Warren Buffett Once Spoke About 'The Only Thing' He Didn't Like About His Job: '…Occasionally I Have To Fire Somebody'
Warren Buffett, in a conversation that dates back decades, mentioned that the happiest part of running Berkshire Hathaway BRK BRK is that he “tap-dance[s] to work” every morning and rarely confronts the single task he despises, which is firing someone.
What Happened: Speaking to University of Washington business students during a joint Q&A with Microsoft’s MSFT Bill Gates in 1998,
3 Reasons to Buy This Beaten-Down Warren Buffett Stock
Apple (AAPL 0.55%) stock has taken a beating this year, with its shares down by 19% as of this writing. It might be tempting to attribute that performance to marketwide troubles, and that’s partly true. However, even as the Nasdaq Composite has recovered from being in bear market territory some weeks ago —
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Read MoreTrump administration and China agree on “framework” to ease trade war disputes
Senior U.S. and Chinese negotiators have agreed on a “framework” to move forward on trade talks after a series of disputes had threatened to derail them, representatives from both sides said.
The disputes — over visas, minerals and microchips — had shaken a fragile truce reached in Geneva last month to ease some of the massive tariffs that both countries had imposed on each other,
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Read MoreFEPI: A Concentrated Tech Income Play With Structural Weaknesses
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Read MoreDogs Of The S&P 500 Fetch 11 June 'Safer' Dividend Buys
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Fredrik Arnold is a retired quality service analyst sharing investment ideas with a primary focus on dividend yields by utilizing free cash flow and one-year total returns as trading indicators.
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Crazy Great Depression Stat Scares Investors
Some things only look crazy in hindsight. Did anyone in 1929 know they were on the cusp of The Great Depression? A tiny minority, at best. The rest, well, they all piled into stocks, and a just few of them too.
Fast forward almost a century and investors appear to be committing the same financial crime,
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The Max Pain Trade Is…
If one market analyst is to be believed, the path of the market that will lead to most pain will involve a move higher from the early August lows followed by a sharp correction in September and October, repeating a pattern not seen since 1998.
Back then July marked the high and October the low,
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Scintillating Growth Stock Scooped Up by Billionaire
Stanley Druckenmiller, net worth $6.4 billion, is widely considered one of the world’s best investors. His biggest claim to fame is the fact that in its 30 years of operation, Druckenmiller’s hedge fund Duquesne Capital never had a down year.
Druckenmiller closed his hedge fund after the global financial crisis and opened a smaller,
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