Timeless and Time-Tested Warren Buffett Watch Predictions
CNBC via Yahoo! Finance
In keeping with Warren Buffett's long-term way of looking at things, we bring back our timeless and time-tested predictions to mark the coming new year.
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buying Burlington Northern in deal ...
Chicago Tribune
Burlington Northern, the nation's second-largest railroad, is the biggest hauler of food products like corn and coal for electricity, making it an indicator of the country's economic health. The railroad also ships a large amount of goods f...
Warren Buffett goes against his own warning
Nashville Tennessean
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s planned 50-for-1 stock split will put its Class B shares within reach of investors Warren Buffett once called an "inferior" class. The proposed split, announced last week as part of Berkshire's $26 billion takeover...
AIG Reduces Federal Reserve Owed Debt, To Divest ALICO And AIA
Insurance Business Review
It is part of strategic approach towards business expansion ... Addresses the specific exposures contractors face, such as errors and omissions coverage for the var ...
Morning Report: Berkshire Hathaway Hits The Rails
NPR News
Warren Buffett's investment arm, Berkshire Hathaway, announced its purchasing the remaining 77% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe it did not already own for $44 billion in cash and stock. The deal for the nation's second largest railroad is B...
Berkshire Venture Wins Auction for Capmark Loan Unit (Update4)
Bloomberg
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Capmark Financial Group Inc., the bankrupt, commercial property lender, agreed to sell its loan- servicing unit to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to Acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe ...
Forbes
BusinessWire - The boards of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A; BRK.B) and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF; NYSE: BNI) today announced a definitive agreement for Berkshire Hathaway to acquire for $100 per shar...
Berkshire Hathaway buying Burlington Northern railroad
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Associated Press file Idle Burlington Northern Santa Fe locomotives sit in a rail yard in Lincoln, Neb. Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway said Tuesda it has agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe in a deal valuing the railroad at $34 b...
Buffett's Berkshire to buy Santa Fe railway
YAHOO!
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Billionaire investor Warren Buffett unveiled Tuesday a 44-billion-dollar "huge bet" on the US economic future with a bid for the shares it does not already own in Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway. Buffett's Berkshire ...
Tiger's wins, fame likely to deter sponsor losses
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Companies like Nike Inc are not expected to sever their ties with golfer Tiger Woods, who has sponsorship deals worth an estimated $100 million a year, after his weekend car accident, analysts and consultants said on Monday.
David Winters Top Holdings: BRK-B, CTO, GS, BEN, CHK, CNQ
Guru Focus
By guruek. (GuruFocus, November 30) If it is not for 2008, David Winters would be a run-away success in the boutique mutual fund world. Look at the performance of his Wintergreen Fund since inception (10/17/2005), he still beat the S&P 500 ...
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Buffett's railroad buy fits in with Berkshire's strategy
Columbus Dispatch
OMAHA, Neb. -- Billionaire Warren Buffett likes to compare his company to a masterpiece that he's been painting for nearly five decades, and the deal he announced Tuesday will permanently alter the color of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s portrai...