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Things Go Better With Coke @ Berkshire Shareholder Meeting
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Wowza – Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought stunning 75 million Apple shares in first quarter “It is an unbelievable company,” Buffett says. “If you look at Apple, I think it earns almost twice as much as the second most profitable company in … Continue reading
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The business of America – wbir.com | Railroads offering up to $25,000 in signing bonuses for new hires
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How’s the economy doing?
I’ll vote with Warren… Hey, $15/second off of Goldman Sachs!
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Rein your guy in Colin…
Apparently Colin is getting slightly alarmed at Obama’s grand schemes. Colin Powell, one of President Obama’s most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president’s ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the … Continue reading
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Buffet Stock Holding: Dec 31st 2008
Berkshire Hathaway’s equity holding from Warren Buffett’s 2008 shareholder letter. Note this does not include Moody’s or Burlington Northers Santa Fe due to different accounting treatment since Berkshire owns greater than 20% of the company. Shares Company %Co Owned Cost … Continue reading
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Buffett ’08: Overpricing Risk
From the 2008 Berkshire letter to shareholders… The investment world has gone from underpricing risk to overpricing it. This change has not been minor; the pendulum has covered an extraordinary arc. A few years ago, it would have seemed unthinkable … Continue reading
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Buffett to Obama
Is Obama listening to Warren? Without a doubt… BUFFETT: I think–I think a lot of things should be–job one is to win the war, job–the economic war, job two is to win the economic war, and job three. And you … Continue reading
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If you wait for the robins spring will be over
So says Warren Buffet, explain why he’s buying US stocks in an opinion column in the New York Times. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is buying U.S. stocks, he wrote in an opinion column in the New York Times. “A simple … Continue reading
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The Buffett has landed
Warren Buffett has invested $5 billion in cash into the new and improved Goldman Sachs, now a bank holding company instead of an investment bank. Here’s the deal as reported by CNBC… Berkshire will buy $5 billion of perpetual preferred … Continue reading
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Buffett: …”Wall Street has been kind of a nudist beach”
Buffett says the economy isn’t likely to improve until 2009… Warren Buffett said the U.S. economy is unlikely to improve before 2009, and there was a “reasonable chance” that Fannie Mae (FNM.N) and Freddie Mac (FRE.N) shareholders would be wiped … Continue reading
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Lunch with Buffett
$2.1 million for lunch with Warren. That’s 3x list years bid. The big spender who won this year’s “Power Lunch with Warren Buffett” charity auction with a record high bid of $2,110,100 is Zhao Danyang of the Hong-Kong based Pure … Continue reading
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12 week high for Berkshire
Berkshire Hathaway stock has rallied 11% in the last 10 trading sessions. Look at the increase in trading volume over the last week, especially today.(click to enlarge)
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What did Warren do?
These two articles (here and here) examine what portfolio moves Berkshire Hathaway made in the first quarter. The most insightful comments came from value hedge fund manager Mohnish Pabrai: It turned out to be a fairly quiet quarter in the … Continue reading
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Berkshire holdings, 2008
Below are Berkshire holdings from the 2007 annual report. You can see the holdings reported in the 2006 annual report here.
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How’s Berkshire performed since the shareholder meeting
Not to well, with a 4% loss in the last two days alone (5/9 and 5/12) and an 8% loss since May 2nd. I’m sure Warren’s not bothered in the least, and I had no clue until I captured the … Continue reading
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“Now is the time to invest and get rich.” (1974)
A 1974 Forbes article profiling Warren Buffett, reprinted prior to this years shareholder meeting. His view of the market in 1974… How do you contemplate the current stock market, we asked Warren Buffett, the sage of Omaha, Neb. “Like an … Continue reading
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Forbes summarizes Berkshire shareholder meeting
The Forbes e-mail today contained a May 3rd article on the Berkshire annual meeting. Highlights as Robert Lezner of Forbes saw it; 1. There were more questions about the dams on Oregon’s Klamath River shutting off the salmon run for … Continue reading
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Other Berkshire live blogging
Well not exactly live blogging anymore. Since I got some hits from folks searching for live blogging of the Berkshire meeting, so I took the liberty of searching myself. This was all I found, although Liz Clayman implied she would … Continue reading
Mortgage/subprime and getting rich quick
Buffett and Munger comment… Says he can’t remember a similar crisis in his lifetime in which residential real estate sent “out the shock waves.” But he’s seen many variations on the theme. “There are these primal urges in trying to … Continue reading
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