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Warren Buffett Weekly Roundup -- Dec. 26

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:51:53 -0700

Here is the weekly roundup of news articles concerning Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway this week. I'll do this here every Saturday: 1. Warren Buffett to help promote Hank Paulson's "On the Brink." Click here. 2. Ber...

Warren Buffett/Berkshire Hathaway weekly roundup

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:41:57 -0700

Below is a review of some interesting articles regarding Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway from the past week (some by me, some by others). This is a new feature I plan to do here on Saturdays. 1. Ancestry.com reveals that Barack Obama and...

Ben Stein dishes with Warren Buffett (Video)

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:36:25 -0700

Ben Stein dined with Warren Buffett at an Italian restaurant this week and spoke yesterday with Fox Business News about the experience. The well-known actor, writer and economist said he spoke with Buffett on a wide range of personal and econo...

Warren Buffett's high-tech friendships include Sergey Brin

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:51 -0700

For a guy so frequently portrayed as a tech-averse dinosaur, Warren Buffett sure runs with some movers and shakers in the world of technology. Buffett and his wife had dinner in Omaha, Neb., with Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Brin'...

Mareen Duvall links Warren Buffett, Barack Obama

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:00:26 -0700

Mareen Duvall, an early American settler, links Barack Obama and Warren Buffett, the Web site Ancestry.com reported today. Buffett and Obama are seventh cousins, three times removed, according to numerous reports including thi...

Wells Fargo TARP repayment to dilute Berkshire Hathaway stake

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:53:27 -0700

Wells Fargo's TARP repayment will free the San Francisco-based bank from the yoke of the federal government, but it will dilute Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and other shareholders. Wells Fargo announced tonight that it will repa...

Warren Buffett dumps another 3.5 million shares of Moody's Corp.

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:26:26 -0700

Warren Buffett sold another 3.5 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway's stake in Moody's Corp. Thursday, Friday and today, according to a filing with the SEC. Buffett sold the shares, which are owned by Berkshire's National Indemnit...

XTO Energy latest Fort Worth, Texas company in mega-deal

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:39:29 -0700

XTO Energy is the second Fort Worth, Tex.-based company involved in a huge takeover deal in less than two months. ExxonMobil announced today that it will buy XTO Energy in an all-stock deal valued at $41 billion including debt. L...

Warren Buffett: More, not all, cars will be electric in 20 years

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:53:36 -0700

"Far more," but not all, cars will be electric in 20 years, Warren Buffett told the Omaha World-Herald in an e-mail. Buffett has been widely quoted for telling a Rice University business class last month that all electric cars w...

Warren Buffett: Best deals ones he didn't do for Berkshire Hathaway

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:34:16 -0700

Warren Buffett has put billions of dollars of Berkshire Hathaway's capital to work over the past 18 months, taking advantage of unprecedented turmoil in the financial markets. But Buffett says perhaps his best decisions over the past 18 mo...

Burlington Northern sets Feb. 11 vote on Berkshire Hathaway deal

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:41:20 -0700

Shareholders of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. will vote Feb. 11 on whether to approve the takeover offer of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. BNSF shareholders will vote on the deal at a special meeting scheduled for 9 a.m. central...

Shakira, Warren Buffett's son team up on new book "Fragile"

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:11:25 -0700

Howard Buffett has published a new book of photographs that documents the world's poor. Amazon Related articles Warren Buffett's son helping to fight global hunger Warren Buffett-backed charities getting results Warren Buffet...

Warren Buffett continues to unload Moody's Corp. stock

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:21:25 -0700

Warren Buffett continues to unload Berkshire Hathaway's investment in credit-rating firm Moody's Corp. Berkshire Hathaway sold about 2.7 million shares in Moody's on Monday and Tuesday this week, according to a filing yesterday wit...

Warren Buffett biographer: Berkshire Hathaway will pay a dividend

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:10:06 -0700

Berkshire Hathaway will "almost certainly" pay a dividend in the post-Warren Buffett era, Buffett biographer Alice Schroeder argues in an online interview. Schroeder, the author of "The Snowball" biography on Buffett, ...

Burlington Northern inching toward Berkshire Hathaway's price

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:42:35 -0700

The stock of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. today closed at its highest price since Berkshire Hathaway announced it would take over the Texas-based railroad -- a sign that investors are growing increasingly confident the deal will go thro...

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway one step closer to Burlington Northern deal

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:02:35 -0700

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is one step closer to completing its planned acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. Berkshire has received anti-trust clearance from the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Justice Department, B...

Legal battle begins in Berkshire Hathaway's Burlington Northern deal

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:32:28 -0700

The legal battle over Berkshire Hathaway's planned $26 billion acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. has begun. Lawyers representing shareholders of BNSF who think the takeover deal undervalues the railroad company ha...

People of Walmart gives props to Warren Buffett

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:54:59 -0700

People of Walmart is giving some props to Warren Buffett, and it's got nothing to do with Berkshire Hathaway's $2 billion investment in the retail giant. Peopleofwalmart.com, which is in no way affiliated with Walmart the company,...

Special Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting set for Jan. 20

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:39:34 -0700

A special Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting has been scheduled for Jan. 20 in Omaha, Neb., to vote on matters related to the company's planned acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. Berkshire filed an SEC document tod...

Article shows David Sokol's challenges at NetJets

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:16:41 -0700

The New York Times has a good article about the challenges David Sokol faces in turning around both the culture and financial results at Berkshire Hathaway unit NetJets.

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