Be Greedy when Others are Fearful, Be Fearful when Others are Greedy.

These are wise words from Warren Buffett, the Richest Investor in the whole world.

A few months ago, when there was alot of uncertainties, I decided to buy some shares in 2 U.S. Banks, I only bought these 2 banks becos they were already announced to be 2 of the 9 Banks U.S. Government will support to ensure that they don't fail.

I bought CITIGROUP (at average cost of US$1.30) and Bank of America (at average cost of US$6.98)......to me, it was quite unbelieveable to be able to buy CITIGROUP shares (its Global brand name already worth billions of dollars) at a price cheaper than a Mcdonald's Big Mac in U.S....

In order to gather some perspective on the current stock market rally, Chart of the Day highlighted the duration (calendar days) and magnitude (percentage gain) of all significant Dow rallies that occurred during the 1929-1932 bear market (solid blue dots). By means of illustration, the bear market rally that began in October 1931 lasted 35 calendar days and resulted in a gain of 35%. “… the current Dow rally (hollow blue dot labeled ‘You are here’) is slightly below average in both duration and magnitude relative to the average 1929-1932 bear market rally (hollow red dot),” said Chart of the Day.

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Warren Buffett told a record crowd at a somber annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc that first-quarter operating profit fell and the company's book value declined 6 percent, as the recession hurt many of the company's businesses and investments.

Operating profit fell about 12 percent from a year earlier to $1.7 billion, as most of Berkshire's businesses were "basically down," Buffett told an estimated 35,000 people at the meeting in downtown Omaha.

The decline in book value results in part from falling stock prices and higher losses on derivatives contracts, and comes on top of a 9.6 percent decline last year, the biggest drop since Buffett began running the company in 1965.