Berkshire Hathaway made $1.3 billion on financial weapons of mass...
Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett, had a pretty good first quarter.Operating earnings jumped 20% year-over year to $2,583 per share. Analysts were looking for...
View ArticleWarren Buffett has been writing investor letters for 50 years – here are the...
Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders comes out soon, and it's guaranteed to be a must-read.But Buffett's entire archive of letters make for great reading.So what ones should you read?To get a...
View ArticleThe myth of Warren Buffett is one of the greatest misconceptions in the...
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Cullen Roche’s new book “Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance.”Myth #1 – You Too Can Become Warren BuffettFew...
View ArticleWhat investors want billionaire Warren Buffett to tell them today
OMAHA, NEB. — Billionaire Warren Buffett will mark 50 years of leading Berkshire Hathaway the same way he has for years: by spending hours answering any and all questions at the shareholder...
View ArticleHere's how Warren Buffett answered questions about ruthless job cuts and...
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders on Saturday celebrated Warren Buffett's 50th anniversary running the conglomerate, as the billionaire fielded questions about the company and...
View ArticleBUFFETT: Berkshire is NOT 'too big to fail'
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Saturday rejected the idea that Berkshire Hathaway Inc, a sprawling conglomerate he has built over 50 years, has grown so big that it is now too big to fail...
View ArticleThe most important things Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said at...
"Sugar is an enormously helpful substance," Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger said. "It prevents premature softening of the arteries."He's probably joking about that. But the tone is...
View ArticleBuffett says 'no apologies' over the predatory lending accusations at one of...
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Saturday defended his Clayton Homes unit against accusations that the manufactured home seller had preyed on lower-income purchasers with...
View ArticleBUFFETT: Stocks won't look cheap if interest rates rise (BRKA, BRKB, SPY,...
Stocks are definitely on the "high side of valuation," Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett says.Buffett was on CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday morning with Becky Quick in Omaha, Nebraska. Berkshire...
View ArticleBUFFETT: 'I think that bonds are very overvalued'
Warren Buffett is known for his long-term bets on companies he thinks are cheap.Conversely, he is not known for short positions.But in an interview with CNBC's Becky Quick, Buffett revealed one asset...
View ArticleHow Warren Buffett’s misunderstanding of QE left billions on the table (BRKA,...
Stephen Gandel has an interesting piece in Fortune this week on Warren Buffett and interest rates. He writes:Buffett said that he wouldn’t have predicted that interest rates could have stayed this low...
View ArticleWarren Buffett is 'one-quarter Coca-Cola' (KO)
Billionaire Warren Buffett loves Coca-Cola so much he told CNBC that one-quarter of all calories he consumes comes from the soda. “Speaking for myself, I’m 84, literally, one quarter of all the...
View Article3 times Warren Buffett demonstrated his ruthlessness as a businessman (BRKA,...
Warren Buffett usually comes across as a friendly, folksy, and generally approachable person.On occasion, he'll sing a jingle and strum a ukulele to humor Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.He's the...
View ArticleA CARNIVAL AND A CHURCH: I spent 3 days in Omaha chasing Warren Buffett but...
It's amazing that Warren Buffett is alive. Not because he's 84, or because he appears in poor health. In fact it's the opposite: Buffett is chipper and more alert and energized than I am over the...
View ArticleHere's what Warren Buffett told a 7th grader who asked for his advice
Investors from all over the world met in Omaha, Nebraska, this weekend for the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting, where CEO Warren Buffett and his vice chairman, Charlie Munger, fielded...
View ArticleFor a few million dollars, you and 7 friends can have lunch with Warren Buffett
(Reuters) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has once again agreed to have lunch this year with the winner of an auction to benefit a San Francisco charity.The 16th annual auction to benefit Glide,...
View ArticleWARREN BUFFETT: 'I don't see smiles on the faces of people at Whole Foods'...
Whole Foods shares are getting crushed after earnings.The company reported record second quarter sales that still were below investors' expectations, and shares were down as much as 10% in after hours...
View ArticleDan Loeb just threw shade at Warren Buffett at a big hedge fund conference...
Billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb totally threw shade at Warren Buffett at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas. "I love reading Warren Buffett's letters. I love constrasting his words with his...
View ArticleForbes thinks Bill Ackman might be the next Warren Buffett
Legendary activist investor Bill Ackman is trying to change his image from the "corporate raider everyone loves to hate" to something much friendlier, according to this month's Forbes cover story.And...
View ArticleWarren Buffett tells Bill Gates why he's such an optimist (BRKA, BRKB)
Warren Buffett is an optimist. In a video posted on his personal blog Gates Notes, Bill Gates, founder and former CEO of Microsoft and a board member at Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, talks with Buffett...
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