Recent News: Stock Performance, Dividend Cut?, Warren Buffet, and Berkshire Hathaway

General Electric (GE) Lower Again On Fears
After trading higher earlier, General Electric Co. is lower again. The stock is trading at $20.63, down 3.5%. The 52-week low is $19.69. GE recently had that large stock offering at $22.25, which is now underwater....

General Electric May be Next to Cut its Dividend (GE)
General Electric (GE) has said it would like to continue paying out its current dividend, but questions abound as to whether that will be possible, given the company’s capital concerns...

GE shares recover after plunging to 11-year low
Shares of General Electric Co. staged a recovery Tuesday after plunging to their lowest price in more than 11 years. The industrial and commercial conglomerate's stock price advanced 59 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $21.97 in midday trading. A day earlier, the stock tumbled as low as $19.69 before rebounding to finish at $21.38. Monday's session was traumatic for the broader market, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average - of which GE is a component - dived as much as 800 points, dipping below 10,000 for the first time in four years...

Why I’m buying
The market is in free fall. Friends are calling and emailing in a panic. My response: I’m buying. Investors today seem as fearful as they’ve been since, perhaps, the Great Depression. And as Warren Buffett once famously said: “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”..

Warren Buffett's Celebrity-Style Endorsements of GE & Goldman Aren't Helping the Stocks ... Yet
Warren Buffett's celebrity-style endorsements of General Electric and Goldman Sachs haven't paid off in higher stock prices for the two companies -- at least not yet.Buffett's words of praise for GE and Goldman were featured prominently in the announcements of Berkshire Hathaway's $5 billion investment in Goldman on September 23 and its $3 billion injection into General Electric on October 1...

Buffett Buys GE, Goldman: Should You Follow?
While I was sitting at my desk on Wednesday, I heard Chris Rowe marvel, “Warren Buffett is such a stud.” Now, Chris does have a slight man-crush on Warren, but he’s also happily married with baby number two on the way. So I figured that Buffett must have just pulled off a major coup....