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• Down 45%, Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Are On Sale

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-19

  Chad Brand submits: About a year ago, I commented on an article that appeared in Barron's which argued that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) was overvalued. In my post, entitled Barron's Pans Buffett's Berkshire, I agreed with the article that Berkshire Hathaway stock looked overvalued. A lot has changed...

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• Has Buffett Become a Dividend Investor?

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-17

  Dobromir Stoyanov submits: The SEC just released an updated list of Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK.A) stock holdings as of 09/30/2008. The Oracle of Omaha, who is the main capital allocator for Berkshire added to the following positions:   Buffett decreased Berkshire Hathaway's stake in the following holdings: by Dobromir Stoyanov

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• Berkshire Hathaway's Post Party Hangover

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-11

  Todd Sullivan submits: The real story here isn't the derivative contracts or the investment holdings, it is that indeed, "the party is over". This was quoted from Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A) Chief Warren Buffett in his annual letter earlier this year in regard to insurance results. Here are...

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• Berkshire Hathaway: Insurance Market Turmoil Impacting the Bottom Line

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-09

  Ron Haruni submits: In a regulatory filing on Friday, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A), said the company's 3Q’08 net income fell 77% to $1.06 billion, ($682/Class A share) from $4.55 billion $2,942/share, in last year’s first quarter. Operating profit in Berkshire’s insurance underwriting business, which is the company’s...

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• Buffett on Investing vs. Business

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-08

  Nadav Manham submits: Jason Zweig's "Intelligent Investor" column in last week's WSJ featured some interesting Buffett tidbits: 1)  Buffett, whose powers of mental calculation are legendary, confessed that he doesn't know how well Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A) portfolio of stocks has done in recent years:  by Nadav Manham

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• Jayhawk Capital Management, LLC Closes Its U.S.-Focused Hedge Fund after Achieving 23%+ Net Annual Returns since January 1, 1999

  - 2008-10-24

  Cites Poor U.S. Economic Policy; Since Fund's Close, Dow Down 26.8% and S&P Down 29.7% MISSION, Kan. -- In its June 2008 Quarterly Newsletter to Investors titled "Cash is King," Jayhawk Capital Management summarizes its bearish view on U.S. equities due to fiscal and individual imbalances and incoherent...

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• Does It Pay To Follow Buffet Blindly?

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-24

  Dobromir Stoyanov submits: Warren Buffett, the student of the now famous father or value investing Ben Graham, is the greatest stock investor of our times. He has built his flagship company, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) from a small mill to a diversified conglomerate with a total market cap of 175 billion...

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• Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Commences Registered Exchange Offers

  - 2008-10-23

  OMAHA, Neb. -- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ("Berkshire") and Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corporation ("BHFC") today announced that they have commenced three separate registered exchange offers. The first is an offer to exchange up to $1,000,000,000 of BHFC's newly registered 4.60% Senior Notes due 2013 (the "2013 4.60% Exchange Notes") for an...

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• Let Buffet Do the Buying for You

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-21

  Dobromir Stoyanov submits: The markets have been pretty terrible this year with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrials falling 36% and 33% respectively from the end of the year. Major indexes still remain about 39% off their all time highs set just one year ago. Many asset classes have...

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• MidAmerican and Constellation Energy Announce First Merger-Related Regulatory Filing

  - 2008-10-02

  DES MOINES, Iowa & BALTIMORE -- MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company and Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) today announced that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) filed notification pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, of MidAmerican's proposed merger with Constellation Energy. "This is the first step in...

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• MidAmerican and Berkshire Hathaway Announce Investment in BYD Company Limited

  - 2008-09-27

  Joint press conference - Sept. 29, 2008, 4 p.m., at the Four Seasons Hotel - Hong Kong, 8 Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong, China HONG KONG -- MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRKA) (NYSE:BRKB) subsidiary, today announced it has agreed to purchase 225 million shares, representing...

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• Lexington Announces a Contingent Property Reinsurance Cover from Berkshire Hathaway

  - 2008-09-26

  NEW YORK -- Lexington Insurance Company announced today that effective September 15, 2008 it has arranged a Contingent Property Reinsurance cover from Berkshire Hathaway's National Indemnity Company for Lexington's Real Estate Portfolio, as well as policies having limits of $250 million or greater, policies with home/foreign exposure and the property...

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• Goldman Sachs Prices $5 Billion Public Offering of Common Equity

  - 2008-09-24

  Berkshire Hathaway Invests $5 Billion, Receives Warrants for Further $5 Billion NEW YORK -- The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) announced today that it has priced a public offering of 40.65 million common shares at $123 per share for total gross proceeds of approximately $5 billion. In addition,...

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• Berkshire Hathaway to Invest $5 Billion in Goldman Sachs

  - 2008-09-23

  NEW YORK -- The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell $5 billion of perpetual preferred stock to Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. in a private offering. The preferred stock has a dividend of 10 percent and is callable at any time at...

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• Buffett doubles his UP stake

  - 2008-09-01

  In a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway holding company disclosed that it has doubled its stake in the Union Pacific, from 4.45 million to 8.9 million shares. As usual, Buffett has not indicated why he chose to make this purchase at this...

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• Max Capital Group Names Kevin C. Werle Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer

  - 2008-08-27

  HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Max Capital Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MXGL; BSX: MXGL BH) ("Max Capital" or the "Company") today announced the appointment of Kevin C. Werle as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer. Mr. Werle, an experienced insurance industry veteran who most recently served as Vice President responsible for risk...

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• Stone & Youngberg Completes First Berkshire Hathaway Insured Negotiated Financing in State of California

  - 2008-08-20

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Stone & Youngberg, a leading financial services firm and the nation's top underwriter of California and Arizona municipal bonds1, served as sole underwriter for the Series 2008A Certificate of Participation COPs negotiated financing for the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District. The financing, which closed last week, was...

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• Is There a Margin of Safety in Financials?

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-17

  Noise Free Investing submits: “Sometimes, what matters is not so much how low the odds are that circumstances would turn quite negative, what matters more is what the consequences would be if that happens”  Jean Marie Eveillard by Noise Free Investing

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• Tiffany & Co. is a stock that Buffett would love

  - 2008-07-06

  Warren Buffett, of Berkshire Hathaway, hasn't asked for our investing advice. But we think we've found a company he'd like to own: Tiffany. Buffett likes companies with strong defenses, or "moats," around their businesses. Potential acquisitions must have a track record of generating superior returns on invested cash...

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• Berkshire battling the bear market

  - 2008-07-03

  It must be a bear market because even billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has slumped almost 20 percent since December. The decline exceeds the drop of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and marks the worst first half for the Omaha, Neb.-based investment and holding company since...

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• CEO: Mr. Warren E. Buffett