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Today’s Best Market Rumors (7/1/2010)

Updated throughout the day. Robert Benmosche, CEO of American International Group (NYSE: AIG) threatened to resign, again.

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Media Digest 5/7/2010

Reuters:   Stocks fell in Asia and Europe as the pound and euro fell. Reuters:   The GOP’s attempt to kill a consumer watchdog program was not successful.

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Today’s Best Market Rumors (4/20/2010)

Updated throughout the day. American International Group (NYSE: AIG) may sue Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) over $2 billion in losses on insured derivatives.

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P&G Joins DJIA Dividend Hike Brigade (PG, KO, MMM, INTC, GE, JPM, CSCO)

2010 may be the year of many things, but it is so far becoming the year of dividend hikes.  The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) has just joined the dividend hike brigade with its announcement last night.  The consumer products giant is raising its quarterly dividend from $0.44 to $0.4818 per common share, which [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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CEO Compensation Becomes Incomprehensible

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal each published their list of the compensation packages of the CEOs of the 200 largest companies, although each defined this group differently.  Some of the disparity came from the fiscal years that each list covered. More troubling, other discrepancies had to do with different interpretations of [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway 2010 Stock Holdings R to Z (BRK-B, BRK-A, PG, RSG, SNY, STI, TIF, TMK, TRV, USB, USG, UNH, UPS, WMT, WPO, WFC, WLP, WSC, UNP)

This is the list of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(BRK-B) public equity holdings as of December 31, 2009…. so these are his positions going into 2010.  We have broken these into 3 groups for ease and these are the holdings listed in the group of ‘R to Z.’ Republic Services Inc

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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway 2010 Stock Holdings G to P (BRK-B, GCI, GE, GS, GSK, HOG, HD, IR, IRM, JNJ, KFT, LOW, MCO, NLC, NKE, PG, NSC, NRG)

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has just filed its year-end holdings for 2009, so these are Warren Buffett’s most recent holdings going into 2010.  We have already seen some holdings get trimmed even since that cut-off date.  We broke these holdings out into 3 groups of ‘A to F’ and ‘G to [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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NFIB: Small Business Owners Report "shortage of customers"

From Reuters: Dark clouds hang over U.S. small businesses: survey The outlook of small business owners remained bleak at the start of the new year, according to a survey released on Tuesday by the National Federation of Independent Business.

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Bankruptcy Comes to Mesa Air (MESA)

Mesa Air Group Inc. (NASDAQ: MESA) has been a trouble airline and a troubled stock for quite some time.  That is taking a turn for the worse for common shareholders this morning.  Mesa has filed a plan of reorganization in a release titled “Mesa Air Group Commences Restructuring” this morning.  Unfortunately, that is a Chapter [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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FOMC: Very Little Optimism, Very Little Action

Federal Open Market Committee notes said that economic activity has picked up since the group’s September meeting, but certainly not enough for the Fed to do anything about it. The FOMC said it will maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent, and will purchase a total of $1.25 trillion of [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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