Fairfax Financial

Just ahead of Independence Day market closures, rumors and news abounded of mergers, from revived chatter of Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) for Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) to new disruptions by activist investors. 1. Bankrate Red Ventures, a privately owned data company, entered a $1.4...

Major indices finished Wednesday's trading session relatively flat as the Fed's minutes released had no impact on the markets. Minutes released from the Federal Reserve's latest meeting re-affirmed that many members on the committee wanted to proceed with caution in trimming the $85 billion...

BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) is set to report its third quarter 2014 results on Friday, before the market opens. Typically results are released at 7:00 a.m. EST, with a conference call to take place an hour later. The consensus estimate for EPS is a loss of $0.44 a share, on revenues of $1.58...

Fairfax Financial on November 7 officially retracted its $4.7 billion offer to buy BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), but has committed to invest $1 billion with five other strategic partners. The Wall Street Journal reported that Fairfax is teaming up with several other Canadian investments firms and a...

When Thorsten Heins was appointed CEO people wondered who he was and where Blackberry (NASDAQ: BBRY) found him. Heins was seen as a puppet for “departing” co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis and not expected to do much of anything to turn the company around. They were right. Monday, the...

This weekend in Barron's online: the looming economic calamity if entitlement spending is not reined in, as well as the prospects for AMC Networks, Prem Watsa and more. Cover Story "What, Me Worry?" by Gene Epstein. Unless Washington stops dithering, says this week's cover story in Barron's, the...