Buffett Bought Retail -- Should You?
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Warren Buffett and George Soros recently made headlines by betting on a retailer. Does that mean you should be looking at retail stocks?
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Is the Market Running Short of Parking Slots?
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A runaway rise in Gold and negative yields in US short-term treasuries offer one of the two conclusions: a rush for safety amongst investors or too much money chasing too few assets. For the first hypothesis to be true, the risky assets need to show a meaningful fall. Given steady to rising equities and commodity prices, love for risk hasn’t lost, despite the sliding trend of economic data from...
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Potash Gets a Soros-Led Boost
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Market Blog submits: By Simon Avery Shares of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan ( POT ) hit a five-month high and led the Toronto Stock Exchange to higher ground Tuesday, after the hedge fund of billionaire investor George Soros increased its stake in the company by nearly 50%. Complete Story »
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Closing Bell: Moving beyond cost cutting (XOM, HD, SPWRA, SMTL, AMAT, PLA)
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Filed under: Home Depot (HD) , Exxon Mobil (XOM) Stocks started out strong, but despite the lower producer inflation via PPI the markets were mixed and the net result was not certain until the very end of the day. Many of the Warren Buffett stocks and George Soros stocks were among the movers today. One issue affecting stocks ahead is that investors and traders alike are starting to figure out that...
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At Ford, Bulls Are Taking the Wheel
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
optionMONSTER submits: By Chris McKhann Ford ( F ) shares are up more than 2 percent to their highest level in more than two years, and option traders continue to be bullish a day after billionaire investor George Soros reported taking a large stake in the automaker. Complete Story »
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Soros Helps Boost Ford Shares
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Ford shares hit a two-year high after investor George Soros reported a new $53 million stake.
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Ford: Soros Takes $53M Stake
Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Ford (F) shares are climbing to a two-year high today after George Soros’s Soros Fund Management last night released a quarterly filing saying that the fund took a $53 million stake in the stock, roughly 7.3 million shares. Ford shares are up 10 cents, or 1%, to $8.81.
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George Soros Reveals Stake In Ford (F), Adds To Walmart (WMT), Cuts Position In Petrobras (PBR)
iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
It's that time of quarter - when the whales of investing have to reveal what they are doing on the long side to the SEC (they can still keep secret their shorts). There are a lot of websites that will be looking at these disclosures in the next 48 hours so we'll just focus on a few. When I did some "Googling" on George Soros last night I was taken aback how controversial a figure this guy...
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Rogers: In This Market, Commodities Rule
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
This week’s guru outlook brings you Jim Rogers. Rogers has become infamous in recent years for his prescient calls on the global meltdown and the commodity boom, but long before that he became famous for co-founding the Quantum Fund with George Soros. Rogers and Soros helped steer the fund to a miraculous 4,200% return over the 10 year span of the fund , while the S&P 500 returned just 47%....
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"The World Needs a New Financial Architecture"
Economist's View (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
George Soros says we need a new world order. After talking about the need for a new Bretton Woods conference to "establish new international rules, including treatment of financial institutions that are too big to fail and the role of...
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In support of case teaching
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Additional funding from George Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire philanthropist, will support "further crucial development for the next five years" for young...
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Hey Soros, The Commercial Real Estate "Bloodletting" Began A Long Time Ago
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I’m in need of some desperate catching up. There was a bunch of big headlines about the commercial real estate crash. The latest to talk about the impending doom in commercial real estate were Wilbur Ross who sees a “huge crash in commercial real estate coming” and George Soros , who talked of a “bloodletting yet to come.” As Square Feet blog pointed out : “In commercial...
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Wilbur Ross Sees ‘Huge’ Commercial Real Estate Crash (AGO)
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Mr. Ross is one of the very, very sharpest operators in the market. Distressed debt and related areas are so fraught with ways to lose money that anyone who can even survive is smarter than the average bear. To make the kind of money in the field that Mr. Ross has made is proof positive of a deep understanding of the biz. We titled one of our posts " A Guy Who Might be Smarter then Warren Buffett...
- Soros, Ross: Commercial Real-Estate Crash Is Coming And It's Going To Be Terrific - The Business Insider
- Wilbur Ross Sees ‘Huge’ Commercial Real Estate Crash - The Cynical Economist
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'China Up / U.S. Down' Theme Checkup
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Richard Shaw ( QVM Group ) submits: One big investment risk is subscribing to a popular mantra with your life’s savings, without continuously checking the data — the facts — to make sure the mantra continues to make sense. The “China up” and “U.S. down” theme is a major current mantra. There are plenty of very bright, well informed, high profile people espousing...
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George Soros Unveils New Blueprint for World Financial System
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
CEU Convenes Global Conversation with Opinion Makers