zarley

It's very thinly traded, so one committed seller can keep the price down for a while. If you look at a day's volume, it is usually in the low thousands of shares.

Trying to figure out the table formatting . . . Maturity Yield Yesterday Last Week Last Month 3 Month 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 6 Month0.20 0.16 0.20 0.36 2 Year 0.72 0.78 0.92 0.99 3 Year 0.89 0.94 1.11 1.25 5 Year 1.43 1.45 1.44 1.90 10 Year 2.06 2.10 2.18 2.92 30 Year 2.56 2.63 2.633.43 The code for it is convoluted and tiresome; and the result isn't a lot better. I wonder if I'm doing it wrong. :(

Not really a question of better. The ORH-B shares have a floating dividend rate (based on 3 month LIBOR) and the A shares have a fixed rate. Since short term rates have come down considerably recently, the payout for the B shares will be less than the A shares for the immediate future. At current prices the A shares are yielding almost 12%. Disclaimer: I own ORH-A.

Thanks Sanjeev. I know you have your hands full; your efforts are much appreciated. I like using avatars. For me, I get to know posters by their avatar and it can make for a much faster visual filter if I'm looking for a post by a particular person.

According to the recently released annual report for the Fairholme Fund, they have sold all of their holdings in BRK. http://www.fairholmefunds.com/2008ar.pdf

Good tips on some of the posting functionality here: http://cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/forum/index.php?action=help;page=post#bbcref

First, thanks Sanjeev for coming through with the message board format. At first glance, it looks great -- simple/functional. Just a couple questions though. . . Will uploadable avatars be available? Freddie Prinz Jr. is awesome, but I might want to use something else. Are videos postable? Should be standard by now, but it's not obvious as I type this up that it is possible. Maybe this thread could be a repository for board function Q&A? zarley