Berkshire Hathaway Inc
NYSE: BRK-B
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Closing Price on September 20, 2024
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Crude oil refiners have enjoyed a pretty good earnings season so far. Tesoro Corp. (NYSE: TSO) and Western Refining Inc. (NYSE: WNR) both posted better-than-expected revenues and profits this...
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Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) is often considered the greatest investor in modern times. Some of us think that his status should be one of “The greatest...
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Railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (NYSE: GWR) announced this morning that it would acquire RailAmerica Inc. (NYSE: RA) for $27.50 per share in an all-cash deal worth about $1.39 billion....
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Shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are up about 8% in the early afternoon on the company’s announcement that it has now installed another 100 megawatts of solar panels at its Agua Caliente...
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At last week’s Rio+20 conference in Brazil, a representative of Standard & Poor’s Latin American office told a panel on sustainable development that “banks and utilities are unlikeloy to...
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If you have watched the flow of news out of Asia and Europe over the last month, you might have had a reason to think that the world was going to hell in a handbasket. One week of a market...
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The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning despite the refusal of the European Central Bank to lower its interest rates (our story here) and a lower-than-expected rise in US labor...
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Lee Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: LEE) is a tiny media company with news and advertising. It serves midsize and small markets in the United States with 52 daily and 39 Sunday newspapers, as well as with...
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Four market markers involved in the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO lose $100 million combined. (Reuters) EU concerns push the euro to close to a two-year low. (Reuters) Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) will...
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When Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B)(NYSE: BRK-A) made the acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the speculation was that more rail mergers could be expected. After...
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DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA) is facing a bit of a drag on its announcement that it is spending some $4.4 billion to acquire HealthCare Partners. This is a transformative deal because DaVita is the...
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Alibaba will buy back 20% of its shares held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). The consideration Yahoo! will get is $7.1 billion. That sum is “composed of at least $6.3 billion in cash proceeds and up to...
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The 16-member board of directors of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (NYSE: CP) today includes 7 new members nominated by William Ackman and his hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management. The new...
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It is no secret that the newspaper business has not been a good sector over the last decade. Subscriptions declined about as fast as the number of smokers did in the 1990s. The business model of...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of March...
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