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What Warren Buffett Is Buying Right Now

As shares of Berhshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) plunged over the past year, it became fashionable to ask whether or not Warren Buffett had lost his touch.

(See: ETF Guide: Down $16 Billion – Has Warren Buffett Lost His Touch?; MSN Money: The problem with Warren Buffett; Forbes: Has Buffett Lost His Touch; Reuters: Is Warren Buffett losing his touch?)

In June, financial advisor and CNBC contributor Dennis Gartman even called Buffett “an idiot.”

But now that Berkshire has rallied more than 35% from its March lows, the only idiots to be found are those that ever doubted the world’s second-richest man’s business savvy. Indeed, many…

19Aug2009 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Berkshire Looking to Bounce Following S&P Downgrade

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A, BRK.B) could lose its "AAA" credit rating from Standard & Poor’s Inc. after the ratings agency lowered its outlook on the company to "negative" from "stable."

But it’s unlikely the change has anything to do with the fundamental health of the company. Pundits were quick to point out that the rating was more about the current economic upheaval, than it was Berkshire itself.

"Pretty much any company in the world has to have a negative outlook at this point.  It’s a reflection of the economy more than it is something that’s happening at Berkshire Hathaway,” American University…

27Mar2009 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Warren Buffett’s great stock market timing move

Nothing strange about the 2008 bear

There have been a lot of comments in the media and among investors all year about how strange the stock market has been acting this year. 

I don’t agree. Except for the wild day-to-day volatility (after the SEC allowed the abolishment of the up-tick rule on short-selling last year) the market has been acting quite normally. 

It handled the turmoil created by the collapse of the housing bubble and the onslaught of the sub-prime mortgage mess last year quite well, reaching a new bull market high in October of last year. 

Always looking ahead six to nine months,…

18Nov2008 | Street Smart Report | Comments Off | Continued
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