Earnings at Berkshire Hathaway ’s big utility business have risen more than 30-fold since Warren Buffett bought the core of that operation in 2000, illustrating the power of the CEO’s patient approach...
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Warren Buffett’s Likely Successor Owns Little Stock in Berkshire Hathaway
Text size Greg Abel, center, during a shareholders shopping day ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in April. Dan Brouillette/Bloomberg Ownership of Berkshire Hathaway stock is a big part o...
Berkshire Hathaway Can Acquire Up to 50% of Occidental Petroleum, Filing Says
Text size Berkshire Hathaway currently has a 20% stake in Occidental. Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg Occidental Petroleum stock jumped Friday after Berkshire Hathaway got approval from the Federal E...
WeWork’s Adam Neumann secures millions in funding for his new company Flow
Adam Neumann is back. The billionaire businessman who founded office-sharing company WeWork Inc. WE, -4.70% is back with another company called Flow, a residential real estate company attempting to ad...
Duke Energy Sees a Bright Future for Nuclear Power
I figured I’d put the uranium rods near the basketball hoop. Water from the nearby garden hose would serve as both the coolant and the moderator, slowing the neutrons enough to keep my chain reaction ...
Tesla and 9 Other Companies That Would Take a Hit From a 15% Minimum Corporate Tax
Text size Nvidia has had a 4.7% tax rate and average pretax profit of $4.8 billion. Here, a cryptocurrency mining rig is equipped with Nvidia Geforce GPU at the Thailand Crypto Expo 2022. Andre Malerb...
Senate Passes Climate Bill. The Rush to Renewable Energy Is On.
The climate and tax package passed by the Senate on Sunday will unlock around $400 billion in funding for clean energy and accelerate a historic shift in how the world is powered. Along with a paralle...
GE Is Building the Electricity Grid of the Future. Here’s What We Found on a Tour.
Text size GE wants to be a player in the electricity grid of the future. That will benefit its coming Vernova business. Brandon Bell/Getty Images NISKAYUNA, N. Y–In General Electric ’s sprawling resea...
Berkshire Buys Buffett Successor’s Stake in Prized Utility Unit
Text size Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway bought a 1% stake held by Vice Chairman Greg Abel in the company’s big electric utility business for $870 million in cash, hig...
10 Companies That Would Take a Hit From a 15% Minimum Corporate Tax
Text size Nvidia has had a 4.7% tax rate and average pretax profit of $4.8 billion. Here, a cryptocurrency mining rig is equipped with Nvidia Geforce GPU at the Thailand Crypto Expo 2022. Andre Malerb...
America’s New Energy Crisis – WSJ
America is wrestling with the worst energy crisis in nearly five decades, a period of high prices and limited supply. What makes this crisis different than the troubles that roiled the country in the ...
Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard, but many are poised for rapid growth. Here are 15 expected to shine through 2024
In December, we listed analysts’ favorite semiconductor stocks for 2022. That hasn’t turned out well. But after chipmakers’ stocks have been hammered, the group is now trading at “normal-level valuati...
Tesla Is Doing to Car Makers What Apple Did to Nokia. Will History Repeat?
Text size Volkswagen’s software delays underscore why Tesla will be so hard to catch, according to one analyst. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tesla is disrupting the car business, a little like how A...
Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling
Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...
These 10 stocks from a sector that is a bear-market bulwark have upside potential of up to 30%
During times of uncertainty, it can help to look at what happened during other down cycles for stocks. True, we don’t know when the stock market will hit bottom during this cycle, or if it already has...
How to save money on summer cooling bills as energy prices rise
A pedestrian uses an umbrella to get some relief from the sun as she walks past a sign displaying the temperature on June 20, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. Ralph Freso | Getty Images Tips for efficient en...
U.S. Natural-Gas Exporter Completes First Deal With German Buyer
Venture Global LNG Inc. has struck the first binding deals by a U.S. natural-gas exporter to supply natural gas to a German company, as the European nation turns to America to help replace supplies fr...
Burns & McDonnell Navigates Passage Between Electric Revolution And Supply Chain Crisis
She keeps a close watch on a transmission line. Burns & McDonnell The electric power industry is going through the greatest revolution since its founding by Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, George Wes...
Strategist who nailed the recent S&P 500 top says three things are needed for a market bottom
Wariness is in order after the S&P 500’s bear-market finish and a potential 75 basis-point Fed hike just one day away. Gains for stock futures and a potential bounce are fading fast. Morgan Stanle...
Mexico Takes Aim at Private Companies, Threatening Decades of Economic Growth
MONTERREY, Mexico—For the past 20 years, a 1,100-megawatt power plant owned by Spain’s Iberdrola SA outside Mexico’s industrial capital has kept the lights on for scores of companies such as brewing g...
‘I’m being taken advantage of by my own husband’: I pay all the bills and gave the down payment for our home, and all he does is buy stuff and contribute to his 401(k)
I’m being taken advantage of by my own husband. I have been married for almost 10 years. When my husband and I were first married, he convinced me to stop working after the first year or so, which I r...
Chinese Wind-Turbine Companies Seek Global Growth as Western Rivals Struggle
TARANTO, Italy—Chinese wind-turbine makers have grown big on the back of their rapidly growing home market. Now they want to expand abroad, putting further pressure on Western wind-turbine makers, whi...
Nvidia’s ‘China Syndrome’: Is the stock melting down?
Like the nuclear reactor in the 1979 film “The China Syndrome,” Nvidia Corp.’s share price and sales forecast have been melting down, and a sales ban of artificial-intelligence chips to China is the l...