Warren Buffett News

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett was a Western New York visitor Tuesday, when he came Amherst to help celebrate a milestone reached by one of the many companies he owns --GEICO.

So far, the answer from the bond market has been quite a lot. Ever since Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke indicated about a month ago that the Fed might slow its bond buying stimulus program, the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond has risen nearly 0.6 percentage points to 2.2%.

Last month, Fortune magazine published its annual "Fortune 500" list, with Apple Inc. ranking sixth, making a big jump from last year's spot in 17th place.

Warren Buffett is widely considered to be the most successful investor of the 20th century.

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On March 13, 2013, Berkshire Hathaway bought 6,508,600 shares of Chicago Bridge & Iron Company .

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Passive index funds have been gaining massive popularity among retail investors for the last several years.

Chicago Bridge & Iron is a very interesting company that has hit the screens of many investors recently since Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed its over 6.5 million share purchase.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that consumer prices, less energy and food, rose last month by only 0.2% compared to April.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has a totally market capitalization of $284 billion.

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Kai Petainen, who teaches investments at the University of Michigan's Ross Graduate School of Business and contributes to Forbes , has built a quantitative model that predicts which stocks institutional investors are going to find attractive.

What do I make of comments from PIMCO's Bill Gross...that he's projecting a 60% chance of a global recession in the next three to five years? Now, Bill Gross is obviously one of the most powerful men in the world.

We have been analyzing and evaluating the newspaper companies that Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway has invested in the past and has invested in recently over the last twelve months.

FAB Universal , a worldwide distributor of digital entertainment, today announced that international financier and Quantum Fund co-founder, Jim Rogers, was named to the board of directors of FAB Universal today.

Investing star Anthony Bolton is to retire from running his Fidelity China Special Situations Fund next year, ending a difficult tenure that has threatened to blemish one of the City's most glittering careers.

The S&P 500 fell nearly 10% in June 2008, and investors began to brace for an eventual market crash later in the year.

Procter & Gamble has been a consumer staple since 1837, and is still one of the most admired companies in the world.