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Archive for April 14th, 2008

General RE in trouble???

Montag, April 14th, 2008

Joseph Brandon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Re Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has decided to resign effective today. Franklin “Tad” Montross, President of General Re Corporation, will replace Mr. Brandon as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Re Corporation.
It is a Buffett Company …
NO REASON GIVEN … […]

Financials start to act …

Montag, April 14th, 2008

After the negative surprise of GE … especially after they mentioned that they got hit within the last 2 weeks of March … due to the Bear Stearns turmoil …
We start to understand, why the financials start to move on to clean up their act … at least a bit.
And it seems to be AWFUL!!!
Citibank […]