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Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway at a glanceWarren Buffett, 94, and his successors will address Berkshire Hathaway shareholders at the annual meeting in Omaha. The event, broadcast on...
Berkshire cash hoard scores another record as earnings gainBerkshire Hathaway Inc., led by Warren Buffett, faces a cash surplus but struggles to find lucrative deals. Operating earnings rose, driven...
Warren Buffett sees no chance of ‘eye-popping’ results with record cashBerkshire Hathaway Inc’s cash hoard jumped to a record at $167.6 billion in the fourth quarter as the conglomerate struggled to find deals ...
New York judge rules against Alibaba in Squishmallows counterfeit sales lawsuitA New York court ruled against Alibaba in a lawsuit brought by a U.S. toymaker over alleged counterfeit sales of Squishmallows on Alibaba's...
How TikTok sensation Squishmallows found Warren BuffettSquishmallows joined Warren Buffett's business empire two years after Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian and others helped make the plush stuffed to...
How TikTok sensation Squishmallows found Warren BuffettIn 2014, seeking help in expanding, the Zeberskys sold a stake in Jazwares to Alleghany, which took a majority stake two years later. Terms...
How Buffett turned a few calls into 3,787,464%The acquisition sparked Buffett’s love affair with “float.” His biographer Alice Schroeder remarks: “To someone like Buffett, having other ...
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway posts record annual operating profitFourth-quarter operating profit fell 8% due to foreign currency losses and lower gains from investments. Berkshire also bulked up its cash ...
Warren Buffett's Berkshire buys Citigroup and several other stocks, slashes VerizonBerkshire also finally exited Wells Fargo & Co, a 33-year-old investment that Buffett soured on after finding it too slow to address revela...
Buffett's Berkshire buys more Occidental shares, boosts stake to 15.2%Following the purchases, Berkshire owned about 142.3 million Occidental shares worth approximately $8.8 billion, plus $10 billion of prefer...
Warren Buffett reveals big investments, rails against Wall St excess at Berkshire meetingBuffett said Berkshire, long faulted for holding too much cash, boosted its combined stakes in oil company Chevron Corp and "Call of Duty" ...
Why Elon Musk's Warren Buffett-like playbook won't work on TwitterThese offers were viewed as fair by their acquisition targets and were backed by committed financing from Berkshire Hathaway. Musk's bid, o...
Warren Buffett needed two weeks for $11.6 bn Alleghany purchase, balked at Goldman feeBuffett, 91, has long objected to the costs of doing business on Wall Street. He rarely uses investment banks at Berkshire, relying on 98-y...
HP shares zoom 15% after Buffett reveals $4.2 billion stakeShares of HP closed up $5.15, or 14.8%, at $40.06, after earlier rising to $41.46.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire reveals stake in HP; shares surge almost 10%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...
Warren Buffett ends 6-year drought of large acquisitions"Berkshire will be the perfect permanent home for Alleghany, a company that I have closely observed for 60 years," Buffett, who has run Ber...
US stocks slip after Powell's hawkish remarks; Meta shares drop over 2%The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 201.94 points, or 0.58%, to 34,552.99, the S&P 500 lost 1.94 points, or 0.04%, to 4,461.18 and the Na...
Warren Buffett deepens insurance bet with $11.6 bln Alleghany dealAlleghany adds to Berkshire's already large insurance portfolio, which includes Geico auto insurance, General Re reinsurance and a unit tha...
Biggest stock splits to look forward to in the USStock splits have become less common over the years. But rapidly progressing companies still announce a split every once in a while for sev...
Warren Buffett follows his own advice in backing off from Unilever bid“The trick in investing is just to sit there and watch pitch after pitch go by and wait for the one right in your sweet spot,” Buffett said...