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Buffett Hammered By IBM, Tesco, Coke And Winters

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Mark Melin
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It’s been a rough earnings season for Warren Buffett thus far.

Buffett lost almost $1 billion on Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) (NYSE:BRK.B)’s third largest investment, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM), after the firm’s financial engineering caught up with them, as New York Time’s Dealbook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin noted.  “All these 'shareholder friendly' maneuvers have been masking an ugly truth: IBM’s success in recent years has been tied more to financial engineering than actual performance,” he writes.

But IBM isn’t the only problem for Buffett ,and neither is Tesco.

Warren Buffett takes another hit as Coca-Cola disappoints with earnigns

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO)’s earnings,

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.