Warren Buffett

By Don McNay He could also put his money in the stock market and make big gains.  Or lose his shirt.   Investing in the stock market can be like going to the race track.  There are going to be winners and there are going to be losers.  People should understand that any investment involves risk.  

By Nancy Tilghman 8 In a huge vote of confidence in its own stock, Goldman Sachs uses some of the $11 billion that it has set aside for bonuses so far this year to buy back the $5 billion dollars Buffett lent it last fall, freeing the firm from a hefty 10 percent dividend on Buffett's perpetual preferred shares.

By Michael Martin Maybe you believe that everybody on Wall Street are barren robbers...that the stock market is legalized gambling...that all mortgage brokers and real estate agents are unethical. Covel argues that does not give you a hall pass to leave your money unattended. You are responsible for the results...

 NY It is well known how Warren Buffett invests in the stock market with a 'business perspective'. His mentor, Benjamin Graham once said that investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike, a philosophy Buffett has said is at the core of all ...

 UK A few weeks before, during which the same stock jumped by 130% in a month, you were an investing genius, the next Warren Buffett. The stock market hates uncertainty so much that it makes share prices go down. Lower prices are a good thing for buyers of ...

 NY As Warren Buffett recently said, 'be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.' The collapse in Francoeur's market value rivals that of any bank or automotive company. But while the stock market is nowhere near its peak ...

Back in 1999, Warren Buffett gave a series of speeches about the future of the stock market. He pointed out that on Dec. 31, 1964, the Dow was at 874. Seventeen years later, on Dec. 31, 1981, the Dow was at 875. Buffett said, "Now I'm known as a ...

 NY Warren Buffett is a fan of keeping it simple in his investment analysis. This chart, which plots the total market cap of the stock market as a percentage of GNP is one of his favorites. As you can see, the measure made two sharp peaks in 1999 and then ...

  Canada - Ken Gray Mega-investor Warren Buffett, in a recent PBS-TV interview, said it will take an upturn in the stock market to make consumers feel confident again. That confidence will spur consumption which, in turn, will create jobs, which will boost confidence ...

 NY But this still doesn't make it a Ponzi scheme. And it's for this reason that investors like Warren Buffett advocate buying stocks that you'd be happy owning even if the stock market just closed down for several years. But, honestly, trying to refute ...

By Jonathan Berr Writing in the New York Times, Buffett said he is buying American stocks. "Let me be clear on one point: I can't predict the short-term movements of the stock market. I haven't the faintest idea as to whether stocks will be higher or lower a month - or a year - from now., " he writes. "What is likely,...

By Sheldon Liber The question is whether investors are better off buying into a few broadly held index funds or better off holding a few dividend paying large cap stocks? I am a firm believer in keeping at least half of the money you save, invested in the stock market, placed in indexed mutual funds, or excha...