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Usually I wait till Friday or Saturday morning to post the week’s top value investing news, but this week I could not resist.
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The Weeks Top Value Investing News

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Before posting the weeks top value investing news, I would like to thank the families and the individuals who made the ultimate sacrifice in making America as great as it is. Sometimes we forget how wonderful of a country we have and its not until we visit other countries we realize the luxuries we have. [...]

Selling Pacer International and Nabors Industries

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In the 90’s, everyone and their mother talked about investing in the stock market and technology stocks. Again, in the 90’s and the turn of the millennium, taxi drivers and barbers started talking about flipping houses for a living. Now, the talk is the high price of oil and how to profit from it. I [...]

Value Investing Always Bounces Back

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The week’s news has to be crude’s run up to $135/barrel. The problem with
value investing news is sometimes good stories fall too quickly as other stories of less quality get submitted. Eventually, the few of us that do vote for stories do not vote up the high quality ones and thus an excellent story [...]

The weeks top value investing news

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Busy week on the filing front. Most of the Gurus filings have been made public and their holdings are made available at sites like
gurufocus.com and
stockpickr.com. Personally, I like Gurufocus.com for the way the information is organized and presented. But stockpickr works fine. Finally, kudos to Todd Sullivan at
Valueplays for taking 3 out [...]

Warren Buffett added to Unitedhealth Group

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Wow. Talk about timing. Adding to the list of Gurus owning WLP and UNH, Warren Buffett increased his stake in UNH by 400,000 shares. According to
Gurufocus.com, he increased his position by a little more than 6%. Who else will join the health csre train?
For the rest of Warren Buffett’s picks go here:

http://www.gurufocus.com/holdings.php?GuruName=Warren+Buffett

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Gurus Loadinig Up On Health Care Stocks

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I guess I was not the only one looking at them.
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United Healthgroup added to Garcia Value Fund

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Very few industries have been beaten down like the Health Care industry. The DJ Health Care Providers Index is
down 21% in the past 6 months and
down 15% in the past 3 months. There are various reasons the health care industry has sold off, but I think this is a classic example of an [...]

Value Investing Is Simple But Not Easy

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One often hears the Oracle of Omaha (Warren Buffett) say “value investing is simple but not easy”. The million dollar question is….is it true?
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Top Stories On Value Investing News

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To no ones surprise, this week’s value investing news was dominated by Warren Buffett links. Warren Buffett dominated 4 out of the top 5 news links, with the other coming from Charlie Munger’s Wesco Annual Meeting. Throw in the announcement of
McGraw-Hill publishing a 75th anniversary edition of Security Analysis and you have a pretty [...]