Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway

Buffett’s company to buy $3B of GE preferred stock

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October 2, 2008 9:43 pm

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is investing $3 billion in General Electric Co., a huge vote of confidence for an iconic American company battered by the financial crisis. For the ... Read more »

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Warren Buffett: I Haven’t Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime -

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9:33 am

Billionaire Warren Buffett, the world’s preeminent stock picker, said the U.S. economy is “flat on the floor” after a cardiac arrest as companies struggle to secure funding and unemployment increases.“In ... Read more »

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Warren Buffett Explains His $5B Goldman Investment

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September 24, 2008 6:51 pm

Warren Buffett was interviewed live by telephone on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning about his surprise investment of at least $5 billion in Goldman Sachs BECKY:  Does the backdrop of ... Read more »

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Buffett Buys Goldman Sachs Stake in `Economic Pearl Harbor’

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5:51 pm

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who tells investors to be “greedy when others are fearful,” put up $5 billion for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. after the firm lost 40 percent of ... Read more »

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Firts authorized Buffett biography reveals flaws, recounts triumphs

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September 20, 2008 2:48 pm

The tale of how the brilliant but needy Buffett built a fortune by investing in undervalued companies is recounted in the first authorized biography of the chairman and ... Read more »

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Buffett’s $4.7 Billion Power Play

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September 19, 2008 2:27 pm

Warren Buffett, the famous bargain-hunting billionaire, is in deal mode again. MidAmerican Energy, a division of Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, has snapped up Constellation Energy for $4.7 billion. It could ... Read more »

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Buffett expects government action on Fannie and Freddie

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August 22, 2008 11:26 am

Warren Buffett said the U.S. economy is unlikely to improve before 2009, and that he expects the government to take action to support troubled mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie ... Read more »

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CNBC does 3 Hours special with Warren Buffett Live

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11:22 am

 check it out at CNBC here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/26337294   LIVE BLOG OF WARREN BUFFETT’S APPEARANCES ON CNBC’S SQUAWK BOX THIS MORNING.  BUFFETT SPOKE WITH BECKY QUICK LIVE AT THE HOLLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA.    

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Billionaires say US debts need attention

Filed under Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway, Peter G. Peterson - Blackstone
11:19 am

Two billionaires used the screening of a documentary in theaters across the United States on Thursday to urge the country to come to grips with its staggering debt load.Warren Buffett ... Read more »

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Buffett spotlights nation’s debt crisis

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August 21, 2008 8:14 pm

     The catastrophe looming in the documentary “I.O.U.S.A.” isn’t romantic like the doomed young love in “Titanic,” but billionaires Warren Buffett and Pete Peterson warn it could break many ... Read more »

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Buffet & Pete Peterson cash in on current gloom. Release movie I.O.U.S.A.

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August 20, 2008 11:26 am

These two billionaires are behind doom & gloom movie discussing America´s debt crisis called I.O.U.S.A. that was released last night.   Here is the website of the movie:    http://www.iousathemovie.com/ Wake up, America! We’re on ... Read more »

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Authorized Warren Buffett biography due September 29

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August 11, 2008 8:30 pm

The long-awaited authorized biography of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, the first written with his cooperation, is scheduled for release on September 29, the publisher said on Monday. The 976-page book is ... Read more »

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Buffett Builds Berkshire Holdings as Earnings Decline

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August 8, 2008 7:40 pm

Devotees of Warren Buffett’s investing strategy may need to look no farther for a bargain than the battered stock of the billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.“Regardless of what’s happening to earnings, ... Read more »

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Buffett’s Berkshire Has Worst First Half Since 1990

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July 2, 2008 2:26 pm

It must be a bear market because even billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has slumped almost 20 percent since December.The decline exceeds the drop of the Standard & Poor’s ... Read more »

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Lunch With Buffett?—Just $2.1M

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June 29, 2008 2:14 pm

 Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay. Zhao Danyang ... Read more »

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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett discusses the economy and InBev’s bid for Anheuser Busch, with CNBC’s Becky Quick

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June 25, 2008 5:22 pm

 watch it at CNBC here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=778195470

