Warren Buffett

 NY Here, highlights of the week's activity recorded by the Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, which counts the layoffs at all the nation's 500 largest corporations. Warren Buffett handed out pink slips this week. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK - news - people ...

 NEW YORK Warren Buffett, through holding company Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRK - news - people ), controls more than 50 companies that had a combined $118 billion in sales in 2008. He ranks fifth. Throughout the credit crisis, Buffett injected much-needed ...

That firm's alliance with Kiewit Constructors -- yes, Buffett fans, the company that cohabitates with Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) at 3555 Farnam -- signals to me that perhaps this is more than a pipe dream. The entrance of B&W, ...

 NY Of course he's talking his book here, but Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) CEO Warren Buffett remains extremely positive on Wells Fargo (WFC), the bank in which he owns a 7.2% stake. Speaking at his annual shareholder meeting, he said that when the company ...

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We have so many extra levels of safety we follow at Berkshire. We got a call on Goldman on a Wednesday - that couldn't have been done the previous Wednesday or the next Wednesday. We were faced with opportunity-cost - and we sold something that under ...

By Sheldon Liber There has been a lot of speculation about what BRK might do next. Warren Buffett himself has said a large acquisition is in the cards, not surprising given Berkshire's huge cash reserves. Could it be that Buffett would make this large an acquisition?