Can't figure out when to get into the market, and when to stay out?  Congress Asset Management's Peter Andersen feels your pain.  Go for the names that have high dividend yields, and ones that have pretty transparent balance sheets.  There's a lot of them out there right now."   Read More

Robert writes, "After Wednesday’s slaughter are we done or will we need to retest the lows a few more times?"   Read More

Tina Vital, integrated oil and gas equity analyst for Standard & Poor's, says oil companies remain good investments — despite Barack Obama's pledge to curb consumption.   Read More

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway sharply increased its stake in ConocoPhillips this spring and summer, accumulating a total of 84 million shares as of the end of the third quarter on September 30, according to Berkshire's just-released quarterly portfolio filing with the SEC.    Read More

Like anxious relatives in a hospital room, investors have been watching the economy get sicker and sicker with new symptoms surfacing daily.   Read More

For the week ending Friday, September 2, 2008,  the major U.S. Indices finished up for a week marked with the demise of more financial stocks, sluggish Retail Sales data, a steeper than expected decline in Pending Home Sales, and a looming hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.  Volatility continues to dominate the markets as the Dow posted a 2 day consecutive up/down point move of 569 points on Monday and Tuesday (up 289 and then down 280), its largest 2-day up/down point swing since June 6. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) which measures market uncertainty reached an intraday high of 26.67 on Friday.   Read More

THIS IS A LIVE BLOG ARCHIVE OF WARREN BUFFETT'S APPEARANCES ON CNBC'S SQUAWK BOX THIS MORNING. BUFFETT SPOKE WITH BECKY QUICK LIVE IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA.   ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.    Read More

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has added a new stake in NRG Energy, according to a just-released portfolio 'snapshot' of its holdings in U.S. publicly-traded stocks as of June 30.  A sharply reduced stake in Anheuser-Busch may have been a bet that InBev's initially unsolicited offer for the U.S. brewer would prove to be unsuccessful.  Conoco-Phillips data is kept "confidential."   Read More

Yes, but not for the long term, Cramer says. Here's how you trade this market.   Read More

Coming back from a 90 point loss after a much worse than expected loss from Freddie Mac, the Dow rebounded as U.S. stocks hit a six-week high. The trend of health & personal care stocks doing well in this market continues.    Read More