Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) has entered the travel insurance business with coverage that compensates travellers for flight delays; excessive waits on the tarmac; lost, stolen or delayed luggage, and missed connections. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) stock opened today at $190,550.00 and is currently trading at $189,925.00. The stock showed a negative weekly performance of -0.37%.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B) is DirecTV’s largest shareholder with about 34.5 million shares and should see a profit of about $700 million if the deal closes as planned. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B) stock opened at $126.92, in current trading session and currently is at $126.55, by losing -0.46%. The 52 week range of $108.12 – $129.73. Company’s market capitalization is 311.89 billion.
Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:CORE) will begin trading ex-dividend on May 21, 2014. A cash dividend payment of $0.22 per share is scheduled to be paid on June 16, 2014. Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:CORE) stock is currently trading at $77.40. The EPS of the stock is 3.56. Company’s market capitalization is 891.42 million.
W.R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:WRB) is looking like an interesting pick from a technical perspective, as the company is seeing favourable trends on the moving average crossover front. More bullishness may especially be the case when investors consider what has been happening for WRB on the earnings estimate revision front lately. No estimates have gone lower in the past two months, compared to 7 higher, while the consensus estimate has also moved higher too. W.R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:WRB) stock opened the session at $44.09, and now is at $43.92. The 52 week range of the W.R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:WRB) stock remained $37.82 – $45.18 and the day range was $43.88 – $44.11.
BAE Systems PLC (ADR) (OTCMKTS:BAESY) and Infor today announced a new strategic partnership to deliver and install Infor’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solutions for the U.S. government. ERP software can consolidate networks by integrating departments and functions across an organization or agency onto one computer system. BAE Systems PLC (ADR) (OTCMKTS:BAESY) stock opened today at $27.48 and is currently trading at $27.52.