Welcome to the end of the week and another edition of Happy Hour! Just sit back, relax, and enjoy your end of the week roundup of all things interesting in the land of money.
BRK Annual Meeting
Omaha filled its tourist quota last weekend with the highly anticipated Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. It’s like a value investors theme park vacation with all the excitement and hoopla without roller coasters.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a BRK annual meeting without some Buffett and Munger highlights and general investing perspective. Out of all the information available, I came across three that summed it up the best. The first is a transcript of the Q&A session from Valuewalk. It’s worth the read just for the Munger quips. The second is a collection of takeaways and impressions from the meeting by other investors. The last is included below. Continue Reading…
Interest rates play a big role in your finances. It affects everything from savings and money market rates, bond yields, mortgage rates, credit card rates, and even how you value a company and it’s stock price.
Often times you’ll here a company announce a stock split. If you invest in stocks long enough, you’ll eventually experience it yourself.
If you’ve ever heard “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, it’s used to describe a simple investing principle known as diversification.