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Buffett sees “long, deep” U.S. recession

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May 25, 2008 2:15 pm

The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect, U.S. investor Warren Buffett said in an interview published ... Read more »

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Buffett’s All My Children Role

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May 8, 2008 3:53 pm

watch the video here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=734363954

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Buffett Hints at Targets for His Global Buying Spree

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May 4, 2008 6:20 pm

Billionaire Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is hunting for takeovers outside the U.S., said a subsidiary is “probably close” to a U.K. purchase.Buffett, speaking at a press conference today ... Read more »

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Buffett Passes Gates as Richest Person, Forbes Says

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Bill Gates - Microsoft, Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway
March 5, 2008 11:46 pm

Warren Buffett beat out Bill Gates for the top spot on Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires worldwide, ending a 13- year reign for Microsoft Corp.’s co-founder.  Buffett’s wealth increased $10 billion to about $62 billion in the 12 months through Feb. 11, mostly from a gain in his company’s shares.  See the 2008 Forbe´s  Billionaires list here:  http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html

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Buffett Talks to CNBC viewers, say US in recession

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March 3, 2008 3:13 pm

He said the environment is “nothing like ‘73 or ‘74 yet,” referring to a deep economic downturn also marked by rising oil prices, higher inflation and falling stocks.  watch the video here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=671162349

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Berkshire’s Net Falls 18% on Lower Insurance Prices

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March 2, 2008 4:00 pm

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said fourth-quarter profit fell 18 percent on declining insurance rates.Net income decreased to $2.95 billion, or $1,904 a share, from $3.58 billion, or ... Read more »

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Buffett Says U.S. Trade Imbalance Lures Sovereign Wealth Funds

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March 1, 2008 4:04 pm

 Billionaire investor Warren Buffett stepped into a debate about the emergence of sovereign wealth funds, saying the government-controlled firms are fueled by U.S. spending overseas, not political motives.“This is our ... Read more »

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Buffett’s Son Plans Beijing Visit to Pitch Shows, Xinhua Says

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February 20, 2008 3:42 pm

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s son Peter is part of a U.S. delegation that may pitch the staging of his musical “Spirit, The Seventh Fire” and other arts projects in China ... Read more »

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Warren Buffett: Playing Bridge Theoretically More Interesting Than Naked Woman

Filed under Bill Gates - Microsoft, Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway
February 19, 2008 8:09 pm

Don’t let the near silence make you think the room isn’t filled with fear, tension, excitement and exhilaration. Bridge players become masters of hiding their emotions - and they are ... Read more »

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Billionaire to billionaire: Warren, it won’t work.

Filed under Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway, Wilbur Ross - WL Ross
February 13, 2008 1:23 pm

Turnaround specialist Wilbur Ross said Wednesday he does not expect Warren Buffett’s offer to reinsure $800 billion of municipal bond debt to succeed. “If it went through, it would be ... Read more »

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Ackman calls Buffett plan: A bluff

Filed under Hedge funds, Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway, William Ackman - Pershing Square
February 12, 2008 7:50 pm

  “ He’s calling the bond insurers’ bluff,” said Bill Ackman, head of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, a hedge fund firm that’s been shorting, or betting against, shares of MBIA ... Read more »

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Warren Buffett Offers to Reinsure $800B in Municipal Bonds

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1:34 pm

Warren Buffett tells CNBC this morning that he has a plan to help the troubled bond insurance situation, but so far it’s not getting a very warm reception. In a ... Read more »

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Warren Buffett Tells CNBC He Has Plan for Bond Insurers

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1:12 pm

Warren Buffett tells CNBC this morning that he has a plan to help the troubled bond insurers. In a live telephone call to Squawk Box just a few minutes ago, ... Read more »

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Buffett: Dollar ‘Worthless’ If Acct Deficit Persists

Filed under Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway, Predictions
February 7, 2008 10:55 pm

he is nuts on this one! —— TORONTO (Dow Jones)–Billionaire Warren Buffett said Wednesday that the U.S. dollar will be “worthless” if the country keeps sending more money abroad than ... Read more »

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