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Opinion on  Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (FFH)     Sector: Financial  >  Industry: Insurance (Prop. & Casualty)
Fairfax Hedges

Aug 06, 2007 06:36 AM GMT
Return Risk
+5.98% HIGH
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Fundamental Analysis  
Via www.controlledgreed.com:  
In May I posted about Prem Watsa positioning Fairfax Financial's (FFH/NYSE) investment portfolio for a "hundred year storm" in the markets. This weekend, James Daw of the Toronto Star reports on Watsa's comments during the Fairfax recent conference call: But Watsa and his team are looking smarter or luckier, in a morbid way, that they bought investment protection when it was still available and when prices were cheaper. Like various other stock market indices,...



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FFH:  This call was made on 08/06/07 @ $195.87
Rating:   Negative   $195.87 (08/06/07)
Closed:   08/23/2007 @ $202.77 (-3.52% in 17 days)


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