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Upgrades For Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK), Edward Jones upgraded the previous rating of Hold to Buy. Berkshire Hathaway earned $6312.49 in the second quarter, compared to $4399.91 in the year-ago quarter.

The following real estate investment trusts (REITs) are interesting because each one bears a balance sheet not too different from those considered desirable in Benjamin Graham’s classic “The Intelligent Investor.” Graham, of course, is deemed the father of value investing and greatly influenced Warren Buffett, his student at Columbia University.

Pre-open movers U.S. stock futures traded slightly higher in early pre-market trade on Wednesday after recording losses on Tuesday. The Dow Jones closed lower by more than 300 points, while the Nasdaq Composite fell over 100 points in the previous session.

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Rapper and designer Kanye West, who goes by “Ye,” has terminated his Yeezy brand partnership with Gap Inc (NYSE: GPS) two years after the deal was announced.

Tuesdays are often the busiest day for Wall Street analysts to reveal their rating changes, and today was no exception. Unfortunately for shareholders of Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE), it was a downgrade from Barclays.

SilverBow Resources Inc (NYSE: SBOW) is a small cap oil and gas company operating out of Texas that is leveraging its core footprint in the Eagle Ford Shale, while also employing disciplined M&A parameters to scale its South Texas footprint.

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Veeva Sys (NYSE:VEEV). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

U.S. stocks traded lower toward the end of trading, with the Dow Jones dropping 400 points on Tuesday.