3 Stocks Warren Buffett Would Love
These companies could be attractive acquisition candidates for Berkshire Hathaway. Buy their stocks now and beat the master to the punch.
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Raging Bulls
How Wall Street got addicted to trading at the speed of light.
| Wired | Sep 2012
Fascinating read. A sample:
Faster and faster turn the wheels of finance, increasing the risk that they will spin out of control, that a perturbation somewhere in the system will scale up to a global crisis in a matter of seconds. “For the first time in financial history, machines can execute trades far faster than humans can intervene,” said Andrew Haldane, a regulatory official with the Bank of England, at another recent conference. “That gap is set to widen.”
More on Wired.
Happy birthday, Warren Buffett!
To celebrate: 82 reasons to love everybody’s favorite billionaire investor, courtesy the Motley Fool.
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Which Congressmen have owned stock in strip clubs, cigarette makers and liquor companies?
… another installment in our series looking at the personal finances of politicians.
In an average calendar year, you can expect stocks to tumble 13.5%.
So don’t panic when the markets look messy. In the words of Kip columnist Steve Goldberg, “to reap the long-term profits that the stock market has historically produced, investors must be able to tolerate the volatility that comes with those gains.”
Five predictions for the global economy, from two people who really know this stuff.
Top bond-fund managers are some of the most reliable forecasters when it comes to predicting stocks and bonds. Per Kathleen Gaffney and Michael Hasenstab, who rank among the best:
- The euro zone will emerge from its crisis stronger than ever.
- Emerging markets will struggle.
- … but U.S. stocks look really good!
- Junk bonds should prove solid, despite the added risk.
- The U.S. could face a serious fiscal crisis.
This is not a tech bubble.
… and other lessons from Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
