Warren Buffett

This weekend in Barron's online: the top 10 stock picks for 2014. Also, the prospects for Coach, U.S. airlines, gold miners and more. Cover Story "Not Done Yet" by Andrew Bary. Even though it has gotten tougher to find bargains in the stock market after the big run-up this year, there are...

It's not often that a Warren Buffett buy falls in price. But that is happening now with Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU).  That is one of three main reasons why investors should take advantage of the falling price of the Canadian major oil and natural gas firm. "The Oracle of Omaha" has been moving...

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett believes that Detroit is an essential part of the country. "The United States with a flourishing Detroit is going to be a lot better than the United States without one," Buffett told attendees at a press conference at...

Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), was in Detroit on Tuesday, along with Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) CEO Warren Buffett and several Michigan and Detroit-area politicians and businessmen. Blankfein and Buffett introduced the launch of Detroit's 10,000 Small Businesses, a $20...

For the better part of the last two decades, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have been battling it out for the title of the richest man in America, and possibly the world. Most of that time saw Bill Gates as the head of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), but he has since diversified into non-technology...

Publicly traded companies with share prices that move up and down more than the stock market as a whole have high betas. For the patient investor, that can result in unique opportunities to buy low when the share price fluctuates. If a dividend is paid, that increases the yield. There are many...

Stocks owned by legendary investor Warren Buffett are not generally associated with the word "dog." But his biggest holding, Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), and two others, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), are among the worst performing stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average this year. As...

ETF Outlook for Tuesday, November 19, 2013 iShares North American Tech-Software ETF (NYSE: IGV) The second largest holding of the ETF that makes up 9.1 percent of the portfolio reported earnings after the bell last night. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) reported EPS that were in line with...

By beating Wall Street estimates with its most recent quarterly results, Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has again demonstrated why it should be in the portfolio of every family office. A family office is an entity formed to invest for a designated family. Its goals are generally to beat the market...

In a low interest rate environment, there is a premium placed on high dividend stocks. Due to the market bias against small cap stocks, however, there are still many companies with high dividends and modest payout ratios. Three such publicly traded firms are Access National Corp (NASDAQ: ANCX...