Berkshire Nears 20% Stake in Occidental Petroleum After New Buys

Text size Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett has been steadily adding to his company’s position in Occidental for months. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Berkshire Hathaway continues to add its stake in Occid...

3M Earplugs Fight Stems From Self-Made Legal Battle

A long-running legal battle over allegedly defective earplugs made by 3M arose after the company initiated a separate dispute against a smaller competitor, court documents showed. 3M’s effort to prote...

GE’s Three-Way Split Is Near. What the New Companies Will Be Called.

Text size GE’s aviation business will become GE Aerospace. Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images General Electric is undertaking an epic transformation under the leadership of CEO Larry Culp—the ...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys More Occidental Stock

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased more Occidental Petroleum stock. AFP via Getty Images Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed the purchase of another large block of...

GE Shelves Wind Turbine Blade Plant. Renewable Energy Has Been a Tough Go.

Text size Renewable power has been a tough business for GE for years. Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP via Getty Images General Electric is scrapping plans for a wind turbine blade plant in the U.K. Shares o...

BYD Stock Is Sinking. Warren Buffett May Be One Reason Why.

Text size BYD is a major manufacturer of electric vehicles. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Shares in BYD sank on Tuesday amid speculation that high-profile investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was selli...

Will Coinbase go bankrupt? Crypto CEO says there is ‘no risk of bankruptcy’

““We have no risk of bankruptcy.”” That’s a quote from Brian Armstrong, chief executive and co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase COIN, -10.63%. In a series of tweets on May 10, Arms...

GE Stock Gets a Big Cut but Investors Shrug It Off

Text size GE wind turbines. Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP via Getty Images The stock market is said to be forward looking. That seems to be the case headed into second-quarter-earnings season. Stocks are ...

These companies hopped on the crypto train when times were booming. Which are exposed in a downturn?

During recent cryptocurrency booms, companies have been quick to jump on the trend, whether by reorienting their entire businesses around the buzzy theme, building meaningful crypto features alongside...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Steve Pope/Getty Images Text size Warren Buffett is snapping up stocks, buying an insurer at a bargain price, and exciting investors in Berkshire Hathaway . B...

Berkshire Hathaway Director Ron Olson Scooped Up Shares

Text size Attorney Ron Olson walks to a session at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in July 2021. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A longtime director of Berkshire Hathaway snapped up the stock...

A GE Bear Looks Into 2023. He Doesn’t Like What He Sees.

Text size The General Electric logo is displayed on the outside of jet-engine test tunnels. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg We are in the second half of the year, and 2022 earnings estimates will start to giv...

Berkshire Holds Over 18% of Occidental After Fresh Buys

Text size Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett likes Occidental and has been adding to the company’s stake since the holding was disclosed in early March. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshi...

Berkshire Hathaway Seems Headed for a 20% Stake in Occidental

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett likes energy companies. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway has rapidly increased its stake in Occidental Petroleum to 17.4...

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...

Russia Takes Control of International LNG Project

Russia took control of the international consortium behind the giant Sakhalin-2 oil-and-natural-gas project, handing it to a new Russian entity that will effectively give the Kremlin say over which fo...

Berkshire Holds 16.4% of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Purchase

Text size Buffett likes American companies, and Occidental gets the vast bulk of its energy production domestically. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to add to its stake i...

Berkshire Hathaway Stock Hit Hard in June. Warren Buffett Is Probably Unfazed.

Text size Berkshire has scaled back its stock repurchase program this year, and that may be sending a message that CEO Warren Buffett doesn’t view the stock as being so cheap. Bill Pugliano/Gett...

Berkshire Hathaway Holds 16.3% of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Buys

Text size Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway purchased more than $500 million of Occidental Petroleum stock recently and now holds a ...

Bitcoin crash: These three metrics show how bad the carnage is, and what to expect next

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’ll walk you through what’s going on in the current bear market. As usual, find me on T...

Buffett Filing Indicates Berkshire Was a Light Buyer of Its Shares This Quarter

Text size Warren Buffett has slowed stock repurchases as Berkshire’s share price has risen. Steve Pope/Getty Images A filing Wednesday by Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett indicates the comp...

Warren Buffett gives away $4 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock as bidding for his last ever luncheon hits $3 million

As bidding for the last-ever chance to lunch with Berkshire Hathaway’s chairman and CEO Warren Buffett reached the $3 million mark, the investing legend himself announced a $4 billion giveaway in stoc...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Equity Portfolio Is Down An Estimated $65 Billion So Far in This Quarter

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway wasn’t a buyer of its own stock in April, but that might have changed with the market’s recent drop. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortun...

Cosmetics Maker Revlon Nears Chapter 11 Filing

Revlon Inc. is preparing to file for chapter 11 protection as soon as next week after struggling for years with too much debt, stiff competition in the cosmetics business and more recent inflation and...

Ethereum close to its major upgrade, but why has it fallen more than bitcoin?

This article has been updated to correct the identification of Citadel Securities. Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m w...

Tesla Needs Batteries. This Buffett-Backed EV Maker to Supply Them ‘Very Soon.’

Text size BYD launched its Blade battery in 2020. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg BYD shares rose on Wednesday after the Chinese electric vehicle maker said it was preparing to supply batteries to Tesla. “We are...

Ethereum could ‘take over everything’, and there won’t be a multi-chain future, says EY’s blockchain leader

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch, and I’ll walk you through the latest an...

After 2 stormy years of ‘moonshot’ house prices, don’t hold out hope for a major correction. Why COVID-era property values may be here to stay.

There is hope for first-time buyers looking to enter the U.S. housing market, but observers say they will have to be patient. After a two-year surge in home prices during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ho...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Is Taking a $30 Billion Hit on Apple

Text size Apple makes up 40% of Berkshire Hathaway’s equity portfolio. Dreamstime Warren Buffett loves Apple , but Berkshire Hathaway’s big holding in the iPhone maker is hurting: Apple shares a...

Why this investor who paid $650,000 to lunch with Buffett isn’t buying or selling stocks right now

It’s 13-F season, and you’re not going to find many like Guy Spier’s Aquamarine Capital in the first quarter —- zero buys, zero sells. “Pathetic, isn’t it,” quips Spier in an interview. Spier says he ...

You bought. They sold. Meet some of the insiders who unloaded $35 billion in stock amid the tech IPO bonanza before it tanked.

A year ago, Heather Hasson and Catherine “Trina” Spear traveled from Santa Monica, Calif., to New York to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The co–chief executives of FIGS, an onli...

Which of Buffett’s bank stocks might make you the most money?

This is the time of the quarter when investors get to see what changes Warren Buffett and the management team at Berkshire Hathaway have made to the conglomerate’s stock portfolio. The big splash in B...