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- Is a Good Face Good for Business?
- Facial coding, the idea that your expression gives away what you are really thinking, was put forth some 40 years ago by psychologist Paul Ekman . But does it work in business? Can you tell what CEOs really think, just by looking, or are they so carefully trained that...
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- 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...
- 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...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Warren Buffett: How He Does It
- Did one knew that a $10,000 investment in Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, the year Warren Buffett took control of it, would grow to be worth nearly $30 million by 2005? By comparison, $10,000 in the S&P 500 would have grown to only about $500,000. Whether one likes him or not,...
- White papers 2005-04-22
- With Bailout In Sight, Big Private Investors Back Banks
- While the proposed $700 billion, taxpayer-backed rescue of the economy is grabbing the nation's undivided attention, private investors are pouring billions into the U.S. financial system and backing banking groups poised to survive the current crisis. Right now, an estimated $40 billion in outside money is being pumped into some of the country's biggest banking concerns....
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Energy Roundup: Warren Buffett Goes Nuclear, DoE Awards $17.6 Million to Solar Startups, and More
- Warren Buffet may go nuclear on EDF-Constellation deal -- Billionaire icon Warren Buffett is dealing with shareholder protests over the planned merger between the French electricity firm EDF and Constellation Energy, the U.S. nuclear energy company he recently agreed to buy for $.7 billion. [Source: The U.K. Guardian] ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Is This a Game-Changer for the Global Economy?
- There are many ways to look at the evolving financial crisis. And how you view it is going to shape your fundamental business decisions over the next few weeks, months, and years. If you believe in the basic tenants of capitalism, you've seen this all before --...
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Business Bestsellers:Read 'Em and Leap
- Warren Buffett's biography and Dan Roam's book on visual problem solving are the only books to make Amazon.com business bestsellers and its editors 'best of' picks for 2008. Many of these books are not yet nominated for BNET's Best Business Books of 2008. There is still time for you to...
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- What Does Warren Buffett Like About Wells Fargo?
- This weekend, Warren Buffett stunned shareholders when he expressed his enthusiasm for Wells Fargo. by Daniel M. Harrison
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Berkshire Hathaway Buys Out Burlington Northern for $26B
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed to to a $26 billion deal to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., the country's second-largest railroad holding company. This is the biggest acquisition ever made for Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive Warren Buffett said in a statement, "Berkshire's $34 billion...
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- 5 Reasons to Ignore Buffett
- Tick Talk submits: Within the past two weeks my neighbor, my lawyer, and my doctor each told me that Warren Buffett is suggesting that Americans buy shares in American companies. I tolerated the first two, but I really let my doctor have it today. I blurted out - “AND???” “How does that apply...
- External links 2008-10-26
- Warren Buffet, The Ultimate Dividend Investor
- Dobromir Stoyanov submits: Warren Buffett is the greatest investor in America. The famous value investor topped Forbes richest individuals list in 2008, overthrowing his pal Bill Gates from Microsoft MSFT from his twelve year period of holding this title. Investors have long followed Buffett’s advice on stock selection, economic issues...
- External links 2008-11-02
- Manulife Financial: Enduring Value
- Brad Ferris submits: “I believe I had my first Coca-Cola in either 1935 or 1936. Of a certainty, it was in 1936 that I started buying Cokes at the rate of six for 25 cents from Buffett & Son, the family grocery store, to sell around the neighborhood for 5...
- External links 2008-11-06
- The Future of Investing
- Want to pick a date for the stock market to get back to its 2007 high? You may need a calendar that goes to 2017. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- Buffett: We Were Close to a 'Meltdown'
- A Chinese businessman pays $2.1 million to charity to win lunch with the billionaire investor -- and the 'Oracle of Omaha' shares his thoughts about how dire the U.S. financial crisis really was. Priya David reports.
- Videos 2009-06-26
- The Biggest Mistake Investors Make
- Looking for that can?t-miss money manager who will make all your financial worries disappear? That person doesn?t exist. And perhaps the single most expensive mistake that investors make is to chase after that dream, year after year, dragging down their returns in the process. Here?s the deceptively simple alternative. ...
- Articles 2009-10-22
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- Warren Buffett Receives 2007 UC Berkeley Financial Reporting Award.
- Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 9 AScribe Newswire -- Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the most successful investors of our time, is the 2007 recipient of the Berkeley Award for Distinguished Contributions to...
- Research articles 2007-11-09
- Berkshire Profit Up 14 Percent as Stocks Rebound
- By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc posted its best quarter in nearly two years, as recovering stock markets boosted the value of its equity investments and derivatives bets. Operating earnings for the second quarter nevertheless fell short of forecasts, reflecting lower underwriting gains, including...
- News items 2009-08-07
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