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Buffett Says His Businesses Bottomed
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire Warren Buffett said that while his businesses have bottomed after the worst financial crisis in decades, he saw few upticks and ruled out a buoyant holiday season.Consumer demand will recover and it is likely that the economy would come back in two years rather than...
Tags: Warren Buffett, Buffett, Taxes, Personal Finance, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning
News items 2009-11-13
Buffett's Bottom-Fishing For Fun and Profit
Is it too soon for bottom fishing? Not if you're Warren Buffett. The Sage of Omaha, through his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. firm, may invest between $3 billion and $6 billion in General Electric Co. and perhaps $2 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. As...
Tags: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., General Electric Co., Warren Buffett, Buffett, Financial Planning, Insurance, Financial Accounting, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-10-02
Buffett's Bio Best of 2008 -- Business Pundit
The Warren Buffett bio "Snowball" made the BNET notable list, but didn't garner enough votes for the top 10. Perhaps most voters are still plowing through its 976 pages. His mere Buffettness seemed enough to put the book at number one on Business Pundit's list of 2008's best business books....
Tags: List, Buffett, Business Pundit, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-12-18
Buffett's "Greenback Emissions" & The Consequences of China-Style Deleveraging Threaten Big Bank Recovery
Watching all the action going on in China right now may be sort of like glimpsing into the future. If that is the case, then the scenario doesn't look good for U.S. banks. by Daniel M. Harrison
Tags: Bank, Recovery, Buffett, Financial Services, Daniel M. Harrison
Blog posts 2009-08-19
Buffett Sells More Moody's Stake As Credit Ratings Agencies Face Revenue Growth Challenges
The investor who once famously remarked that his best holding period for a stock is "forever" is unloading portions of his holding in a firm many believe to be a key culprit of the financial crisis. by Daniel M. Harrison
Tags: Revenue, Agency, Moody's Corp., Buffett, Financial Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing, Daniel M. Harrison
Blog posts 2009-10-31
Buffett's Buying More Burlington; Should You?
David Enke submits: The Inside Scoop feature at Barron's see article is reporting on how Warren Buffett has increased his position in Burlington Northern Santa Fe BNI. Earlier this week, Buffett bought another 825,000 shares, bring his total position to about 19% of the company. Not only does this...
Tags: Burlington, Warren Buffett, Seeking Alpha, Buffett, David Enke, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Transport
External links 2008-11-01

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What Buffett Does Shouldn't Matter to You
Mike Stathis submits: Without a doubt, Warren Buffett is one of the leading investors in the world. There’s no disputing that. But let’s face it. His skills have been over-exaggerated by the media. Of more detriment, the media continues to deliver the message that what Buffett invests in matters to...
Tags: Seeking Alpha, Mike Stathis
External links 2009-04-17
Buffett Buying Burlington Rail in His Biggest Deal
By Nick Zieminski NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc will pay $26 billion to buy out Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp in a bet the nation's largest rail company will benefit from a recovering U.S. economy. The deal, announced on Tuesday, is the billionaire investor's biggest-ever acquisition...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett
News items 2009-11-03
Buffett Buying Burlington Rail
By Nick Zieminski NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRKaBRKb will pay $26 billion (16 billion pounds) to buy out Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp BNI in a bet the nation's largest rail company will benefit from a recovering U.S. economy. The deal, announced on Tuesday,...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett
News items 2009-11-04
Buffett Buying Burlington Rail in His Biggest Deal
By Nick ZieminskiNEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc will pay $26 billion to buy out Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp in a bet the nation's largest rail company will benefit from a recovering U.S. economy.The deal, announced on Tuesday, is the billionaire investor's biggest-ever acquisition and may...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett, BNSF, Mutual Funds, Investment, Retirement Plans, Financial Accounting, Human Resources
News items 2009-11-03
Buffett Buying Burlington Rail
By Nick ZieminskiNEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRKaBRKb will pay $26 billion (16 billion pounds) to buy out Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp BNI in a bet the nation's largest rail company will benefit from a recovering U.S. economy.The deal, announced on Tuesday, is the...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett, BNSF, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., CanArgo Energy Corp., Coca-Cola Co., CSX Corp., General Electric Co., Norfolk Southern Corp., Union Pacific Corp.
