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Buffett Beats Gross in Global Poll as Investor With Most Wisdom
Buffett Beats Gross in Global Poll as Investor With Most Wisdom
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Oracle of Omaha retains his pre-eminence as a market visionary, outshining a new wave of financial strategists and the best-known central bankers. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett , chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. , is regarded as ...
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Once Again, Buffett Is The World Greatest Investor
24/7 Wall St. — TV Bloomberg does a poll of its terminal subscribers from time to time. The most recent was done among 1,452 people from October 23 to October 27. The question and answer that will probably get the most media attention is “who is the best assessor of financial markets?” Warren Buffett took a quarter of the votes followed by fixed income investor Bill Gross of PIMCO who received 16% of the votes cast. No one will find it surprising that George Soros and Ben Bernanke was also high on the list. Buffett’s reputation is going through a renaissance. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A), the company he runs and which holds many of his investments, had ...

Opening Bell: 10.29.09
Dealbreaker — Pay Czar Wants No Wider Authority (WSJ) Great news! Kenneth Feinberg does not want to oversea the pay of any firms beyond the 7 special ones he's already policing, despite some Congressmen urging the Compensation Cop to go crazy one everyone's asses. (Vikula et al still loose.) Buffett Beats Gross in Global Poll as Investor With Most Wisdom (Bloomberg) When your need advice on insurance companies or sex, the Oracle is apparently where most people go to get it. If he's got his hands tied with some buxom prosties: "The closest ...

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Club for Growth — ... The public option opt-out is no panacea says Diana Furchtgott-Roth. WSJ Editorial: McDonald's departure from Iceland is a suggestive economic indicator. IBD Editorial: The changes being cooked up in Congress will bend the health care cost curve upward. House Republican leaders have created a new Blackberry application. Mark Perry provides some perspective on the number of bank failures in this country. POLL: Which famous investor has the most wisdom? Forbes: America's largest private ...

Buffett's star shines brightest among world's financial gurus, poll shows
BloggingStocks — Filed under: Forecasts, Products and services, Competitive strategy, General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), ConocoPhillips (COP), Goldman Sachs Group (GS) The housing bubble and subsequent "Great Recession" have tarnished the stars of a good many of the world's financial wizards, such as the former heads at Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch. But one respected image remains -- perhaps unsurprisingly -- on top: Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A). That's according to a recent quarterly poll of investors, traders, and analysts who ...

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