’s Alphaville blog [...]

Goldman May Report First-Ever Loss in 4th Qtr (GS)

As reported by Reuters, analyst at UBS is calling for Goldman Sachs to report its first ever loss as a public company in the 4th quarter, expecting lower revenues than the current consensus of $6.3 billion. The analyst notes continued weakness in global M&A, new equity issuance, and other investment banking activity. These trends are [...]

Weekly Check Under the Hood - Performance & Musings

All in all, it was another vertigo-inspiring week of ups and downs in the global markets. More of the same for me - smatterings of sleep while various sets of numbers fight for the limited real estate left in my brainpad. On the plus side, I did register the modest achievement of memorizing the names [...]