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Brenda O'Farrell

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Last week’s stock market rally had a few anomalies that investors should cast a wary eye on. The main oddity saw investors pull billions of dollars out of two of the biggest U.S.-traded equity...
In the past week, legendary investor Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKa), submitted its first-quarter filing with the Security Exchange Commission, which showed the changes...
What You Might Have Missed: Eggs, Chicken and Apple
By Brenda O'Farrell - Nov 12, 202211
A lot happened in the markets this past week. And perhaps the best analogy to explain it all rests with one obscure development in the broader world of economics: The price of eggs jumped, while the...
Last August, a little section of U.S. President Joe Biden’s much-touted Inflation Reduction Act caught the attention of investors. It introduced a 1% tax on stock buybacks.Most companies and...
A heavy earnings week is always a busy time for the markets, but is “busy” really the word to describe the past week?First, Let’s Talk About TwitterWell, the question was finally...
Is it a trend? A sign of the times? Or both?What I am referring to are share buybacks. Talk on Wall Street this week included a whole lot of conversations about share buybacks. They are a great way to...
If there was an over-arching theme that encapsulated the events related to the markets this week, it was there was no middle of the road. Examples of extremes – as in, the biggest, quickest,...
Was it a rally? Or, just volatility? That is the kind of week it has been.But there were a few interesting developments for market watchers to keep their sense of humor amidst the swings. First up was...
Well, let’s just take a moment today and say one final goodbye to September. Here’s your hat, and there’s the door.The past month saw stocks on a downward tear the likes of which...
Actions and reactions. That is one way to sum up the week that was in the markets, as events – both big and small – reverberated through Wall Street and beyond.First, yesterday’s...