When Warren Buffett speaks (which is rare outside his annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting), people should listen.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.08.2008 | Business
**UPDATE** After the second presidential debate, we went back to Alice Schroeder to ask what she thought about something the candidates said... see th...
MarketWatch | Posted 11.01.2008 | Business
GE today announced plans to offer at least $12 billion of common stock to the public. The underwriters will have a 30-day option to purchase shares re...
New York Daily News | Rush & Molloy | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business
The world's richest man is finally opening up about his complicated love life. Warren Buffett, whose shrewd investing has swelled his Berkshire Hatha...
DealBook | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business
Still, Mr. Buffett is not taking big risks based on the structure of the investment. Berkshire Hathaway will receive perpetual preferred shares in Go...
AP | ANNA JO BRATTON | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is investing at least $5 billion in Goldman Sachs, a huge vote of confidence for one of t...
Bloomberg | Erik Holm | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which today agreed to buy Constellation Energy Group Inc., is increasing the pace of de...
Wall Street Journal | Damian Paletta | Posted 10.11.2008 | Business
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has told one of its subsidiaries to stop insuring bank deposits above the amount guaranteed by the federal go...
DealBook | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
Warren Buffett has given away 512,169 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to three charitable foundations, in keeping with his plan to give awa...
Bloomberg.com | Josh P. Hamilton | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- It must be a bear market because even billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has slumped almost 20 percent since ...
Posted 07.04.2008 | Business
Anheuser-Busch's board of directors will reject Belgian beverage giant InBev's $65-a-share takeover bid, a source told the New York Times. The rejecti...
Clusterstock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business
The news media has reported ad nauseam that Anheuser-Busch's (BUD) most recognizable shareholder is in favor of the $65/share InBev buyout. (Us, too)....
AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. — It's anyone's guess how high the bidding will go this year when the chance to have lunch with investor Warren Buffett is put up fo...
Bloomberg | Josh P. Hamilton | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business
Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. may bank a $600 million profit if InBev NV succeeds in its $46.3 billion takeover of Budweiser-ma...
The Guardian | James Doran | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
Warren Buffett, the investor known as the sage of Omaha, is this week expected to privately step into the $46bn hostile bid by Belgian brewer Inbev fo...
NYT | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business
Warren Buffett, a longtime critic of the fees charged by some money managers, has put his own cash on the line -- or, at least, a small chunk of it --...
AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 05.12.2008 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett tried to reassure his shareholders Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway will be fine once he is gone, but the 77-year-o...
AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 05.10.2008 | Business
OMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Friday its first-quarter profit fell 64 percent because it recorded an unrealized $1.6 billion pretax...
CNN/Money | Nicholas Varchaver | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
Some 15 times a year, Warren Buffett invites a group of business students for an intensive day of learning. Fortune was there for a recent visit. His...
CNBC | Josh Funk | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
At Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the chief financial officer again brought home more compensation last year than the two billionaires who run the company. ...
Fortune | Colin Barr | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Berkshire Hathaway had another excellent year in 2007, posting an 11% gain in net worth, CEO Warren Buffett said in Friday's annual report to sharehol...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Dairy Queen is facing a dilly of a problem -- a rebellion against the revamping of restaurants by a growing number of mostly mom-and-pop franchise own...
CNNMoney | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Warren Buffett's investment group, Berkshire Hathaway, bought more than 132 million shares of food company Kraft, according to a document filed with t...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
If the stock market was a person, what kind of person would it be?
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street finished mostly higher Tuesday after billionaire investor Warren Buffett offered to help out troubled bond insurers, easi...
James Berman | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business