Warren Buffett News

The last time Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s stock price took a sharp tumble, in March 2000, it took five years and five months to get back to its previous high.

Meredith Whitney , the analyst who cut her rating on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. last month, said the bank has lost some of its top-performing employees as executives left to start their own investment companies.

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Nov. 22--David Sokol has had to make painful decisions in his first three months as chief executive of NetJets, the Columbus-based company owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

Warren Buffett's takeover of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. illustrates an emerging trend: Takeovers are back.

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.

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

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

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.

More than most, the PR department at Goldman Sachs must be looking forward to the weekend: It just spent the last few days getting pummeled like Apollo Creed .

November 17, 2009 - " The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. today announced the launch of 10,000 Small Businesses -- a $500 million initiative that will unlock the growth and job-creation potential of 10,000 small businesses across the United States through greater access to business education, mentors and networks, and financial capital.

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.

You know things are awful when Washington politicians seem genuinely concerned about small business, rather than simply spouting the usual platitudes toward an amorphous group that typically lacks the political muscle of Wall Street or unions.

Berkshire Hathaway has released a new 13-F filing today which reveals the composition of the companya TMs equity portfolio as of September 30, 2009.

Geithner: 'The credit crunch is not over' Thain self be true Obama says government won't try to help run GM, Chrysler Chrysler May Drop 145 Dealers on Lack of Financing JPMorgan Buys Rest of Cazenove for 1 Billion Pounds Gold Demand Rises 10% on Investment, Jewelry, Gold Council Says Whitney Says Goldman Sachs Lost - Tremendous' Talent - Bloomberg ...

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - 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.