Festivities for the 25th anniversary of “Die Wallfall”, the fall of the Berlin Wall between the old Communist East Germany and the rest of the world were rather subdued because the now free German railroad workers went on strike. Strikes were illegal in the old German “Workers' Paradise”.

Eduardo Garcia writes that Fibra Uno, the Mexican REIT, is paying $90 mn to buy the Hilton Hotel in Mexico City's Centro Historico, of which $31 mn is the assumption of debt.

Buffett compares voting against excess executive pay to burping at the dinner table. You will be banned to the kitchen if you do this, he remarked at the weekend Omaha rally when criticized for backing the high and dilutive payouts at Coca Cola, where Berkshire Hathaway is a major shareholder.

While StarMine data shows that Q1 results at small and microcap companies have missed estimates 56% of the time, large companies in Q1 were 52% likely to match or beat estimated earnings.

Financial news from Britain, The Netherlands, Belgium, Jordan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Israel, Cyprus, and Canada, a company report, plus much news of how capex is financed, and on drug companies.

After Wall Street hit a speed bump, almost all foreign markets continued, from a lower base, to rise further in April to date. The only exceptions, and there are rather few of them, are company-, sector-, currency-, or country-specific.