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Doug Kass To Throw a Few 'Curveballs' At Warren Buffett

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:29:18 EDT

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Berkshire Hathaway bear Doug Kass will be facing off with the legendary Warren Buffett at the company's annual shareholder meeting this weekend, and says he has come up with some "spicy research" on the Oracle of Omaha and his celebrated company.

Kass, President of Seabreeze Partners Management and long-time Real Money Pro contributor, won the rare opportunity to attend the famous shareholder meeting as a "credentialed bear" on the stock and will be allowed to pose six questions to the Wizard of Omaha and his partner Charlie Munger.

Appearing on CNBC's Squawk Box on Friday morning, Kass told anchor Becky Quick that he was "very excited" about attending the meeting, though he confessed he was a little overwhelmed. ...

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Don't Let Your Distrust Cost You Money

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:00:00 EST

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- I'm a business journalist.

If you want my credentials, I'm a graduate of the "Mama Yama School of Business." The late Elizabeth Yamashita taught the business reporting course in 1978 when I was at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. She said we'd all get jobs. She was right.

A journalist's job is to ask tough questions, and not take the answers at face value. Cynicism is called for, H.L. Mencken) is our patron saint,and the fact that Mencken is mainly forgotten today speaks well for him. We live in the moment. We're aware of our mortality. ...

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Apple's Stock to Fall 50% and Other 'Outrageous Predictions' for 2012

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:30:53 EST

Peter Brandt's bullish view on wheat prices added to this update.

BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Apple's stock price cut in half? A dark-horse candidate elected as U.S. president? A booming Australia suddenly falling into a recession?

As unlikely as those events may be, they're among the 10 most "Outrageous Predictions" for 2012 made by Europe's Saxo Bank. ...

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Stocks Drop 1% on S&P's U.S. Outlook

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:26:54 EDT

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Stocks shed more than 1% Monday after Standard & Poor's lowered its ratings outlook for the U.S. to negative from stable.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 140 points, or 1.1%, to close at 12,201 after dropping by more than 2% earlier in the session to a low of 12,093. The S&P 500 finished lower by 14 points, or 1.1%, to close at 1,305, and the Nasdaq declined by 29 points, or 1.1%, at 2,735.

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Eyeing the Bond Markets

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:00:00 EST

Stocks can't ignore the U.S. or European bond markets for much longer.

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Complacency Rules

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:00:00 EST

The statistics scream the market is too bullish. But I don't see the giddiness; I think it's more complacency.

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More 'Off the Charts' Sentiment

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:00:00 EST

What does the International Securities Exchange's call/put ratio reading of over 200% mean for this market?

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New Realities

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:15:00 EDT

China, with its enormous financial clout, wants its voice heard louder on the world stage.

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China Roars

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:46:19 EDT

It wasn't supposed to happen so the big increase in China's exports and imports is huge news.

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The CANDIES Rally Litmus Test

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:06:09 EDT

These seven market-leading stocks tell me whether the bounce is for real.

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Confidence Builds as Euro Ends Free Fall

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:22:22 EDT

An end to the euro's rapid descent is being cheered by the market.

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Altisource Is Still a Favorite

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:29:00 EDT

Three Big Risks

Fri, 21 May 2010 06:16:02 EDT

Corporate risk is low, but government and mechanical risks make for a dicey investing environment.

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Europe Rolls Out the Very Big Guns

Mon, 10 May 2010 14:18:39 EDT

This column by Jim Cramer originally appeared on RealMoney earlier today.

They went nuclear. They went nuclear against the euro opponents, against those leaning against Greece and Spain and Portugal. No more conventional arms. Nearly $1 trillion of firepower designed to do one thing: end it, end it all. A truly impressive show. It's one of the most amazing displays of force I have ever seen in the marketplace.

Why did the European Union do this? Why did the IMF do this? Why did the heads of the major European governments do this? ...

Europe Rolls Out the Very Big Guns

Mon, 10 May 2010 05:37:17 EDT

Europe's intervention to curb the debt crisis is an amazing display of force.

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