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 Buffett Has Worst Year Ever 


Feb 28, 09 10:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Not even legendary investors can escape this mess. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway posted its worst year ever in 2008, the Wall Street Journal reports. A key indicator, book value per share, fell 9.6%, only the second loss since Buffett took control of the company in 1965. Berkshire... More »

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Warren Buffett • shareholders • profits • Omaha • investments • recession • Berkshire Hathaway • quarterly reports • insurance industry

Buffett Loans Billions to
Swiss Re

Insurance giant turns
to Omaha after heavy annual loss

Feb 5, 09 8:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Insurance giant Swiss Re has reported an annual loss of $860 million and will turn to Warren Buffett to retain its investment-grade rating, the Financial Times reports. The company will raise $2.58 billion, of which more than half will come from Berkshire Hathaway—leaving Buffett with more than 20%... More »

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Warren Buffett • insurance • Berkshire Hathaway • financial crisis • Swiss Re

Told-On Buffett Cools Toward Tell-All Author

Billionaire not thrilled with messy details of warts-and-all bio

Feb 4, 09 10:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Billionaire Warren Buffett has canceled his annual public tête-à-tête with his biographer after the book they collaborated on left him with mixed feelings, reports the New York Times. For the past decade, the Oracle of Omaha has submitted to questions from Alice Schroeder during a huge dinner... More »

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Warren Buffett • biography • Berkshire Hathaway • Alice Schroeder • Astrid Buffett • Susan Buffett

ANALYSIS


 These 5 People 
 Lost the Most 
 This Year 

Think your 401(k) has taken a hit? One tycoon has taken a $32B bath

Nov 26, 08 2:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Think you've taken a bath in the markets? Business Sheet compiles this year's five biggest losers:
  1. Warren Buffet Loss: $13.6 billion. Though he’s bought when others wouldn’t and come to the rescue of many (Goldman and GE, to start), losses dropped the famed investor’s
... More »

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Warren Buffett • list • Lakshmi Mittal • Mittal Steel • Sheldon Adelson • Mukesh Ambani • financial crisis

Brutal Market
Doesn't
Spare Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway takes biggest
dive in decades

Nov 20, 08 3:53 AM CST
(Newser) - The "Oracle of Omaha" is proving even he's not immune from market blows, reports Bloomberg. Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway took a 12% nosedive yesterday, its biggest one-day fall since 1987's Black Monday. The conglomerate is down 41% for the year and has been dropping steadily for eight days after... More »

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investing • Warren Buffett • investment • Berkshire Hathaway • Oracle of Omaha • share price • credit default swap

OPINION

Obama, McCain Take Fight
to Pages of Journal

Rivals sounds familiar themes with columns in conservative newspaper

Nov 3, 08 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama and John McCain are appearing together today on one battleground—the opinion pages of the conservative Wall Street Journal. Obama sticks almost exclusively with economics, mentioning the paper’s own reservations with McCain’s housing rescue plan. He’s also quick to remind readers in upper tax brackets... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Wall Street Journal • Warren Buffett • Election 2008 • economy

Obama Donors Get to Hang With the Big Kids

Fundraisers with Kerry, Buffett kept the fat checks coming in

Oct 29, 08 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s money machine has kept rolling thanks, in part, to a series of intimate fundraisers headlined by his top advisers, Politico reports. In exchange for a mere $28,500, Obama supporters could snag seats at a dinner with Warren Buffett or a “Round Table Discussion” with Robert... More »

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Barack Obama • John Kerry • campaign finance • Warren Buffett • fundraiser • Robert Rubin • Election 2008

OPINION

 Media Feeds Markets' Frenzy 

'Volatility news cycle' as bad for traders as it is for nervous investors

Oct 24, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Is the media behind the rampant volatility gripping Wall Street? It can’t be helping, longtime observer Roger Ehrenberg writes for Information Arbitrage. CNBC, Fox Business, and others recycle countless talking heads, each with passionate and conflicting views. “Media is motivated to evoke a reaction,” Ehrenberg reasons, so... More »

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media • stock market • Warren Buffett • news • CNBC • Fox Business Network • financial crisis

Wall Street's Tumble Costs Buffett $9.6B

Top CEOs have taken a 28% hit in the value of their company holdings

Oct 23, 08 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Next time you check the value of your portfolio, know that America's top executives are taking a pounding with you: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has seen his holdings in his company decline $9.6 billion this year, reports the Wall Street Journal. And he’s got company. Oracle’... More »

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Warren Buffett • Larry Ellison • Steve Ballmer • Jeff Bezos • financial crisis

OPINION

Buffett: I'm Buying American. You Should Be, Too.

