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Filed under: Forecasts, Other issues, Good news, Rants and raves, General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Money and Finance Today, DJIA, Stocks to Buy, Recession

My colleague (sort of) James Cramer has suddenly turned into a giant, growling bear. He has been moving in that direction for a few months and now he thinks we all should go into hibernation for five years. He is so wrong!

First of all, it is never a good idea to make decisions while you are in panic mode. Second, Jim's guidance is moving with the market so he is not making any serious prognostication, ju

Filed under: Rants and raves, General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Stocks to Buy, Southern Company (SO)

There is a lot of bad news affecting the stock market and prices are falling for some very important reasons. These include reduced expectations for earnings, higher unemployment, a lack of liquidity, a housing market that has not bottomed yet, federal spending gone wild, and the collapse of some venerable financial institutions to name a select few.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index: started the year (Dec 28, 2007) at 1,478.49 and as of

Filed under: General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Bargain stocks, Chasing Value, Stocks to Buy

Hey Big Nose Kate here.

How about that GE, what a beating it has taken. People are looking around and asking how low can we go, I don't know but the yeild should help GE from going much lower. The fundamentals are OK. I think people are a little more nervous,and maybe we should be but don't be foolish and give this stock away at this price. This is a buying time not a crying time. If GE delivers what it has promised this quarter we are going to have a nice return on our money by years end.

Summary: General Electric (GE) appears to be a good buy—for both price and dividend growth—at its current price of around $28.

Type of Company and Stock: GE is a conglomerate, and its participation in several very different industries makes it almost impossible to categorize into my usual Type A, B, or D classifications. If I had to pick, I'd call it an A-B company. Morningstar places GE in its Large Value style box, describes its industry as Diversified Industrial Materials, and its type as Classic Growth. As we will see, these categories do not begin to truly describe GE's breadth.

Filed under: General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), China, Diageo plc (DEO), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Merck and Co (MRK), Huaneng Power Intl ADS (HNP), Serious Money, Stocks to Buy

The following two-part article puts forth ten stock ideas that I believe would be better off in your investment portfolio than one comprised primarily of Certificates of Deposits (CDs) or bonds, or even government treasuries. This is not to say that these do not have value or offer some level of security, but they are long term losers.

A basket of high yielding-high quality stocks can offer a higher return

Earlier this week we looked at my top 5 high fliers for 2008. Unfortunately, for every up, there is a down and that is certainly true for my portfolio. As before, we will look at results through July 31, 2008. Here they are my cellar dwellers with comments:

#5 - General Electric (GE) -19.3% Total 2008 Return
Of my cellar dwellers, GE is the one I am most bullish on. I liked it at $38 when I bought my first tranche in July/2007, and liked it even more at $29 when I bought my last tranche this month.

#4 - First Industrial Realty, Inc. (FR) -22.3% Total 2008 Return
This was my first ever dividend

By Jennifer Yousfi

Wind power should account for 20% of U.S. energy needs within a decade – compared with virtually nothing now – as the country’s energy needs are increasingly taken care of by sources of alternative energy, former Texas oilman-turned-wind-power-entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens told Congress last week.

This is my first post ever at Seeking Alpha, so please be kind. I'm not a hot-shot investment pro, just a 'Do it yourself-er'. I've managed to beat the market 11 out of the past 13 years (and every year since the Dot-com bust) by buying stock the way my Grandmother used to buy wool ("I buy a bunch when it is on sale, so that I make more money on my shirts when I sell," she used to say).

Since I am a long-term 'buy and hold' investor, I personally see a lot of value in this market. Yes, there will be ups and downs, but in the end, these 4 stocks will seem like incredible bargains, 5 to 1

You may think your greatest wealth building asset is the Chevron (CVX) stock you purchased 3 years ago. Even though your brilliant purchase has appreciated over 50% in the last 3 years in the face of a bear market, it is not your greatest wealth building asset.

A traditionalist would say your home is your greatest wealth building asset. This is getting closer, but it is not your greatest wealth building asset.

I really can't believe first that this stock is not getting any significant play about its rapidly growing infrastructure business or its investments in water and solar and wind energy.  The focus is all on the financial side of the business.  Well, the financials may be a big chunk (~50% I think) of the business but the future is in the other investments I believe while the financial side gives the rest of the business leverage to borrow cheaply to expand. 

The BRIC countries are all growing and require major infrastructure investment.  The "western" world's infrastructure is decayin