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China EV Leader BYD Enters India’s Passenger Car Market As Part Of Global Push
BYD is expanding beyond China. BYD BYD, one of the world’s largest EV makers, this week entered India’s passenger car market as part of larger push to more than double its distributor network in the w...
PVC Prices Are Falling. Why Warren Buffett Should Be Worried.
One thing leads to the other. Rising interest rates pummel housing. Lumber prices fall, some 60% this year. And, notes energy research firm and investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt, PVC—the plastic th...
Warren Buffett Is Sitting On A Goldmine As Omaha Home Prices Set To Rise In 2023
Warren Buffett stands to pocket $80,000 in equity on his Omaha home over the next year. (Photo by … [+] Paul Harris/Getty Images) Getty Images It’s about time Warren Buffett caught a break...
Buffett’s Likely Successor Buys $68 Million of Berkshire Stock
Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Greg Abel, the likely successor to CEO Warren Buffett, bought about $68 million of the company’s shares last Thursday in what appears to be his first purchases of Berk...
Buffett’s Berkshire Might Have Bought More Occidental Stock After the Dip
A recent decline in Occidental Petroleum share price could have prompted Berkshire Hathaway to add to its large stake in the big energy company. Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK.A, BRK.B) holds 188.4 m...
Oversold Conditions For McDonald’s
Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a tec...
Should You Buy Or Avoid Tesla, Apple And These Other 18 Large Stocks?
Apple logo at headquarters of Apple Computers in Cupertino, California, (Photo by Smith … [+] Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Getty Images The largest stocks dominate the headlines and investors’ ...
Berkshire Made Big Bets on Citi, HP, and Paramount Stock. They Look Like Losers.
Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said his company often buys equities before a market hits bottom. AFP via Getty Images When asked about Berkshire Hathaway ’s investment success at...
Berkshire Looks Like a Loser with 3 Big Buys
Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said his company often buys equities before a market hits bottom. AFP via Getty Images When asked about Berkshire Hathaway ’s investment success at...
This Silicon Valley Tycoon Has Lost Half His Net Worth This Year
Silicon Valley founders and CEOs have had a rough year so far, losing billions of dollars in net worth. Technology company billionaires make up 6 of the top 10 biggest losers so far this year, with lo...
5 Buffett Stocks Trading Near 52-Week Lows
Summary Charter CommunicationsCHTR , MarkelMKL , HPHPQ , Celanese and U.S. BancorpTBBK have fallen over the past year. As the end of the third quarter approaches, a handful of Warren Buffett (Trades, ...
Cash Is No Longer Trash. T-Bill Yields Near 4%.
Text size After years of yielding near zero, cash is suddenly a better investment. Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images Cash is no longer trash. For the first time in 15 years, investors can get nearly 4%...
Occidental Stock Jumps As Warren Buffett Adds to $16 Billon Stake
Occidental Petroleum (OXY) shares jumped higher Monday after billionaire investor Warren Buffett added to both his stake in the oil major and speculation that he may be preparing to buy at least hal...
BYD’s Thailand Factory Plan Underscores How China’s EV Industry Is Going Global
Warren Buffett-backed BYD was the world’s top maker of electric vehicles in the first half of 2022. … [+] Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Wednesday’s annou...
Chinese Tech Titans Are Losing Their Global Backers
Ma ”Pony” Huateng, cofounder of Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Photo by Jerome Favre/Bloomberg) © 2015 Bloomberg Finance LP China’s biggest technology companies, which had generated rich returns f...
RSI Alert: Dominos Pizza Now Oversold
Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a tec...
California’s Lithium Rush For EV Batteries Hinges On Taming Toxic, Volcanic Brine
The southeast tip of California’s Salton Sea is home to 11 geothermal power plants that turn hot volcanic brine into clean electricity. Getty Images The Salton Sea region has one of the world’s ...
BYD Chief Suffers $2 Billion Wealth Drop After Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Cuts Stake
Wang Chuanfu, cofounder and chairman of BYD, attends a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on March 28, 2018. Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg Wang Chuanfu, the cofounder and chief executive of BYD, saw his...
Warren Buffett-Backed BYD’s Profit Tripled In First Half As EV Sales Boom
A BYD Co. logo on a Yuan sports utility vehicle (SUV) at the company’s showroom in Beijing, China, … [+] on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Fi...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Utility Business Highlights the Warren Buffett Magic
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...
Should You Consider These 3 Department Retailer Stocks?
. The global department stores market size was valued at $117.2 billion in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.1% from 2022 to 2028. A department store offers t...
Buffett Is a Buyer of Occidental. Here’s Why You Should Too
Occidental Petroleum (OXY) shares are down about 2.7% on Monday, but are off the session lows. Today’s action follows the stock’s explosive finish to last week, as shares rallied 9.9% on Friday. The...
Berkshire Hathaway Could Owe Billions on Stock Gains Under the New Tax Law
Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, likes holding favorite stocks forever. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has long said that his favorite i...
How To Duck Market Crashes: The Buffett-Shiller Method
Pay less attention to stock prices and more to what your portfolio companies are earning. Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway (Photo by Chip Somodevilla) Getty Images Is...
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...
The Oil Surplus Could Persist. Expect Prices to Fall
Text size This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Expect Oil Prices to Fall THINK Economic and Finan...
Warren Buffett Not Expected to Bid for Control of Occidental Following Stake Boost
Warren Buffett’s bid to boost his big stake in Occidental Petroleum even further isn’t expected to serve as a prelude to a full takeover of the resurgent energy company by the widely watched billionai...
Warren Buffett Ramps Up Occidental And Apple Stakes, Dumps Verizon
Summary The guru did not add any new positions during the quarter. He sold out of Verizon and Royalty Pharma. Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio)’s multibillion-dollar conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway ...