Incerteza global já se reflete nos lucros das cotadas da bolsa

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Mas isso e' verdade... Esta mais atractiva que ha um ano, mas isso n quer dizer que esteja atractiva ainda!



Alias em varias entrevistas ele ainda diz que esta' caro o mercado americano. Dai ele andar a viajar a' procura de negocios na Europa.

A meu ver, daqui por mais uns tempos, assim que passar esta crise o mercado recuperará. Mas lembro-me de ouvir Mr.Buffett dizer que os negócios que ele agora anda à procura na Europa, mesmo que hoje não estejam dispostos a vender, PODIA ser que daqui a 5 anos os actuais proprietários estivessem dispostos a vender lá para essa altura...
Quer isto dizer que em 2013 teremos o mercado em baixo, bem barato.

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Mas isso e' verdade... Esta mais atractiva que ha um ano, mas isso n quer dizer que esteja atractiva ainda!



Alias em varias entrevistas ele ainda diz que esta' caro o mercado americano. Dai ele andar a viajar a' procura de negocios na Europa.

[EuroVerde]

Mercados
Warren Buffett diz que a bolsa está "mais atractiva"
22.08.2008 - 17h24 AFP

O homem mais rico do mundo, afirmou hoje que a bolsa está hoje “mais atractiva” do que há um ano, uma declaração que se reflectiu de imediato na recuperação de Wall Street.


As acções são, no seu conjunto, “mais atractivas” hoje do que há um ano, disse Buffett numa entrevista à cadeira financeira CNBC, acrescentando que não tem actualmente quaisquer posições contra o dólar.

A bolsa de Nova Iorque reagiu às declarações do multimilionário: a meio da sessão, o índice Dow Jones ganhava 1,35 por cento e o Nasdaq 0,9 por cento.

Num tom menos optimista, previu que os EUA ainda vão conhecer “um bom numero” de falências bancárias, nomeadamente das instituições agiram de forma “idiota”. Também admitiu que o mercado imobiliário vai continuar “duro” nos próximos 18 a 24 meses.

“Muitas pessoas especularam no imobiliário e compraram sem suporte. As consequências não desaparecerão num mês ou dois. Durarão um período considerável”, acrescentou.

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RTP Noticias 3/9/2008
EUA: Multimilionário Warren Buffett dá 1,3 mil milhões de euros a instituições de caridade

Omaha, Nebraska, 08 Jul (Lusa) - O multimilionário Warren Buffett entregou 512.169 acções da Berkshire Hathaway, no valor de 1,3 mil milhões de euros, a três fundações dedicadas à caridade, continuando a despojar-se de grande parte da colossal fortuna que acumulou.

As doações foram comunicadas na segunda-feira à comissão de fiscalização de valores mobiliários.

As acções estavam avaliadas, a 1 de Julho, data da entrega, em 3.999 dólares cada (cerca de 2.550 euros), pelo que a doação atingiu 2,05 mil milhões de dólares (1,3 mil milhões de euros).

A maior parte das acções (451.250) foi doada à Fundação Bill & Melinda Gates.

Buffett tinha anunciado em 2006 que tencionava doar gradualmente 10 milhões de acções à fundação instituída pelo patrão da Microsoft, um milhão à Fundação Susan Thompson Buffett, nome da sua primeira mulher, e 350.000 a cada uma das fundações geridas pelos seus três filhos

A Berkshire Hathaway, sedeada em Omaha, no estado de Nebraska, controla uma grande variedade de empresas de seguros, roupas, mobílias, jóias, doçaria, restauração, gás natural e aviões a jacto, tendo importantes parcelas do capital da Coca-Cola e Wells Fargo, entre outras, o que projectou Warren Buffett para segundo homem mais rico do mundo, segundo a revista Forbes.

Buffett tem-se mostrado muito crítico em relação ao comportamento de grandes grupos de investimento norte-americanos que se lançaram naquilo que chamou a "aventura" das hipotecas imobiliárias de alto risco e que são em grande parte responsáveis pela grande crise financeira mundial desencadeada há cerca de um ano.

[EuroVerde]

Economic woes will continue - Buffett


OMAHA, Neb. | Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Friday the economy continued to be in a recession, by his definition, and would continue to be for at least several more months.

During a live appearance on CNBC, Buffett said ripples of the credit crunch were continuing to cause problems in financial businesses and the economy.

Earlier this year, he said a financial crisis reveals which players have been “swimming naked,” because the tide goes out. That picture has worsened along with the crisis.

“We found out that Wall Street has been king of a nudist beach,” said Buffett, who is chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which is based in Omaha.

Buffett said activity at businesses Berkshire owns, especially ones related to housing construction such as Shaw carpet and Acme Brick, continued to slow during the summer.

He is confident the nation will be doing better five years from now, Buffett said, but the economy could be worse five months from now.

Buffett said the economy was in a recession, because most Americans were not doing as well today as before.

Regarding the nation’s credit crunch, Buffett said he thought mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were too big to fail, but that shareholder equity still could be wiped out.

“They’re looking for help, obviously,” Buffett said. “And the scale of help is such that I don’t think it can come from the private sector.”

Buffett said it was likely more banks would fail, especially in areas where there was a real estate bubble and the banks got heavily involved.

“What we’ll see is failures where the bankers were dumb in what they did,” Buffett said.

Buffett also said Friday he sold nearly two-thirds of Berkshire’s 35.6 million shares of Anheuser-Busch Cos. stock because he had not been sure Belgian brewer InBev SA’s takeover bid of $65 a share would succeed. Anheuser agreed to the $52 billion bid in July.

“In retrospect, I was wrong to partially sell the holdings,” Buffett said, disclosing that he sold the stock for $61 or $62 a share. At the end of June Berkshire still held 13.8 million shares of Anheuser-Busch.

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De facto este documentário vem no momento certo, a julgar pelo trailler, pois os EUA estão a atravessar uma crise financeira e imobiliária e vão eleger um novo presidente.

Já agora fica também o site oficial

http://www.iousathemovie.com/

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obrigado branc0.

por acaso era coisa que ainda n tinha visto...

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Já agora o trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBo2xQIWHiM

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IOUSA e' um filme, documentario que relata o problema dos EUA e em como um futuro sucumbal reserva aos EUA devido ao national debt, e a' irresponsabilidade dos politicos americanos...

Participaçoes de inúmeras pessoas publicas reconhecidas e credenciadas como Warren Buffett entre outros...

O filme estreeou ha' coisa de uma semana...espero vir ter a oportunidade de o ver e deixo aqui a critica do tao aclamado "movie critic" Roger Ebert, que resolveu fazer a critica escrevendo uma carta aos seus descendentes...

By Roger Ebert

A letter to our grandchildren, Raven, Emil and Taylor: I see you growing up into such beautiful people, and I wish all good things to you as you make the leap into adulthood. But I have just seen a documentary titled "I.O.U.S.A." that snapped into sharp focus why your lives may not be as pleasant as ours have been. Chaz and I had the blessing of growing up in an optimistic, bountiful America. We never fully realized that we were paying for many of our comforts with your money.

Let me explain. There is something called the "national debt." In the movie's interviews with ordinary people, it has a hard time finding anyone who knows exactly what that is. Well, I've never exactly known, either. I thought I knew, but it never came up in conversation, and it became a meaningless abstraction, even though in 2009, the debt will pass $9 trillion. You might think of those as dollars our nation has spent without having them.

What will this mean to you? It will mean you will live in a country no longer able to pay for many of the services and guarantees we take for granted. In 40 years, when you are still less than my age, it looks like the government will only be able to pay for three things: Interest on the national debt, "some" Social Security and "some" Medicare. It will not be able to afford any of the other functions it now performs.

How did we get into this situation? With a federal government that has been throwing bad money after good. Of all the presidents in the last century, the only one who was able to achieve a balanced budget and produce a surplus was Bill Clinton. He did that by bravely raising taxes and cutting spending. Our current president, George W. Bush, is now finishing up eight years of throwing around money like a drunken sailor. His fellow conservatives, like Rush Limbaugh, like to talk about "tax and spend Democrats." But they seem to be "don't tax and spend even more Republicans."

Not that this film takes sides. It is non-partisan and includes many Republicans who agree with its argument that the country is headed for disaster within the lifetimes of many now living. It centers on David M. Walker, until recently the U.S. comptroller general, and Robert Bixby, the head of the nonpartisan Concord Coalition, who have been on a national "Fiscal Wake-Up" tour that will last until the November elections. They are trying to sound the alarm, but they speak to half-empty town halls and captive Rotarians and get pushed off the local news by a story of a man who swallowed a diamond.

I don't really believe this review will inspire enormous numbers of people to go see the film. But if they do, they'll find it accomplishes an amazing thing. It explains the national debt, the foreign trade deficit, the decrease in personal savings, how the prime interest rate works, and the weakness of our leaders. No, not only George W. Bush, but politicians of both parties, who know if they vote against tax cuts, they will be lambasted by their opponents and could lose their jobs. In the film, we see President Bush being asked about the debt and replying: "Ask the economists. I think I only got a B-minus in economics." Then he gives that little chuckle. "But I got an A-plus in cutting taxes."

Yes, he cut taxes while our national spending mushroomed. What we have to do is bite the bullet and pay higher taxes while spending less. The war in Iraq is a much sexier issue. But no matter what happens in Iraq, the real crisis we face is the debt. The movie includes testimony by former Fed chairman Paul Volker, former Treasury Department secretary Paul O'Neill, billionaire Warren Buffett, congressman Ron Paul and others on both sides of the fence who all agree: Don't buy what you can't pay for.

Here's an interesting statistic. I remember when "Made in China" meant cheap and shabby merchandise. No longer. In the ranking of the trade imbalance among all the world's nations, China is first with the highest surplus, and the United States is last with the largest deficit. The Chinese now hold a huge chunk of our debt. If they ever call in the loan, it would destroy our economy. In the presidential debate earlier in the year, Ron Paul was a lonely voice talking about the debt; the others on both sides paid lip service to the problem and moved on.

So here's the bottom line, kids. The United States is probably going to go broke during your lifetimes. Actually, it's already broke, but getting deeper into debt allows it to keep running on thin air, like the Road Runner. My advice? Learn Chinese. Start savings accounts. Don't buy what you can't afford. Any politician who tries to win votes by promising to cut taxes is digging our country's grave.