The Motley Fool – The first Friday of every month brings the all-important employment report. February’s numbers were better than anticipated. The United States lost only 36,000 jobs, versus the 68,000 that experts expected. This compares with 651,000 jobs lost in February 2009. Still, the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7%, with the unofficial rate stuck around a whopping 16%.
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The Motley Fool – With the recent auction of Treasury’s Bank of America (NYSE: BAC – News) warrants, the big bank joins Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS – News), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS – News), and several other banks in completing its exit from TARP. But, is it a buy?
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The Motley Fool – Warren Buffett described Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK-A – News; NYSE:BRK-B – News) acquisition of Burlington National Railroad as a long-term bet on the American economy. In his book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, author Joel Kotkin presents data that supports Buffett’s thesis, arguing that despite its current economic woes, the U.S. will remain an economic powerhouse over the next four decades.
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The Motley Fool – Despite delivering better than expected results last week, Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI – News) has gone on to close lower in the two trading sessions since its robust report. It opened lower still this morning.
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The Motley Fool – Despite delivering better than expected results last week, Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI – News) has gone on to close lower in the two trading sessions since its robust report. It opened lower still this morning.
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The Motley Fool – Despite delivering better than expected results last week, Sirius XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI – News) has gone on to close lower in the two trading sessions since its robust report. It opened lower still this morning.
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The Motley Fool – The headline to this story practically writes itself, which makes it hard to pick just one. To sum up the latest celebrity financial foible, here are three other titles that didn’t quite make the cut:
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The Motley Fool – Like Santa and his elves, the Oracle of Omaha stayed busy during the fourth quarter of 2009. While Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK-A – News; NYSE: BRK-B – News) acquisition of Burlington Northern dwarfed other moves, the buying and selling of the world’s greatest investor is always worth investigating, and this past quarter was no exception. Aside from Burlington Northern, Buffett sold more stocks than he bought.
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The Motley Fool – There are some things in life where you really, really hope the first time is a charm — marriage, declaring a college major, and bungee-jumping, for example.
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