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• Investors find silver lining in GDP

  Posted May 29 2009, 12:40 PM by Minyanville
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  Filed under: Technology, Union Pacific, Todd Harrison
  Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money

  The big economic piece for Friday was U.S. gross domestic product. The Financial Times reports the U.S. economy continued to contract in the first quarter of 2009, yet improvements in specific categories did boost investor sentiment.

  Preliminary estimates by the Bureau of Economic Analysis released Friday suggested that the nation’s GDP fell at an annualized rate of 5.7% in the first quarter. Although this was more than expectations of a 5.5% decline, it was still better than the previous month’s estimate of a 6.1% drop and far better than the fourth quarter where GDP fell at a 6.3% rate, the sharpest since 1982.

  Notable improvements were in corporate profits, which rose 3.4% to $1.3 trillion. This follows a 16.5% decline in the fourth quarter. The improvement was mainly due to the financial sector, where income surged 95% as banks cut costs by laying off workers and were able to borrow from the government at very low rates.   Read More...

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• A look at Warren Buffett's stock holdings -- all of them

  Posted Jun 02 2008, 06:37 AM by Douglas McIntyre
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  Filed under: Wal-Mart, Berkshire Hathaway, Wells Fargo, Staples, Washington Post, United Parcel Service, Union Pacific
  Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money

  Did you ever wonder which stocks Warren Buffett holds in Berkshire Hathaway? Here's a snapshot of his various holdings, broken down alphabetically, as of the reporting cut off date of March 31, 2008. 

  Some have multiple positions because of various entities that are held.  Here goes:    Read More...

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