Value Investing News

The most important dividend events of the past week included news that have regulators warned financial companies to restrict dividend increases and stock buybacks for the near future. According to Reuters, executives from Goldman Sachs (GS) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM) have had talks with regulators about returning more cash to shareholders.

After earnings announcements from Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), Intel Corporation (NasdaqGS: INTC) and JP Morgan Chase Co. (NYSE: JPM) did not live up to expectations and their stocks fell, the market is beginning to get a little nervous. We have seen the market have some recent sharp declines on these earnings, each following day it has bounced back and recovered most of its losses.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), the fifth-biggest U.S. bank by assets, is scheduled to release its fourth quarter earnings for 2009 before the opening bell on Thursday, January 21, 2010. Analysts, on average, expect the company to report earnings of $5.19 per share on revenue of $9.75 billion.

The biggest deal in Berkshire Hathaway history began with a brief conversation 12 days ago in Fort Worth, Texas.

Warren Buffett talked to Evan Davis at the headquarters of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, in Buffett's native Omaha, in the mid-Western state of Nebraska. Buffett shares his ideas about the current financial crisis, his investment philosophy, and his one indulgence - his private jet.

Complete Growth Investor (CGI) has launched a new weekly value investing podcast with CGI analysts Tom Jacobs, Jason Fitnich, Jeff Annello and Davy Bui.

This past week, we discussed the market rally from a different perspective than you might hear on CNBC. Previous weeks, we looked at Premier Exhibitions in-depth, examined the financials industry, and handicapped Google vs Microsoft.

Today, we’re releasing the beta version of YCHARTS to enable investors to visualize massive amounts of fundamental market information in real-time.

YCHARTS is your market visualization engine for fundamental analysis.

"Learn more from Buffett's early career, when he made his first millions"

In the corporate world executives receive high amounts of compensation including salary, stock options, restricted stock, perks and many others, which in some cases could amount to millions of dollars. It is often argued that executives of large Fortune 500 corporations get a large paycheck as an incentive to perform well in order to reward shareholders with increased wealth.

Several banks have learned the hard way that when you get the U.S. government’s money, even in the form of a loan, as a bonus you get the government’s “help” running your business. So what’s a company to do when they realize they’re in a bad relationship?

Have you ever noticed those that most vehemently attack a buy-and-hold strategy really don’t understand how buy-and-hold works? The confuse a buy-and-hold strategy with day-trading with a longer duration.

The arrogance of the financial institutions, the mad scientists they employ to manipulate the rules and rule makers, and the Emperor's New Clothes (trust me they're safe) marketing tactics they employ really do need to be regulated--- by the government, sure; by corporate boards of directors, absolutely. In a Working Capital Model world, there would be no financial crisis.

When things are good your a Hero, when things go sour everyone turns their back and finds more dirt...

Warren Buffett is on the move again by purchasing $250 million worth of debt from Tiffany’s. Half of the debt will mature in 2017, while the rest will mature in 2019.

Recent filings for Mohnish Pabrai