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Analyst's Discussions: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-B)

Value ranks companies using four ratios. The P/S or Price to Sales ratio of BP p.l.c. (NYSE:BP) stands at 0.48 and Price to Book or P/B for the most recent quar...

Amazon to acquire mesh wi-fi networking startup eero

For consumers, Amazon owning Eero could make it easier to set up and manage the wide range of wireless devices in their homes. Eero sells a $99 per year Plus su...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she's fine with a sitting president smoking marijuana

Currently, US residents in that top bracket pay 37%. In an interview in The Verge , Gates said such an approach is "a misfocus ". "But we can be more progre...

Bank of England head warns of 'shock' if no-deal Brexit

With more than a month to go until Britain's scheduled departure from the European Union , the Bank of England governor said: "It is in the interests of ev...

Fundstrat Expects 2019 to Bring Incremental Improvements in Crypto Prices

He posted an introduction to the study and infographics that trace key market tendencies from 2017 to now. CRYPTO: we see 9 incremental improvements in the la...

Bitcoin Basher Jamie Dimon & JP Morgan Just Launched Their Own Cryptocurrency — Newsflash

In trials scheduled to begin in a few months, it plans to handle a small fraction of those payments using a homegrown blockchain. JP Morgan is the first Uni...

Whole Foods raises prices on hundreds of items

We're referring in this case to a leaked email obtained by The Wall Street Journal , which showed that even with Amazon's deep pockets, Whole Foods is apparent...

Amazon backtracks, says it will not build HQ in New York

It pledged that the 25,000 jobs that will be added over 10 years at its so-called HQ2 in the Long Island City neighborhood will include new hires from "across t...

Tesla rolls out 'sentry mode' safety feature

Atchley tweeted at Tesla CEO Elon Musk in October, asking that the Model 3 include a function "where the music plays and the AC is on, with a display screen say...

US solar jobs down for second year as Trump tariffs weigh

The number of jobs in the US solar industry dropped by 3.2 percent in 2018, a second year of losses, as the Trump administration's tariffs on foreign panels...

Delta flight NIGHTMARE: Emergency landing as five injured in 'NOSE DIVE' turbulence

The turbulence was so bad that it caused a flight attendant's drinks cart to flip over in the aisle, dislodging its shelves and contents, according passengers ...

Aurora Cannabis loses $238M in second quarter even as revenues surge

Net revenue was $54.2 million, an 83 per cent year-over-year increase, while the company recorded a loss attributable to shareholders of $237.7 million, compare...

Boston tops LA for worst rush-hour traffic in the nation

Elsewhere in the UK, Inrix calculated that motorists in Edinburgh are losing up to £1,219, while drivers in Manchester are losing up to £1,157, and those in L...

Trade talks with China are 'going along very well,' Trump says

Both the U.S. and China have imposed more and more tariffs on billions of dollars worth of each other's goods over the previous year and America has signalled...

Temasek, Sequoia & others invest $226 mn in fashion startup Zilingo

Two Indian entrepreneurs Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor incorporated Zilingo as a fashion and lifestyle marketplace in 2015. So to help themselves with the ex...

Oil prices edge up on hopes for US-China trade breakthrough

Saudi Arabia will reduce oil production to nearly 9.8 million barrels per day in March, Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources and Chairman of Sau...

A380: Airbus to end production of superjumbo

The fate of the A380 superjumbo has been in doubt since a vital order from Emirates foundered over inconclusive engine talks, forcing the two sides to weigh...

Tencent to Make investments $150M in Dialogue Platform Reddit

While Reddit is not now available in China, Tencent will have noticed the emergence of Bytedance - the company behind news aggregator Toutiao and short vi...

SEC accuses former Apple lawyer of insider trading

For instance, in July 2015, Levoff learned that Apple wouldn't meet analysts' third-quarter forecast for iPhone sales, the SEC said in a related civil compl...

Ford’s Lane-Keeping Bed Is the Best Thing for Couples Ever

Separate beds have been the solution for some sleep-deprived couples. Using weight sensing technology, if Ford's Lane-Keeping Bed detects that you or your signi...

Smartphone shipments fell more than 10% in China

In contrast, Huawei , China's largest smartphone maker and occasionally the second most popular phone maker in the world, sometimes third , offers premium...

JLR's latest engine to be built at £1bn Wolves base

The efficiencies and mild electrification help improve fuel economy over the previous supercharged V-6 engine by about 20 percent. Initially available exclusi...

Latest Rumor Has GM & Amazon Investing In Rivian

Inc and General Motors Co are in talks to invest in Rivian Automotive LLC in a deal that would value the USA electric pickup truck manufacturer at between $1 bi...

Ford recalling 1.5 million F-150s to fix transmission issue

Ford is issuing a safety recall on select 2011 to 2013 Ford F-150 vehicles with six-speed automatic transmissions, 2017 to 2019 Lincoln Continental vehicles, an...

Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $900m for employee stock plan manager

Solium manages stock plans for some 3,000 companies, including fast-growing new companies led by rising wealth accumulators who often opt for being compensated ...

'Absher' app tracks & controls Saudi women

Using Absher , Saudi men can restrict the travel of Saudi women by first allowing or disallowing them to leave the country, and the men can also limit the date...

'Trumpworld Associate' Leaked Those Scandalous Texts From Amazon's Bezos

Neither AMI nor Sanchez have confirmed the claim, but this new report cited multiple anonymous sources inside the media company. But Michael told Howard Kurtz, ...

Lloyds apologises after customers hit by online banking glitch

Several Lloyds customers used social media to complain about not being able to log in to their online accounts. On September 21 previous year millions of RBS,...

Hacker destroys all data held by USA email provider

This attack may not turn out to be as catastrophic to VFEmail as the similar one that effectively destroyed cloud code hosting service Code Spaces in 2014, bu...

E.ON UK to raise energy prices by 10 pct from April

The regulator last week said the cap would rise from April to reflect higher costs for energy suppliers such as wholesale prices, which it said were 17 percen...

Lufthansa sues passenger for missing the last leg of their flight

Lufthansa are believed to be hit harder by the practice than other airlines because numerous company's flights are routed through the hubs of Frankfurt and M...

Global oil supply to swamp demand in 2019 despite output cuts: IEA

On the broader picture, the current OPEC + deal to curb oil production, U.S. sanctions against Venezuelan and Iranian oil exports and the so-called "Saudi Put"...

Elon Musk Teases Everyone With Possible 'Dog Mode' Release This Week

Prior to starting deliveries, it will open up the Model 3 configurator for United Kingdom drivers on its website within 1-2 months, and there is a small chanc...

Theresa May to ask MPs for more time on Brexit talks

Mr Robbins suggested the strategy would be to tell the Commons in the final week of March that if an amended version of the government's deal wasn't passed, tal...

Retail inflation at 19-month low in January; December industrial growth subdued

January's data is an indication that inflation , which is little over 2 percent, is very close to the central bank's lower tolerance level of inflation at 2 pe...