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SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – Warren Buffett is finally spending some of Berkshire Hathaway’s cash hoard. And he’s buying a railroad company. As the greatest investor of our generation, does his latest acquisition signal a market bottom?

Dissecting the Deal

Buffett’s firm, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A – News), agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. (NYSE: BNI – News) for $100 a share valuing the deal at $44 billion.

Over the past year, Burlington’s stock price has lagged the performance of its peer benchmark, the Dow Jones Transportation Average (NYSEArca: IYT – News). Read more…

If you’re like most Americans, you don’t have a secret bank account in Switzerland where you stash money to keep it out of IRS hands.

Being out of the foreign tax-shelter loop isn’t such a bad thing. Uncle Sam recently signed a new tax treaty with that Alpine nation that should help U.S. collectors crack down on tax-evading owners of a foreign bank accounts.

But there still are plenty of  legal tax havens for law-abiding taxpayers. Even better, most regular Joe and Jane taxpayers can easily take advantage of them. Read more…

Watch this interesting view points of Peter Peterson on National Debts; former chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group and the author of ”The Education of an American Dreamer.” He pointed out how America got into such a big mess and he is trying to make a difference in setting up a foundation to help up the issue.

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Why Trade in Currencies?
There are 10 major reasons why the currency market is a great place to trade:

1. You can trade to any style – strategies can be built on five-minute charts, hourly charts ,daily charts or even weekly charts.
2. There is a massive amount of information – charts, real-time news, top level research – all available for free.
3. All key information is public and disseminated instantly.
4. You can collect interest on trades on a daily or even hourly basis.
5. Lot sizes can be customized, meaning that you can trade with as little as $500 dollars at nearly the same execution costs as accounts that trade $500 million.
6. Customizable leverage allows you to be as conservative or as aggressive as you like (cash on cash or 100:1 margin).
7. No commission means that every win or loss is cleanly accounted for in the P&L.
8. You can trade 24 hours a day with ample liquidity ($20 million up)
9. There is no discrimination between going short or long (no uptick rule).
10. You can’t lose more capital than you put in (automatic margin call) Read more…

Tan Sri Robert Kuok Hock Nien (born 6 October 1923, in Johor Bahru, Johor),
is an influential Malaysian Chinese businessman. According to Forbes his
net worth is estimated to be around $10 billion on May 2008, making him the
richest person in Southeast Asia.

Robert Kuok Hock Nien’s notes on the past sixty years
(On the occasion of Kuok Group’s 60th Anniversary 10 April 2009)

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Some investors rely purely on mathematics when deciding which stocks to buy or investments to make. But many investors make those decisions relying to a considerable degree on imagination and faith, too.

These “story” investors envision a future path for the world, sometimes improbable, build a case for it, and then think, “How can I make money on that?”

Here are five such broad scenarios that many investors are considering today, at a moment when the economy and financial markets seem to be at a key transition point, from recession to uncertain recovery.

Some of these scenarios are in competition with each other, but all have their adherents, and all present opportunities.  Read more…

The Great Economic Recovery Hunt has been underway for about half a year, and the quarry bag is still pretty empty. A few optimists have tried to wring hope from fuzzy statistics showing that retail sales or housing starts or some other indicator aren’t as bad as they could be. But with the unemployement rate at 9.5 percent and going higher, that’s been unconvincing.

A recovery that will actually feel like one is probably a year away, at best. But we may finally be seeing signs that some parts of the economy are turning the corner. Here are six:

Booming bank profits. Goldman Sachs earned a scorching $3.3 billion in the second quarter. JP Morgan Chase earned $2.7 billion. Citigroup and Bank of American reported less impressive numbers, but each still turned a profit despite mounting losses on consumer loans. To be clear, the banks’ profits have been subsidized by the government’s TARP program and a bunch of other emergency measures meant to provide very cheap capital to the banks. And it’s obviously problematic that a few Wall Street banks are earning a fortune with taxpayer assistance. But the whole financial bailout was intended, first of all, to get the nation’s financial system back on its feet. One toe at a time, it’s happening. The real test is whether a healthier financial system will help the broader economy recover–or bankers just gorge on the profits, keeping loans as tight as ever. Read more…