OMAHA, Neb. — At the start of the Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, -2.55% BRK.A, -2.94% annual meeting on Saturday, chairman and chief executive officer Warren Buffett wasted no time speaking to the question...
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Warren Buffett Says Markets Have Become a ‘Gambling Parlor’
OMAHA, Neb.—As recently as February, Warren Buffett lamented he wasn’t finding much out there that was worth buying. That is no longer the case. After a yearslong deal drought, Mr. Buffett’s Berkshir...
‘Just say no’ to bitcoin, says Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger
Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger had some advice for a young attendee at Berkshire’s annual meeting on Saturday. “When you have your own retirement account, and your friendl...
Opinion: Berkshire and Buffett have 5 words for sellers who want their money: ‘Take it or leave it’
As fans flock this weekend to Omaha, Neb. for Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting hosted by Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about. The answer: ...
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are once again outperforming the stock market. Apple is one big reason but these other 10 stocks also helped
During the long, tech-driven bull market, you may have seen more than one article suggesting Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s investing style was no longer valid. With Buffett leading the congl...
Berkshire Hathaway Is Likely to Buy Alleghany. No Rival Bids Emerged.
Text size Alleghany’s noninsurance operations include a toy business and a steel fabricator. Dreamstime It looks like Berkshire Hathaway will succeed in buying the insurer Alleghany for $11.6 bi...
Warren Buffett Says He Is in Great Health With No Plans to Step Down as CEO
Text size Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Warren Buffett says he is in excellent health and has no plans to step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway as he eagerly anticipate...
Warren Buffett Showed Tough Negotiation Skills in Alleghany Deal
Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images Warren Buffett is known as a tough negotiator, and that was apparent in Berkshire Hathaway ’s negotiations to buy the insurer Alleghany when the Berk...
Alibaba Stock Stake Slashed by Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal
Text size Charlie Munger attends the annual Berkshire shareholders meeting in Omaha in 2019. JOHANNES EISELE / AFP / Getty Images Daily Journal , which Charlie Munger had served as chairman until rece...
Warren Buffett Loves Cheap Stocks. The HP Purchase Is Proof.
Text size Warren Buffett. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Warren Buffett is at heart a value investor. Berkshire Hathaway ’s recent investment activity, including the purchase of more th...
The stock market is behaving a lot like it did during the Iraq war. Here’s the future if the pattern continues.
History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme. The Iraq war of 2003 doesn’t have many parallels to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, other than perhaps global unpopularity. But there seems to be at least one ...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes 11% Stake in HP
Text size Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Berkshire Hathaway has accumulated an 11.4% stake worth $4.2 billion in HP Inc. , the maker of personal computers and printers, ...
A big shift is under way for markets, and old Warren Buffett shareholder letters point to which companies will survive
Given a war and inflation have marked the start of 2022, investors would be forgiven for holding their breath over the rest of the year’s offerings. Our call of the day from a team at Saxo Bank sees a...
Warren Buffett Does Deal Making Differently. Alleghany Acquisition Shows How.
Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images When it comes to acquisitions, Warren Buffett does things differently, and Berkshire Hathaway ’s deal on Monday for Alleghany illustrates his unique ...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway strikes $11.6 billion deal for reinsurer Alleghany Corp.
Warren Buffett picked the industry he arguably knows best, insurance, for his first major deal in two years. Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, -0.74% BRK.A, -1.05% struck an $11.6 billion, all-cash deal to bu...
Berkshire Hathaway Bought Back About $2 Billion of Stock This Year
Text size Warren Buffett. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway bought back about $2 billion of stock in the first quarter through early March, Barron’s estimates. Our estimate is based ...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Has $5 Billion Stake in Occidental Petroleum
Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway owns a 9.8% stake in Occidental Petroleum worth $5.1 billion after furious buying activity in s...
Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Paid 1% of All U.S. Corporate Tax Receipts
Berkshire Hathaway has the largest amount of domestic infrastructure assets of any American company and paid $3.3 billion in federal taxes in 2021—or nearly 1% of all corporate tax receipts—CEO Warren...
Opinion: Warren Buffett’s investing prowess will go on forever after researchers cracked his investing code
If you’re an investor in Berkshire Hathaway Inc., your performance need not suffer when Warren Buffett stops running the company. That’s according to researchers who claim to have created a stock-pick...