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...

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...

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...

EV Stock Workhorse Has Tumbled. CEO Rich Dauch Bought Up Shares.

Text size A Workhorse vehicle Courtesy Workhorse Workhorse Group stock hit a nearly two-year low a few weeks ago, and CEO Rich Dauch and executive Stan March just bought up shares of the electric-vehi...

Anaplan Stock Surges on Deal to Be Bought by Thoma Bravo for $10.7 Billion

Text size Photograph by Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Anaplan , a provider of business-planning software, agreed to be acquired by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo for $66 a share, or $10.7 billion. The offe...

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...

Kohl’s Is a Takeover Target. What That Means for the Stock.

Kohl’s stock soared on reports of potential takeover offers that could value the company at more than $9 billion. Getty Images Text size Kohl’s investors have been trapped between hopes for a takeout ...

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...

Tesla Stock, Nvidia Were Sold by Retail Traders. Here’s What They Bought.

Text size (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Retail traders were taking a cautious approach by selling stocks like Tesla and Nvidia as the markets gained for a third con...

Nvidia Stock Needs a Catalyst. It Could Get One Next Week.

Text size After rocketing higher in 2021, Nvidia shares have been under pressure in 2022. Remus Rigo/Dreamstime.com Like much of the rest of the stock market, to say nothing of the beaten-down tech se...

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...

American Airlines stock surges toward biggest gain in more than a year after carrier raises revenue outlook

Shares of airline operators enjoyed a broad rally Tuesday, after a number of major carriers raised their revenue guidance, and as a further pullback in crude oil prices helped soothe concerns over ris...

A New Meme-Stock Frenzy Led AMC to Gold Mine Stake

Day traders looking to capitalize on commodity price volatility catalyzed a chain reaction that ended with movie theater giant AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.’s unusual deal to take a stake in a gold-...

GE Shows Why Stock Buybacks Aren’t Always as Good as Dividends

Text size GE’s net debt now amounts to 2.5 times Ebitda, compared with an average of 2 times for industrial companies in the S&P 500. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images News that General Elec...

Constellation Energy Is a Buy at Goldman Sachs. Here’s Why.

Text size Constellation is one of the largest carbon-free energy generators in the country, relying on a mix of hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear energy. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Shares of Constellation...

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...

8 Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week

Text size Colgate-Palmolive raised its stock dividend this week. Rene Van Den Berg/Dreamstime.com Colgate-Palmolive , Dick’s Sporting Goods , and Applied Materials were among the large U.S. companies ...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Holds $6.9 Billion of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Buys

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued its aggressive purchases of the shares of Occidental Petroleum this week, lifting its stake...

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 ...

Rivian Stock Slumps After Earnings. Wall Street Says Buy the Dip Of Course.

Text size Courtesy Rivian If we learned anything from Rivian Automotive earnings and the reaction of the stock, it’s that the company’s production ramp-up isn’t happening fast enough for the market. W...

Palantir Stock Is Soaring. An Analyst Sees Opportunity in the Dip.

Text size Palantir stock is at “more-reasonable levels,” says an analyst. Dreamstime Palantir stock is trading sharply higher Wednesday after Piper Sandler analyst Weston Twigg launched co...

Amazon Announces 20-for-1 Stock Split and $10 Billion Buyback Plan

Text size Amazon shares are up more than 6% on the news in after-hours trading. Bloomberg Amazon . com shares are moving sharply higher in after-hours trading after the e-commerce and cloud-computing ...

DraftKings CEO: People selling his company’s stock will ‘regret that decision’

DraftKings Inc. DKNG, +3.83% CEO Jason Robins vows that people who are selling his company’s stock will “regret that decision.” Robins wrote this message on Twitter TWTR, +5.03% on Tuesday as DraftKin...

DraftKings CEO Vows to Make Stock Sellers ‘Regret’ Their Decision

Text size Jason Robins, CEO of DraftKings, vowed to make any seller of the company’s stock “regret that decision.” Marco Bello/Bloomberg DraftKings CEO Jason Robins vowed to make any...

How the Federal Reserve could cut its near $9 trillion balance sheet as it fights inflation

Slimming down might be the trickiest part after two years of the pandemic. As the Federal Reserve looks to shrink its near $9 trillion balance sheet to help cool U.S. inflation pegged at a 40-year hig...

Google’s $5.4 billion deal for Mandiant could have ‘a major ripple impact’ within cybersecurity

Alphabet Inc. plans to acquire Mandiant Inc. for roughly $5.4 billion in a deal that could unleash a long-awaited consolidation across the cybersecurity industry. The Google parent company announced T...

Oasis Petroleum and Whiting Are Close to Merging: Report

Text size David McNew/Getty Images Oasis Petroleum and Whiting Petroleum could announce an all-stock merger early this week, The Wall Street Journal reported. A combination of the rival North Dakota s...

Oasis, Whiting Near All-Stock Merger

Oasis Petroleum Inc. and Whiting Petroleum Corp. are close to a deal to merge, according to people familiar with the matter. The all-stock tie-up between the rival North Dakota shale drillers could be...

Chewy Co-Founder Ryan Cohen Takes Large Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond, Pushes for Changes

Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of online pet-products retailer Chewy Inc., CHWY 2.91% has a big stake in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY -3.40% and is pushing the housewares retailer to stream...

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...

Splunk Stock Rises as Hellman & Friedman Takes 7.5% Stake

Text size Dreamstime Private-equity firm Hellman & Friedman has acquired a 7.5% stake in software solutions company Splunk , sending the stock rising Friday. The stake is worth about $1.4 billion,...