Goldman Sachs, Warren Buffett To Help Small Businesses
NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Tuesday it is teaming with billionaire investor Warren Buffett to invest $500 million to provide thousands o...
NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Tuesday it is teaming with billionaire investor Warren Buffett to invest $500 million to provide thousands o...
Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Warren Buffett is such an important voice in the business world that, single-handedly, he could influence the way Corporate America is paid.
Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books
Buffett had indeed learned through experience that "when in doubt keep holding"; he said, "I've made most of my money sitting on my ass."
fool.com | Mac Greer | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
o what about Buffett the person? What's his biggest weakness? Does anyone in his circle openly disagree with him? How does he measure his success? In ...
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Berkshire Hathaway said its net profit was $3.2bn (£1.9bn) in the three months to September, compared to $1.1bn in the same period last year....
Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books
Buffett would always love reading newspapers, but his investing was tightly focused on simple businesses that were as close to immortal as possible. Newspapers no longer qualified.
AP | SAMANTHA BOMKAMP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The biggest name in investing is making what he calls an "all-in wager" on the U.S. economy – $34 billion to own a railroad tha...
Alice Schroeder | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.
Alan Schram | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
This will be a different kind of inflationary cycle. The dollar will decline, but Real estate prices will not be going up because few property owners can raise rents right now.
Sep. 16, 2009 | Colin Barr, Senior Writer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Buffett, the billionaire investor who runs Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA, Fortune 500), said Tuesday at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in San Diego t...
WSJ | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology
Could a voicemail that languished for months inside Warren Buffett's cellphone have saved Lehman Brothers? This is the tale recounted from Time's Kare...
NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet got a piece of Chicago this morning. Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway, today acquired Koenig & Strey Real Estat...
AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's company on Friday reported a 14 percent jump in second-quarter profit as the improving stock market boosted the v...
KAJA WHITEHOUSE | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business
Were it not for government bailouts, for which Buffett lobbied hard, many of his company's stock holdings would have been wiped out. Berkshire Hathaw...
Posted 08.24.2009 | Business
When Warren Buffet talks, the world listens. Now you can throw children into the legions of people who follow Buffett's advice. CNBC is reporting toda...
cnbc.com | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business
Buffett will speak to us in the first of a series of promotional interviews for a new online animated series called Secret Millionaire's Club. Th...
AP | Josh Funk | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A Canadian investment firm paid $1.68 million in last month's charity auction to win lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffet...
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
In an interview with CNBC this week, legendary investor Warren Buffett offered a rather grim assessment of the economy. In other words, forget all the...
bloomberg.com | James Rowley | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares as U.S. stock markets ...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
The irony of Buffett is that his talent and his will are unfathomable, but his flaws are not. The one thing we can truly understand about him is the part of him that's just like the rest of us.
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business
At a time when the financial press is in the doghouse for cozying up to CEOs and failing to see the economic disaster ahead, Buffett remains above the fray.
AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's company reported a $1.5 billion first-quarter loss as it wrote down its ConocoPhillips investment and mostly unre...
Thomas A. Bass | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business
The world economy sits on top of the world financial markets, and there is no hope of engineering an economic recovery without a functioning financial system.
Seeking Alpha | Trader Mark | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business
One thing about many quite old people is they have a lot of wisdom and are not afraid to speak their minds. Via this Bloomberg article, we have Berksh...
Nancy Snow | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media
Truth is, we need heroes in American journalism, and I'm less than optimistic that my journalistic hero is going to be a Facebook friend or someone I'm following on Twitter.
AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business