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Berkshire Hathaway
Annual Berkshire Meeting To Be Coming Out Party for a Fleet-Footed Running Shoe Company
On Saturday May 5, more than 30,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are expected to file into the CenturyLink Center in downtown Omaha to soak in wisdom from its legendary CEO, Warren Buffett, and wander through an exhibit hall …
Warren Buffett on Succession, Stock Buybacks and Why He Doesn’t Like Gold
Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder letter is an eagerly anticipated treat for the financial community, and as usual, the 81-year-old Oracle of Omaha did not disappoint. In his characteristically good-humored, plainspoken …
Surprise! Warren Buffett Owns Tech Stocks
A week after disclosing that he had dived headlong into stocks dependent on a strong economy, Warren Buffett reveals he also bought 5.5% of the technology giant IBM. Cyclical and tech stocks are not usually high on Buffett’s wish …
Warren Buffett Is Buying. Is It Time to Celebrate?
It’s possible to over-analyze Warren Buffett’s investment moves. But that doesn’t seem to stop anyone, and the Oracle of Omaha’s latest disclosures are whipping up a stir over prospects for a robust recovery.
Warren Buffett’s Boring, Brilliant Wisdom
Warren Buffett is old. He can’t keep up with the times. He’s famously cheap, and wears dorky grandpa glasses and bad suits. Even his seemingly cool nickname, “The Oracle of Omaha,” sort of sounds like a hokey phrase coined in the Roaring ’20s, or perhaps in ancient Greece. But as he’s proved time and again—like last year, when net …
Warren Buffett: housing is on the mend, financial firms are derelict
Over the weekend, Warren Buffett posted his annual letter to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. You can read it here (PDF).
The 20-page letter is, as always, partly a recap of the Buffett philosophy: only buy businesses you understand, keep plenty of cash on hand, run companies for long-term return and not short-term stock-price …
Help Wanted: Warren Buffett’s Hiring
The other day I attended a luncheon for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers nominees, which is just a way for me to mention I, ahem, was one in 2006 for my first book–though not, tragically, a finalist. At the lunch I met a lovely fellow who runs a Nebraska furniture business owned by Berkshire Hathaway (his partner was a fellow …