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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Posts Fourth-Quarter Earnings Fall
Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings declined 8% in the fourth quarter to $6.7 billion after taxes, hurt by a drop in profits at the company’s railroad business and a decline in the U.S. dollar. Exc...
Warren Buffett Muses on Berkshire Hathaway’s Future in Annual Letter
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is looking to shape the company for when he’s gone. At a time when other famous conglomerates like General Electric (ticker: GE) are splitting up into multiple mo...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Cleared to Buy as Much as Half of Occidental’s Shares
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has the green light from regulators to purchase as much as 50% of Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s shares, after seeking approval for such a transaction in July. In a r...
What Stocks Are Moving Monday? Tesla, Palantir, First Solar and More.
Text size Tesla shares rise early Monday. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Stock futures were trading higher Monday with investors assessing how aggressive the Federal Reserve will be in its ef...
Nikola to Buy Battery Maker Romeo Power for $144 Million
Listen to article (2 minutes) Electric-truck startup Nikola said it has agreed to buy battery-technology company Romeo Power in an all-stock deal that values Romeo at roughly $144 million. Nikola said...
China’s Auto Sales Are Booming. Can the Rebound Last?
Text size China’s auto market is showing a robust rebound. Here: a BYD Tang vehicle at the company’s showroom in Beijing. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg While the recent recovery in much of China’s ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys More Occidental Petroleum Stock
Text size Warren Buffett hip Somodevilla/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to buy more shares of Occidental Petroleum in recent days, purchasing a total of about $580 million of stock on Wedne...
Occidental Stock Rises on Record $4.7 Billion Quarterly Profit
Text size Occidental Petroleum has a huge footprint in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Shares of Occidental Petroleum , one of the biggest producers of U.S. onshore oil and ga...
Dow Futures Rise After April’s Sharp Selloff as Wall Street Looks to the Fed
Text size Photo credit: NYSE Stock futures traded modestly higher Monday as investors tried to shake off April’s broad selloff ahead of an expected aggressive move by the Federal Reserve to tame infla...
A Lesson About Wealth From Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human
Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is the world’s richest human. Patrick Pleul/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is worth a cool $274 billion. Now, a former auto analyst-turned-market research...
Tesla Beat All the Trillion-Dollar Stocks. Berkshire Hathaway Did Even Better.
Text size The new Tesla factory in Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images What do Elon Musk and Warren Buffett have in common? Shares of both of their megacapitalization companies posted gains for the firs...
Berkshire Hathaway to Acquire Reinsurer Alleghany for $11.6 Billion
Text size Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy Alleghany shares for $848.02 a share in cash, or a tot...
Berkshire-Backed StoneCo Issues a Bullish Outlook. The Stock Is Soaring.
Text size Dreamstime Shares of Brazilian payment processor StoneCo were skyrocketing Friday after Citi upgraded the stock, citing an attractive valuation and the company’s strong outlook for the first...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Market Cap Climbs. It Could Soon Overtake Tesla.
Text size Berkshire Hathaway currently is the sixth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. Photograph by Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Tesla is the fifth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. But Warren ...
Qualcomm, Nvidia Are Top Picks Among Semiconductor Stocks, Analyst Says
Text size For investors looking for near-term protection, Credit Suisse analysts said wireless-device specialist Qualcomm was their top pick. Dreamstime Semiconductor stocks have fallen far enough to ...