At the Berkshire Hathaway meeting, Warren Buffett aims to assure shareholders

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...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Spent Billions on Chevron. This Might Be Why.

Text size Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images There is a cottage industry on Wall Street predicting what would Warren would buy. That, of course, refers to Berkshire Hathawa y (ticker: BRK.B) C...

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: 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...

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market, you may have seen more than one article suggesting Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s investing style was no longer valid.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...

Ukraine war, inflation and need for higher interest rates creating ‘unprecedented’ situation, says Jamie Dimon

JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon said the Western world faces “challenges at every turn” but the U.S. economy remains strong, according to his annual letter to shareholders. JPMorgan’s JPM, +0...

Warren Buffett Has Amassed Over 90% of His Wealth Since He Turned 65

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images Who says you can’t get really rich when you’re old? One of the Warren Buffett’s remarkable achievements is that he has generated over 90% of his weal...

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub Buys Stock After Warren Buffett Did

Text size Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Occidental Petroleum has had quite a year, and CEO Vicki Hollub just bought shares of the energy explorer on the open mar...

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 Deal for Alleghany Is Great for Berkshire, So-So for Alleghany

Berkshire Hathaway ’s agreement to buy insurer Alleghany for $11.6 billion looks like an excellent deal for Berkshire, but only a so-so one for Alleghany. Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK. A and BRK. B...

Stock Market Today: Dow Dips, Boeing Slides, and Oil Rises With Ukraine in Focus

Text size The S&P 500 saw its best week since November 2020 last week. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Stocks weren’t doing all that much Monday as markets digest last week’s large gains and the pri...

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...

Cash-Rich Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, and Alphabet Should Gain From Higher Rates

Text size Apple could be earning $4 billion more on its cash by 2023 Sean Gallup/Getty Images With its enormous cash reserves now earning next to nothing, Berkshire Hathaway could be one of the bigger...

Berkshire Hathaway Again Boosts Its Stake in Occidental Petroleum

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to add to its large stake in Occidental Petroleum in recent days and now holds a $7.2 billio...

Warren Buffett Runs Berkshire Hathaway Like It’s the 1960s.

In some important respects, CEO Warren Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway like it’s the 1960s, when he took control of the company. CEO and board pay remain at 1960s levels. Top executives are paid entir...

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 ...

Stock Market Today: Dow Falls, Gold and Oil Surge, Bed Bath & Beyond Soars

Text size Gold prices marched higher Monday, as investors fled to havens amid declines in stocks. DAVID GRAY/AFP/Getty Images Stocks plunged Monday and investors sought havens as oil prices hit the hi...

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’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Big Block of Occidental Petroleum Stock

Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks to the press as he arrives at the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshi...

Warren Buffett’s Preferred Equity Allocation Is 100%

Warren Buffett’s preferred equity allocation is 100%, and he has adopted that strategy both personally and at Berkshire Hathaway in a way that is radically different from other companies in the insura...

Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Finds ‘Little That Excites Us’ in the Stock Market

Berkshire Hathaway finds “little that excites us” in the stock market, CEO Warren Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter released Saturday morning. “That’s largely because of a truism: Long-ter...

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...