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I have been dead wrong: Buffett

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... year, we made purchases totaling $14.5 billion in fixed-income securities issued by Wrigley, Goldman Sachs and General Electric. We very much like these commitments, which carry high current yields that, in themselves, make the investments more than ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... cent, to 3296.9. NEW YORK - Wall Street ended another unforgiving month with a steep loss as Citigroup Inc and General Electric Co both unsettled investors. Citigroup plans to turn over a big piece of itself to the government, a move that fanned worries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... broader All Ordinaries index was 145.6 points, or 4.02 per cent, lower at 3,473.4. NEW YORK - US stocks rose after General Electric Co announced plans to maintain its dividend and the Federal Reserve extended terms of three emergency loan programs. In ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... per cent, to $35.88. Takeover target Rio Tinto announced it had formed separate alliances with Atlas Copco and General Electric to develop autonomous drilling and energy efficient mining solutions.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... 108 points lower at 5366. ABN Amro Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said an especially poor result by General Electric Co on Friday had unnerved Wall Street. Mr Bishop said GE was regarded as "bellwether" company and its results would be seen ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... Ordinaries lost 10.3 points to 5,505.2. NEW YORK - US stocks slumped on Friday after surprisingly weak earnings from General Electric Co and data showing consumer sentiment at a 26-year low fed fears the economy is in recession. Shares of GE, viewed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... showed factory activity in November fell to its lowest since January, driving down shares of such bellwethers as General Electric. Financial shares fell after Deutsche Bank cut its profit estimates through 2008 on the nation's top five investment banks ...

Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... A$60 billion in G7 sovereign bonds while state-owned enterprises are buying stakes in companies as diverse as General Electric Plastics, HSBC bank and Malaysia's Maxis telecommunications group. This may only be the tip of the iceberg, to mix metaphors ...

Building BRICs

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
... trillion (A$1.1 trillion) dollars will be spent on infrastructure in the emerging markets in the next three years. General Electric estimates a US$3 trillion (A$3.34 trillion) dollar investment over the next ten years. It is expected that around 70 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... YORK - The S&P 500 index climbed to a record on Friday, surpassing levels reached during the Internet bubble, as General Electric Co increased a stock-buyback plan and data showed improving consumer sentiment. The Standard & Poor's 500 milestone came ...