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Posts Tagged ‘ Berkshire Hathaway ’

Mr Market’s Advanced Seminar on Economic Corrections

Nov 17th, 2008 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Financial News

The Dow dropped another 338 points on Friday. How much more of this can investors take? Berkshire Hathaway fell below $100,000. And GM appeared to be heading for the junkyard.



Berkshire Hathaway’s Mystery $3.5bn Spending Spree

Aug 28th, 2008 | By Jason Simpkins | Category: Stock Market Investing

With the stock market in turmoil, it’s a good time to check in on what Warren Buffett is doing with his portfolio. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A, BRK.B) has struggled in the first half of the year. Money Morning’s Jason Simpkins says $3.5 billion of Berkshire’s recent $4-billion shopping spree is still unaccounted for…



InBev Offers Anheuser $46.3 Billion, a Deal That Would the Create World’s Largest Brewer

Jun 13th, 2008 | By Mike Caggeso | Category: Politics & Economics

After two weeks of nail-biting speculation, InBev NV pulled the trigger on its takeover offer to Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. (BUD), putting up a $46.3 billion, or $65 per share, cash bid for the U.S. market leader.



As Buffett Places Bets Abroad, Your Profits May Still Be in the U.S.

May 30th, 2008 | By Wayne Mulligan | Category: Stock Market Investing

Today, we have another recession proof way to score big money, while even Buffett is fleeing this country. Wayne even includes a few smaller companies that should do handsomely over the next few months.



Bill Gates Buys Stake In Carpetright

May 29th, 2008 | By Theo Casey | Category: International Investing

When Philip Harris, now Lord / Baron Harris of Peckham, set up his first Carpetright on the Manor road, Canning town in 1988 he can’t have imagined it would all come to this.



The Value Investor’s Stock Market

May 27th, 2008 | By Theo Casey | Category: International Investing

Bowing to peer pressure from Eurocentric readers, today’s comment focuses squarely on opportunities in European indexes, or should that be ‘bourses.’



Warren Buffett, the ‘Oracle of Omaha’, Tells German Audiences That the U.S. Economy is in a Deep Recession

May 27th, 2008 | By William Patalon III | Category: Politics & Economics

The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect, U.S. investment guru Warren Buffett said in an interview published Saturday in the German magazine Der Spiegel.



Germany, Warren Buffett Likes It, and So Do We

May 21st, 2008 | By Martin Hutchinson | Category: International Investing

Investors have been watching Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A, BRK.B) Chairman Warren Buffett’s moves for years to see which investments are going to take off next.



For Buffett & Co., There’s Value in Demographics

May 12th, 2008 | By Greg Gunner Guenthner | Category: Stock Market Investing

The media have dubbed it “the new age of epidemics.” From SARS to cancer, diabetes to the flu, we live in a world of increasingly powerful germs and diseases.



The Dollar’s Ugly Stepsister Takes on the Yen

May 9th, 2008 | By Jack Crooks | Category: International Investing

You can’t deny 2007 was the year of living dangerously in financial markets. So far this losing streak has continued through the first quarter—with the notable exception of soaring commodity markets!