Berkshire Hathaway News

Warren Buffett met with students from Rice Universitya TMs graduate school of business yesterday.

Q Do any mutual funds mirror Berkshire Hathaway's investment style? - D.G., online A Be careful.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged U.S. banks to boost lending to small businesses and consumers who still face a oevery challenginga credit conditions and rising unemployment.

BNSF has the capacity to supply coal to meet 10% of U.S. electricity needs. Wikipedia Commons, Jaako Warren Buffett recently threw down $26 million for roughly a 77% stake in the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Corporation.

If you think that FPL is a good stock to own down the road, get paid while you wait to own it.

Warren Buffett's flip-flop could bring new investors to Berkshire and more volume to its shares.

Hershey Co. may make a $17 billion bid for UK candy company Cadbury PLC, topping the recent $16.5 billion hostile offer by Kraft Foods Inc., the Wall Street Journal reports Friday.

Shares of CSX Corp. edged down in premarket trading Friday as an analyst downgraded the railroad, saying its share price has moved too high.

When it comes to riding out the Great Recession, we're No. 1. Forbes on Thursday put Omaha-Council Bluffs at the top of its list of the nation's fastest-recovering major metropolitan areas.

True penny stocks are a minefield, but small-cap copper beauties can be one way to easily double your money .

Billionaire Warren Buffett's company has purchased a nearly $60 million stake in Exxon Mobil Corp., trimmed holdings in oil rival ConocoPhillips and nearly doubled its stake in Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

The planned purchase of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway could cause a change in how the Surface Transportation Board calculates a key cost formula that helps it shape some rail freight rates.

So now we know the value Goldman Sachs Group Inc. places on salving its conscience for screwing up what Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein called ''God's work.'' It seems that $500 million is all it takes to compensate the world for Goldman's role in creating the credit crunch.

As Warren Buffett looks forward to an improving world economy, he is betting on chocolate, energy and discount retailing, at least according to the latest filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York detailing positions taken by his investment holding giant, Berkshire Hathaway, in public companies.

Recently, Berkshire filed its mandatory disclosures detailing its positions in various securities.

The anti-sweatshop movement at dozens of American universities, from Georgetown to U.C.L.A. , has had plenty of idealism and energy, but not many victories.

Berkshire Hathaway has released a new 13-F filing Monday which reveals the composition of the company's equity portfolio as of September 30, 2009.

Goldman Sachs Group, stung by criticism over executive bonuses and actions that helped trigger last year's economic near-collapse, said Tuesday that it would join other groups and Omaha financier Warren Buffett in a national five-year, $500 million program to help small businesses in low-income areas.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , under fire in Washington for setting aside billions of dollars for bonuses a year after getting a taxpayer bailout, said ita s teaming up with Warren Buffett to provide assistance to 10,000 small businesses in the U.S. The $500 million charitable effort coincides with one of the Obama administrationa s top economic ...

Berkshire Hathaway has a lot of equity: its book value is about $125 billion. And since equity is forever, it makes sense for Berkshire to have a very long time horizon when it comes to buying assets.