NEW YORK (Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s $6.2 billion foray into Japan’s five largest trading houses may signal billionaire Warren Buffett’s expectation that inflation and a falling U.S. dollar may make international equities more attractive when economie... More »
(Reuters) – Warren Buffett on Saturday called on corporate America to make their boards of directors more accountable to shareholders and less beholden to chief executive officers, perhaps by reducing their pay and requiring that they buy more stock. In his an... More »
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Preventing injuries from running shoes is a science for Jim Weber, the chief executive of Brooks Running, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. “The worst nightmare is to get injured,” Weber said in an interview during Berk... More »
(Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Wednesday said a $377 million charge it incurred recently was tied to a solar generation company that U.S. authorities have linked to fraud. Berkshire said in its first-quarter report on Saturday it had in... More »
(Reuters) – Warren Buffett said on Monday his Berkshire Hathaway Inc overpaid in the 2015 merger that created Kraft Heinz Co, but he had no plans to flee the struggling packaged foods company. Buffett spoke four days after Kraft Heinz took a $15.4 billion writ... More »
(Reuters) – The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, admitted on Monday he knew less than he thought about Oracle Corp, the company overseen by fellow billionaire Larry Ellison. Investors were flummoxed earlier this month when Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway... More »
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Billionaire Warren Buffett has been buying a boatload of Apple Inc shares and on Saturday suggested he would buy even more shares at the right price. At Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s annual shareholder meeting, Buffett credited Apple with de... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc Vice Chairman Charlie Munger are answering five hours of questions from shareholders, journalists and analysts at Berkshire’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. The weekend kno... More »
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Warren Buffett on Saturday said he hoped a chief executive would be found within a couple of months for the healthcare company being set up by Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Amazon.com Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to lower patient costs. Speak... More »
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Billionaire Warren Buffett on Saturday defended his earlier remark that it would be “ridiculous” for the conglomerate not to do business with gun manufacturers, noting that he does not want to impose his political views on Berkshire’s i... More »
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Warren Buffett said he would be happy if his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc owned more than 5 percent of Apple Inc’s stock, including if the iPhone maker bought back more of its shares. Buffett made his assessment before tens of th... More »
FILE PHOTO: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett waits to play table tennis during the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. May 7, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo (Reuters) – A giant hurricane, earthquake or other conflagra... More »
Warren Buffett on Saturday lamented his inability to find big companies to buy and said his goal is to make "one or more huge acquisitions" of non-insurance businesses to bolster results at his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. More »
FILE PHOTO: Berkshire Hathaway shareholders walk by a video screen at the company’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., May 4, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire Warren Buffett prodded ordinary investors on Saturday to ... More »
FILE PHOTO: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett visits the BNSF booth before the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., May 6, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Below is a selection of comments from Warren Buffet... More »
FILE PHOTO – Investor Warren Buffet arrives for the premiere of the film ”Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” in New York, U.S. on September 20, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo It took less than 24 hours for Warren Buffett, one of the world’s savviest deal... More »
FILE PHOTO – The entry to the Home Capital Group’s headquarters is seen at an office tower in the financial district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on May 1, 2017. Picture taken using a wide angle lens. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo Warren Buffett’s Berkshire ... More »
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks at the Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit in Washington October 13, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Wells Fargo & Co’s (WFC.N) largest investor, Warren Buffett, has likely already voted... More »
File photo: Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett drinks a can of Cherry Coke at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha May 1, 2010. REUTERS/Rick Wilking Coca-Cola Co is putting the likeness of Warren Buffett on Cherry Coke cans in China, hoping t... More »
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, smiles before speaking with Bill Gates (not pictured), at Columbia University in New York, U.S., January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton David Harding, founder of one of the world’s biggest hedge fund... More »
FILE PHOTO – An Apple iPhone 7 and the company logo are seen in this illustration picture taken in Bordeaux, France on February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/File Photo Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) is sitting on more than $1.6 billion of ... More »
FILE PHOTO – Investor Warren Buffet arrives for the premiere of the film ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’ in New York, U.S. on September 20, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Saturday attacked what he saw as tricks ... More »
File Photo: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett plays bridge during the Berkshire annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo Billionaire Warren Buffett, whose stock picks over several decades have enriched generati... More »
A Bank of America logo is seen in New York City, U.S. January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith Warren Buffett said on Saturday he plans to stick with the shrewd bet that his Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) made on Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), but might event... More »
File Photo: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett plays bridge during the Berkshire annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo Warren Buffett, widely considered one of the world’s best investors, is likely to tout th... More »
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, smiles before speaking with Bill Gates (not pictured), at Columbia University in New York, U.S., January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) was an aggress... More »
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks at the Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit in Washington October 13, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Billionaire investor Warren Buffett defended the stock market’s strength and raised d... More »
Warren Buffett, Chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway takes part in interviews before a fundraising luncheon for the nonprofit Glide Foundation in New York September 8, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Warren Buffett, chairman of Be... More »
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) on Monday revealed a new stake in Apple Inc (AAPL.O), in a bet that the stock price could rebound after iPhone sales fell for the first time. Berkshire held 9.81 million Apple shares worth about $1.07 billion as... More »
SAN FRANCISCO Warren Buffett struck media gold with a 2012 investment in debt-laden Media General Inc. Now the famed investor may try to reprise that success by supporting a bid for Yahoo Inc’s Internet assets. The Berkshire Hathaway Inc chairman is backing a ... More »
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Chairman Warren Buffett is backing a consortium vying for Yahoo Inc’s internet assets that includes Quicken Loans Inc founder Dan Gilbert, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. While there is no certainty that the consortium wi... More »
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Saturday said fourth-quarter profit rose 32 percent, helped by improved results in its insurance operations and higher gains from investments and derivatives. Net income rose to $5.48 billion, or $3,333 per Class A sh... More »
NEW YORK At last May’s annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Warren Buffett said he had “no apologies whatsoever” for the lending practices of the company’s Clayton Homes mobile home unit, which had been accused in a published report of predatory lendi... More »
NEW YORK Warren Buffett bemoaned the “negative drumbeat” on the U.S. economy from presidential candidates in his annual Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholder letter on Saturday, saying they are misleading Americans into believing their children will be worse off ... More »
NEW YORK Warren Buffett will release his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders after a year when its stock price lagged the broader market by the most since 2009, adding to years of underperformance. The letter, due Saturday, is a must-read on W... More »
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