John Hussman Buys WalMart Stores Inc., Panera Bread Company, Network Appliance Inc., Sells Adobe Systems Inc., The Men's Wearhouse Inc., ON Semiconductor Corp.

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Nov 24, 2008
Dr. John Hussman of Hussmand Funds is one of the few who saw the crisis coming, and successfully took actions to avoid losses. We have just added him into our List of Gurus. John Hussman owns 132 stocks with a total value of $3.5 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells during the third quarter.


John Hussman buys WalMart Stores Inc., Panera Bread Company, Network Appliance Inc., ConocoPhillips, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., QLogic Corp., Applera Corp. Applied Biosystems Group, Ecolab Inc., DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., Valero Energy Corp., Schlumberger Ltd., Agilent Technologies Inc., Tiffany & Co., Yahoo! Inc., Dell Inc., Microchip Technology Inc., Nabors Industries Ltd., Tesoro Corp., Xilinx Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc. New, Analog Devices Inc., St. Jude Medical Inc., Bank of America Corp., Autodesk Inc., DeVry Inc., Frontier Oil Corp., J. Crew Group Inc., Health Management Associates Inc., Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc., DPL Inc., ViroPharma Inc., Pepco Holdings Inc., Sonic Corp., Scana Corp., Consolidated Edison Inc., Barclays PLC, Pinnacle West Capital Corp., DTE Energy Company, Ameren Corp., Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cell Genesys Inc., Avant Immunotherapeutics Inc., sells Adobe Systems Inc., The Men's Wearhouse Inc., ON Semiconductor Corp., Oracle Corp., Pediatrix Medical Group Inc., The Procter & Gamble Company, Sybase Inc., Sysco Corp., The TJX Companies Inc., MettlerToledo International Inc., McDonald's Corp., Advanced Energy Industries Inc., Biogen Idec Inc, BJ's Wholesale Club Inc., BT Group plc, Hasbro Inc., Hologic Inc., Illinois Tool Works Inc., KLATencor Corp., United Technologies Corp. during the 3-months ended 09/30/2008, according to the most recent filings of his investment company .



New Purchases: A, ABI, ADI, ADSK, AEE, AVAN, BAC, BCS, BRCD, BRK-A, CEGE, COP, DELL, DPL, DTE, DV, DWA, ECL, ED, FTO, HMA, JCG, MCHP, NBR, NTAP, PGNX, PNRA, PNW, POM, QLGC, SCG, SCHN, SLB, SONC, STJ, TIF, TSO, VLO, VPHM, WMT, XLNX, YHOO,


Added Positions: ABX, ADM, AEM, AMGN, AMZN, APOL, ARO, ARTC, AU, AZN, BBY, BVN, CHKP, CL, CMG, FXE, GG, GOLD, GPN, INTC, KO, KSS, MATK, MSFT, NEM, NFLX, NKE, NVDA, RIMM, SBUX, SMTC, SNY, SYNA, WAT,


Reduced Positions: FXY, KG, NTGR,


Sold Out: ADBE, AEIS, BIIB, BJ, BT, HAS, HOLX, ITW, KLAC, MCD, MTD, MW, ONNN, ORCL, PDX, PG, SY, SYY, TJX, UTX,





For the details of John Hussman's stock buys and sells, go to http://www.gurufocus.com/StockBuy.php?GuruName=John+Hussman