29.8.08

Buffett critica AB

O bilionário Buffett criticou a Anheuser-Busch, da qual era investidor e vendeu 60% delas antes do acordo com a Inbev. Uma das justificativas foi o gasto de 72 milhões com instituições financeiras para manter a Inbev longe.

QUICK: OK. Let's talk about your most recent disclosures for some of your holdings. When we saw the last numbers, your shares in Anheuser-Busch, a lot of people were surprised to see that you had gotten out of those shares before a deal went through with InBev.
BUFFETT: That's right. I sold about 60 percent of them in the second quarter.
QUICK: Why?
BUFFETT: Well, I wasn't--it was an evaluation of whether I thought the deal would go through and the desire to sell at least some of the shares. I mean, Anheuser-Busch did not want the deal to go through and they hired investment bankers, very expensive. They spent $72 million with two investment banking firms. And believe me, most of that was spent with the idea of trying to keep InBev away. So who knew how it was going to come out? And InBev persevered, they raised their price and on the remaining shares we'll do somewhat better; although there's still a time factor and we've used the money for other things. But in retrospect, I was wrong to decide to partially sell the holdings.


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28.8.08

Os melhores retornos dos mercados mundiais

O primeiro gráfico mostra o retorno do Mercado acionário global desde 12 de março de 2003. (Country Total Returns Since March 2003)

Analisando por país, o maior retorno foi do mercado brasileiro: 427%.

25.8.08

Ganhadores da Semana

Toda semana o Wall Street Journal apresenta uma coluna com os ganhadores e perdedores da semana que passou. Na semana do dia 22 de agosto de 2008 Stephen Grocer mostra os dois ganhadores como sendo:

a) Goldman Sachs Group e Citigroup – irão receber 72 milhões pelos conselhos dado para Anheuser-Busch durante o acordo com a Inbev. É uma gorda comissão
b) August Busch IV – o playboy irá receber uma bolada pelo acordo, sera consultor da Inbev, recebendo mais de 125 milhões de dólares.