Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s cash hoard jumped to a record at $167.6 billion in the fourth quarter as the conglomerate struggled to find deals ...

A New York court ruled against Alibaba in a lawsuit brought by a U.S. toymaker over alleged counterfeit sales of Squishmallows on Alibaba's...

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan said Kelly Toys, whose parent Jazwares is owned by billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hat...

Squishmallows joined Warren Buffett's business empire two years after Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian and others helped make the plush stuffed to...

In 2014, seeking help in expanding, the Zeberskys sold a stake in Jazwares to Alleghany, which took a majority stake two years later. Terms...

The acquisition sparked Buffett’s love affair with “float.” His biographer Alice Schroeder remarks: “To someone like Buffett, having other ...

Fourth-quarter operating profit fell 8% due to foreign currency losses and lower gains from investments. Berkshire also bulked up its cash ...

Berkshire also finally exited Wells Fargo & Co, a 33-year-old investment that Buffett soured on after finding it too slow to address revela...

Following the purchases, Berkshire owned about 142.3 million Occidental shares worth approximately $8.8 billion, plus $10 billion of prefer...

Buffett said Berkshire, long faulted for holding too much cash, boosted its combined stakes in oil company Chevron Corp and "Call of Duty" ...

Buffett, 91, has long objected to the costs of doing business on Wall Street. He rarely uses investment banks at Berkshire, relying on 98-y...

Shares of HP closed up $5.15, or 14.8%, at $40.06, after earlier rising to $41.46.

The investment gives Berkshire a roughly 11.4% stake in HP, worth about $4.2 billion based on the personal computing and printing company's...

Buffett is a known proponent of buying what he understands, and if there is one industry he knows very well, it is the insurance sector. So...

"Berkshire will be the perfect permanent home for Alleghany, a company that I have closely observed for 60 years," Buffett, who has run Ber...

Alleghany adds to Berkshire's already large insurance portfolio, which includes Geico auto insurance, General Re reinsurance and a unit tha...

Stock splits have become less common over the years. But rapidly progressing companies still announce a split every once in a while for sev...