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April 11, 2012
I wanted to highlight a few key points but honestly I think I’d be doing you a disservice as the whole thing was wonderful.  He add really interesting color on Apple (AAPL), Pepsi (PEP), and normalized profit margins.  Yacktman is one of my favorite fund managers and is somebody that I pay close attention to....
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As we’ve stated before Chinese infrastructure spending has likely gone too far, too fast, and has provided a tremendous boost to many commodity businesses.  The most susceptible to a slowdown in China are mining companies that have created the materials for the heavy-industry infrastructure.  When you combine the inflated prices that this demand has caused...
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This article shortly and succinctly outlines the problems that some of these European countries are having in establishing a competitive economy.  Ridiculous labor laws that stifle business are devastating particularly in such a globalized economic environment where lower labor costs can allow a competitor to “eat the lunch” of the higher cost business.  These types...
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Chesapeake Energy (CHK) is blessed with wonderful assets and a management team that has regularly been leading innovators in the energy space as far as predicting trends and technological developments.  The problem with the company is that they are run like an aggressive “wildcat” firm as opposed to multi-billion dollar behemoth.  Balance sheet issues such...
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Alfredo Saenz is exactly right that the ECB needs to get in front of the issue and buy Spanish debt as yields climb.  As stated before this won’t solve the structural problems but neither will delaying the issue.  Policymakers have continuously waited for the market to force them to make a move instead of taking...
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This article outlines the fact that U.S. banks earnings might be down slightly from the first quarter of 2011.  While this may be true is should be a pretty strong quarter overall and it should augur for further growth for the large banks.  Costs are still elevated from the mortgage problems and net interest margins...
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Mortgage servicing problems and mortgage fraud have had a dramatic change in the industry.  The automated machinery to approve as many loans as possible on the basis that the collateral will keep the issuers protected is over after the huge declines that we have seen in housing prices.  While changes had to be made in...
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This article does a great job in outlining the importance of patents in the current environment in the tech sector. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335551794808074.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories INVESTING IN THE FINANCIAL MARKETS INVOLVES RISKS. OPTIONS ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL INVESTORS.
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With Best Buy struggling as a transformational shift from big box retail, to online distribution, more bad news occurred today with the announcement that the CEO is stepping down due to an internal probe.  Best Buy is a company that had a great model which is just becoming outdated due to the changing landscape so...
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It’s good to see AIG getting back into Real Estate while collateral values are still low.  This is a company that has a huge amount of float that they need to invest so they must remain disciplined and diversified.  Before their CEO Robert Benmosche took over AIG was winding down everything under pressure from the...
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