Warren Buffett

By Sheldon Liber Yesterday it was announced very loudly that "my pal Warren" was going to acquire the 77.4% of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (NYSE: BNI) railroad, that Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) does not already own, for $100 per share, offering about a $24 premium to Mondays closing price.

By Mark Fightmaster So, you think you had a rough year? Check out what happened to Warren Buffett, who is ranked the second-richest man in America despite a drop of $10 billion in his personal wealth during the past year. The culprit for Buffet's loss is the 20% decline in Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) stock d...

 NY In what has become an observation for the ages, Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A) Warren Buffett referred to derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction." More recently, George Soros argued that one type of derivative, credit default swaps, ...

 NY Considering that Bill Gates is good friends with Warren Buffett and serves on the board of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), you would think that the Microsoft board would have a pro-shareholder bent to it. But at the end of the day even Bill Gates will not ...

During the height of uncertainty in the financial crisis last fall, Goldman also made headlines by securing a $5 billion investment in preferred stock from famous investor Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A), offering Buffett ...

The legendary Warren Buffett has always said that his favorite holding period is "forever," but anyone who watches the great man and his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) knows that his favorite holding period is not his only holding period. ...

 MD I am a big fan of Warren Buffett. However, I believe it is more advantageous to follow Buffett's stock picks than own Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) for the following reasons: Paul Krugman, the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Price in Economics, in his new, ...

Every year, thousands of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) shareholders and Warren Buffett fans attend the company's annual meeting in Omaha, Neb., and its associated events. Since Buffett found out that tickets, formerly only available to shareholders, ...

By Sheldon Liber Filed under: International markets, Forecasts, Rants and raves, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Recession, Financial Crisis Would you be interested in seeing Buffett and Roubini appear together on a news show?

By Jim Cramer Filed under: General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Market matters, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Tiffany and Co (TIF), ConocoPhillips (COP), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Cramer on BloggingStocks, U.S. Bancorp (USB)

By Sheldon Liber Filed under: Forecasts, Other issues, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Tiffany and Co (TIF), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Harley-Davidson (HOG), Recession, Financial Crisi...

By Sheldon Liber Filed under: Magazines, Rants and raves, General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), American Express (AXP), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Wells Fargo (WFC), U.S. Bancorp (USB)When you're at the top of your game you get a lot of attention and Warren Buffett was the focus of a Barron's s...

By Zac Bissonnette Filed under: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), BooksWhen I first heard that Alice Schroeder was writing a biography of Warren Buffett, I was excited. Buffett knows Ms. Schroeder well, and had given her extensive interviews and unprecedented access to his records -- this was sure to be the defin...

By Jon Ogg Filed under: Analyst reports, Wal-Mart (WMT), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), American Express (AXP), MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), Procter and Gamble (PG)Last night there was an interesting edition of MAD MONEY on CNBC. Jim Cramer came out and did a review of many dif...

By Zac Bissonnette A piece in Saturday's New York Times ponders the question, "Is it better to learn about Warren Buffett's investing methods and apply them to your own stock-picking or just buy shares of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)?" Robert Hagstrom, one of the world's foremost investing experts an...

By Douglas McIntyre Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) has too much money. Its chief, Warren Buffett, says he might buy something for $40 to $60 billion, if he can find something cheap. Overspending is against his principles. Permalink | Email this | Comments

By Peter Cohan On Sunday, Warren Buffett said he wanted to buy a huge business -- in the $5 billion to $20 billion range. With $46 billion in cash and $90 billion of cash and fixed-income securities on its balance sheet, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A) can certainly afford to buy a huge business.