Editor's Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past c

Recently, the government’s Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, “suggested” that outgoing Bank of America (BAC) CEO Ken Lewis should take home $0 in salary for 2009, and receive a bonus of e

Surprise! It's Christmas! (again...) Christmas always seemed to surprise me when I was first living on my own. It would be about this time of year I realized that I needed to spend a large sum of mon

Forget about what he says. If you want to learn what Warren Buffett really thinks are money-making bets, look at what the old guru is actually doing.The greatest value investor of our time likes to p

1. Banks Go for Broke......and They're Almost ThereA game of chicken. That's really what it's come down to for banks. Listening in on the Pulte Homes (PHM) conference call this morning, Richard J. Du

Yesterday, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) CEO Warren Buffett stunned Wall Street when he announced he was plunking down $34 billion to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI). This isn’t the firs

Berkshire for BNI Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) will acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNI) for the remaining 77.4% of outstanding shares the company doesn’t already own.The

1. Behold, the Green Shoots!It's a good day to be an optimist. A couple of datapoints out this morning surprised to the upside by a significant margin. First, the Institute of Supply Managements' fac

The trannies are talking and what they’re saying has some pros spooked.Technicians and strategists note that the Dow Transports are struggling. Smita Sadana, founder and CEO of Sunrise Capital,

Rovi Corporation (ROVI), a Santa Clara, California, digital entertainment firm, has seen its stock pummeled in recent weeks, dropping some 20% from $34.50 to $28 over the past two weeks. But even as