When fear is rampant, the markets discount America's future

Oct 17, 08 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - “I’ve been buying American stocks,” Warren Buffett writes in the New York Times, and he'd like to see a stampede of others following suit. Sure, the financial system is a mess, global economies are faltering, unemployment is rising, and headlines will continue to terrorize markets. But markets... More »

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investing • Warren Buffett • stocks • America • financial markets • Oracle of Omaha • financial crisis

Market Meltdown Reshapes Forbes Rich List

Buffett bumps Gates
in redrawn rankings
of world's wealthiest

Oct 10, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mortgage meltdown has certainly hit middle-class Americans hard but hasn't spared the uber-wealthy, Bloomberg reports. Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson’s net worth shed $4 billion between Aug. 29 and Oct. 1, for instance, while Warren Buffett overtook Bill Gates, whose net worth declined $1.5 billion, as... More »

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Google • stock market • Microsoft • Dell • Bill Gates • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • Forbes 400 • Carl Icahn • Warren Buffett • Larry Ellison • Oracle • Michael Dell • billionaire • Berkshire Hathaway • Las Vegas Sands Corp. • Oracle of Omaha • Sheldon Adelson • Charles Ergen

Candidates Diverge on Picking the Next Paulson

McCain looks to big names; Obama seeks to sooth markets

Oct 7, 08 5:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The post of Treasury secretary may be the most important appointment the next president has to make and John McCain and Barack Obama seem to be using different criteria, Bloomberg reports. McCain has mentioned big names like billionaire investor Warren Buffett and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, while insiders say... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Warren Buffett • Henry Paulson • Treasury Department • Meg Whitman • Robert Rubin • Election 2008 • Treasury secretary • Timothy Geithner

 In Crisis, Buffett Is 
 Modern JP Morgan 

'Oracle of Omaha' offers financial, psychological help to stressed America

Oct 6, 08 1:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amid the financial panic of 1907, financier JP Morgan stepped in to play the role of central bank, crafting an economic rescue plan and using his personality to offer worried Americans a psychological boost. Today, Warren Buffett’s financial aid to Wall Street and calming influence on Main Street are... More »

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Goldman Sachs • Warren Buffett • General Electric • credit crisis • economy • financial crisis

 Buffett Grabs 
 $3B Chunk of GE 

Shrewd market player aiming for windfall after chaos clears

Oct 2, 08 3:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mega-pockets investor Warren Buffett is sinking $3 billion into General Electric, whose share prices have slumped a third amid the financial chaos on Wall Street, Reuters reports. Buffet, 78, negotiated a 10% dividend, which could generate $300 million income a year. The move comes a week after he invested $5... More »

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Congress • NBC • Goldman Sachs • Warren Buffett • General Electric • bailout • Coca-Cola Co

Buffett Gains
Big Say on Nuclear Power

New deal gives longtime skeptic clout about industry's future

Sep 26, 08 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Warren Buffett’s $4.7 billion agreement to rescue Constellation Energy Group this week netted the billionaire investor more than just a utility. Buffett now will have a big say in the future of nuclear power in the US, the Wall Street Journal reports. He has long been skeptical of... More »

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nuclear power • Warren Buffett • Berkshire Hathaway • nuclear facilities • nuclear power plant • energy policy

For Buffett, Goldman Deal Was a Snap

But if Congress doesn't pass Treasury's bailout, he'll 'get killed'

Sep 25, 08 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Billionaire Warren Buffett has been getting a lot of calls lately from struggling Wall Street firms looking for a savior, from Bear Stearns to Lehman Brothers to AIG. He’s turned them all down, the Wall Street Journal reports, but when Goldman Sachs called Tuesday, the Oracle of Omaha ponied... More »

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Goldman Sachs • Warren Buffett • Bear Stearns • Lehman Brothers • Lloyd Blankfein • bailout • financial crisis

MARKETS

 Stocks Flat Amid Bailout Wait 

Housing sales decline; Buffet boosts Goldman

Sep 24, 08 3:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks swung between gains and losses today as the proposed financial bailout continued to dominate conversation but remained unsettled. The technology-rich Nasdaq was more insulated from the swings, and closed up 2.35 at 2,155.68. The Dow lost 29.00 to close at 10,825.17, while the... More »

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Citigroup • Goldman Sachs • Dow Jones • Warren Buffett • Nasdaq • AIG • S&P 500 • financial crisis

Women Tower
in Buffett's Biography

Oracle of Omaha needed 'to be loved
and never criticized'

Sep 24, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Warren Buffett’s personal life is a lot messier than his balance sheet, according to a biography. In The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life, which hits stores Monday, the Oracle of Omaha for the first time cooperates with a biographer, producing a revealing look at the... More »

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Warren Buffett • marriage • money • biography • relationship • book • Oracle of Omaha

Goldman Raises $10B After Buffett's Buy-in

New stock offering
nets twice as much
as bank expected

Sep 24, 08 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Where Warren Buffett goes, investors follow. Goldman’s new stock offering pulled in $5 billion this morning, twice the $2.5 billion the firm expected, as investors followed Buffett’s lead, Bloomberg reports. That extra money, combined with Buffett’s $5 billion investment, “should quickly end credit-market debate about... More »

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Goldman Sachs • Warren Buffett • capital • Berkshire Hathaway • stock offering

MARKETS

 Buffett's Goldman Buy 
 Stabilizes Stocks 

Sage of Omaha backs Paulson

Sep 24, 08 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks rose slightly at the open, reports the Wall Street Journal, buoyed by Warren Buffett’s $5 billion vote of confidence in Goldman Sachs. The Dow Jones rose 21 points, while the S&P rose 0.3%, and the Nasdaq 0.9%. Capitol Hill will again command Wall Street's attention... More »

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Congress • stock market • Goldman Sachs • Dow Jones • Warren Buffett • markets • financial crisis

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