News items 2009-11-03
Buffett Buying Burlington Rail in His Biggest Deal
By Nick ZieminskiNEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc will pay $26 billion to buy out Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp in a bet the nation's largest rail company will benefit from a recovering U.S. economy.The deal, announced on Tuesday, is the billionaire investor's biggest-ever acquisition and may...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett, BNSF, Mutual Funds, Investment, Retirement Plans, Financial Accounting, Human Resources
News items 2009-11-03
Warren Buffett's "Moats" Approach vs. Value Investing
Saj Karsan submits:Though he studied under Ben Graham and has adopted many of Graham's investing principles, the world's greatest investor is not your typical value investor. He speaks of margins of safety and of buying companies at discounts, but over the years Buffett has shown a willingness to buy businesses...
Tags: US Market, Saj Karsan, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
External links 2009-11-05
Sure, Buffett is Shrewd -- He Wants the Bailout, Too
Throughout this ongoing economic crisis, the hardcore anti-bailout crowd crows that everything can be fixed if we just act more like multi-billionaire Warren Buffett. Apparently, Buffett sees gold where others envision only muck. So the "Oracle of Omaha" is digging deep--but not too deep, mind you--to acquire...
Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, General Electric Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Investment, Robert Reed, Warren Buffett
Blog posts 2008-10-02
Safe signals from Buffett's train deal
In the annals of double-edged compliments, Warren Buffett's description of his planned $27bn acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe as an "all-in wager on the economic future of the US" ranks highly. If the best expression of the future of the US economy is a railway operator dating back to...
Tags: Warren Buffett
News items 2009-11-04
With $5B Goldman Play, Buffett Banks on Fed's Bailout
With his $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs, super-investor Warren Buffett is betting the proposed $700 billion economic bailout package, now being hotly debated before Congress, will soon pass without any major changes or restrictions. Once the proposed bailout legislation is law, the U.S. government becomes the ultimate buyer of bad...
Tags: Bailout, Federal Government, Federal Reserve Board, Finance, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Government, Investment, Robert Reed, Warren Buffett
Blog posts 2008-09-24
My Weakness for Warren (Buffett) Is Waning
The Common Sense Conservative is down on Warren Buffett. He's fed up with CNBC's sycophantic coverage of Saturday's Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting but more to the point, he thinks it's time for someone to challenge the "Oracle of Omaha" (erroneously referenced as the "Sage of Omaha" in Saturday's FT)....
Tags: Derivatives, Warren Buffett, Financial Services, Jill Schlesinger
Blog posts 2009-05-04
Buffett Buying Burlington Northern in $34 Billion Deal
By Nick Zieminski NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc will pay $26 billion to buy out railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp in what the billionaire investor called a bet on the U.S. economy. The deal, Buffett's biggest-ever acquisition, is priced at a premium of 31.5 percent...
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett
News items 2009-11-03
Could Warren Buffett Save Dow Chemical?
For Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, failure isn't an option. Liveris has a tough juggle ahead of him to complete his company's $15.3 billion acquisition of Rohm & Haas. Ever since Liveris beat out rival BASF to win Rohm in a bidding war in July, he has touted Rohm's ability...
News items 2009-08-07
Warren Buffett: The Financial Panic is Over
By Jonathan Stempel and Clare BaldwinNEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, perhaps the world's most admired investor, said on Thursday the financial panic that gripped the globe last year is a thing of the past, even as the U.S. economy's struggles persist."The financial panic is behind us," the world's second-richest...
Tags: Financial, Warren Buffett, Financial Accounting, Finance, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Microsoft Corp., Us, US
News items 2009-11-12
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