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Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon, Bought $10 Billion of Financials
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...
Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon Stock in Q1, Bought $10 Billion of Financials
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...
4 Takeaways From the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting
Text size Warren Buffett. Drew Angerer/Getty Images OMAHA, Neb.—The 2022 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting took place in person on Saturday, with tens of thousands of Warren Buffett fans ...
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...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger Takes Another Swipe at Robinhood
Charlie Munger’s opinion of Robinhood HOOD -2.82% Markets Inc. hasn’t improved in the past year. If anything, it has become more negative. “It was pretty obvious that something like that was going to ...
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...
Berkshire Hathaway: Live Coverage of the Annual Shareholders Meeting
OMAHA, Neb.—The Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting is back in person for 2022, after a two-year pandemic hiatus moved the so-called “Woodstock for Capitalists” online. Warren Buffett addre...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Buffett Gave HP Stock a Boost. Why It’s Still a Buy.
Text size Shares of HP jumped 15% this past week after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a large stake. Why the stock still looks cheap. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg When Bill Hewlett and Dave ...
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, ...
Value Investing Is Back. But How Do You Choose the Right ETF?
Value investing is coming back. Over the past decade, growth stocks have outpaced value shares, which usually have lots of tangible assets relative to their market value. In those 10 years, the S&...
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...
Why the Postwar 1940s May Tell Us More About Our Inflation Than the ‘70s
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size As inflation stirs, economists have fixated on the 1970s. That’s a mistake, says Guggenheim’s chief investment officer, Scott Minerd, who believes the causes of t...
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 ...
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...