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- Warren Buffett and the Return of the Railroads
- Sky-high energy prices, increasingly crowded commuter corridors, and worries about the environment are setting the stage for trains to thunder once again across the US moving commerce and people, predicts Harvard University professor John R. Stilgoe. “Train travel will supplant highway and air travel in the next few decades....
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- 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 $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...
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- 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
- It's Like Old Times for IPOs and Insurers Are Piling In
- Remember the go-go ‘90's, when fast money was made in virtually every initial public offering? Shares of a fresh face would double on the initial day of trading, investment banks like Morgan Stanley that were managing the offering would grab their seven percent and no one would mind except for the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- 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
- Buffett and the Limits to 'Awaiting Better Times'
- Kevin S. Price submits: With the publication of Warren Buffett's opinion piece in the New York Times, we'd like to revisit the question of selling equities into the maw of this growling bear. As we've written recently (here and here, for example), the big problem with selling at these...
- External links 2008-10-17
- A Bailout for Berkshire?
- Julian Van Erlach submits: Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the world’s smartest investor, rarely if ever gives public advice; until now. He recently urged Americans to buy stocks. I do not however, recall him issuing us a sell call prior to the $8T, 40% loss of...
- External links 2008-10-23
- Comcast Looks Incredibly Cheap
- Ockham Research submits: Let’s face it, those stocks once thought to be “safe” no longer are. Over the last two months even the most strident of bulls has lost at least some of their confidence. Consumers are cash strapped, unemployment is rising and the stock market has tanked. So,...
- External links 2008-10-24
- 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
- Expert Predictions: Finding Value in Knife's Edge Markets
- Prieur du Plessis submits: The list of well-known names identifying value on the U.S. stock market at current levels is growing by the day and includes the likes of Jeremy Grantham (GMO – “Careful buying is justified”), Warren Buffett (“Buy America. I am”), John Hussman (Hussman Funds – “Why...
- External links 2008-11-12
- It Pays to Throw Good Money After Bad
- Do the math: investing steadily when stocks are swinging wildly will help you rebuild your tattered retirement savings faster than you might think. If you don't believe it, let us show you how it worked even in the worst bear market ever, the Great Depression. Rational brain, you...
- Articles 2009-04-01
- 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
- Another Great One-Liner from Warren Buffett
- Time will tell whether Berkshire Hathaway's acquisition of railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe is a money-maker, although I would be the last one to doubt Warren Buffett. The deal is not just momentous in terms of size, but it also includes the...
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
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- The judgment of Salomon. (Salomon Brothers and Warren Buffett)
- Famed investor Warren Buffett is seemingly in the midst of one of his few blunders, as he tries to direct what his firm, Berkshire Hathaway, should do with the stock it owns in the investment bank Salomon Brothers. He plans to convert his preferred sharesFamed investor Warren Buffett is seemingly...
- Research articles 1996-09-21
- Investment King Warren Buffett to Buy North Carolina-Based Textile Giant.
- The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 12--Warren Buffett, the legendary entrepreneur who built a multibillion-dollar investment empire, stamped his seal of approval on one of North Carolina's biggest textile companies Tuesday. Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., agreed...
- Research articles 2003-02-12
- Warren Buffett's Bet on Rail and America
- Chris Krasowski submits: It's not so much a bet on rail as it is a bet on the American economy; Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) and Warren Buffett's purchase of Burlington Northern BNI which involved buying the remaining 77% stake to take complete control over the railway company is a stern...
- External links 2009-11-04
- 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
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