Posted on 09/23/2008 6:13:49 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Berkshire Hathaway, the company owned by US investment guru Warren Buffett, has bought $5bn (£2.7bn) worth of Goldman Sachs shares.
Mr Buffett, the world's most famous investor, said Goldman was an "exceptional institution".
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Wonder what they are buying......
In my opinion, this is not a bad short term move. However, I think the investment banking landscape has been significantly changed to the point where they’re just not going to be as profitable anymore. The current $135 share price might see a nice bump over the next year or two, but I’d guess this stock goes stagnant after that. Unless, of course, Goldman gets some balls and maybe buys a nice retail bank...
I thought there was a money crisis, and everyone was frozen.
cumulative preferred.
He gets 10% preferred return probably with an option to convert to common
Goldman is a survivor.
What's he got a John Corzine for President bumper sticker on his car? /sarcsasm
...The supremacy of finance capital over all other forms of capital means the predominance of the rentier and of the financial oligarchy; it means that a small number of financially “powerful” states stand out among all the rest. The extent to which this process is going on may be judged from the statistics on emissions, i.e., the issue of all kinds of securities. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Warren knows that Henry will be good to Henry’s friends.
Because of Buffett, I wouldn’t buy Gieco Insurance. I wish people would boycott folks like him.
FWIW: Warren’s father Howard was the Ron Paul of his time back when he was a GOP congressman in thee 50s.
Haven't you heard? They already got our beloved Federal Government to make Goldman Sachs a regular ol retail bank already!!!
Cash and stock.....They are a bank now. They need a national outlet setup, and a failing bank is perfect.
Well Mr. galt, that is how it works.....
GS has two ways of creating a National presence in banking. They can build or buy. I'm bettin on a buy and Wachovia and WaMu come to mind.
While I'm not a fan of theirs, I have recently bought GS myself. Seems like its undervalued because they got lumped in with other financial stocks that had a lot of housing market exposure, while they don't and the market was a bit slow to realize it.
Specifically, I'm going for a bunch of day trading long positions on the dips--being that I expect it to eventually bounce its way back up to 180 or so making me bucks along the way.
I'm in at around 121 trying to sell around 126 or more tomorrow morning...wish me luck.
Looking forward to the FBI’s investigation.
Don’t get me wrong, unlike Lenin, I have never confused capitalism with criminality/socialism...
...just sayin’ his quote is very interesting in the context of what is going on today.
Goldman does not have the ability to buy those institutions. Goldman’s market cap is less than half of Wells Fargo for instance. Don’t be surprised if Wells makes an offer for them over the next 12 months if the stock price doesn’t go anywhere given the fact Berkshire owns about 10% of WFC.
Buffett can’t lose too easily for this. The terms I believe are 10% yield plus convertible at $115 per share, below the market price. I’d love to lend them on those terms.
FWIW: Warren’s father Howard was the Ron Paul of his time back when he was a GOP congressman in thee 50s.
Thanks. I didn’t know that.
I believe Lenin studied democracies as one would study the enemy battle space. He was a expert in the field. Professor Lenin.
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