Buffett, Gates to answer student questions in NY
Seattle Times
Billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates will meet with Columbia University business students on Thursday and answer their questions about business and life. The world's two-richest men planned this forum at Columbia because Buffett earne...
The More Focused, and More Opaque, Buffet...
The Business Insider
This was an important week for investment guru and billionaire watchers to see which gurus were holding which stocks. The full public equity holdings of Warren Buffett via Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) were particularly of note ...
Pimco’s Gross Says Risk of Asset Bubble Rises With Low Rates
Bloomberg
Gross advised following the lead of Warren Buffett and buying utilities because their earning growth will mimic U.S. economic growth and provide steady dividend income.
Buffett, Gates tell students worst is behind us
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Associated Press Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corp. and billionaire investor Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speak during a taping of CNBC television special at Columbia University on Thursday in New York. NEW YORK -- Capita...
Buffett Says U.S. Should Put Pressure on CEOs of Rescued Firms
Bloomberg
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett , the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. , said the U.S. should demand greater sacrifices from the heads of bailed- out companies. Buffett protected Omaha, Nebraska-based Ber...
The Preferred Play On FPL
Forbes
During the depths of the financial crisis last year, when large blue-chip firms were temporarily short of cash and needed it desperately to continue operating, investors like Warren Buffett stepped up and forked over the cash, in return for...
Orbis opposes Canon's takeover bid for Dutch printer maker
the Royal Gazette
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Orbis Funds, the asset manager that opposed takeover offers by Warren Buffett and Citigroup Inc., rejected Canon Inc.'s 730 million euro ($1.1 billion) bid to buy unprofitable Dutch printer maker Oce NV ...
Warren Buffett Goes Shopping
Town Hall
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. It's not surprising that mimicking Warren Buffett's moves over the years would leave you well ahead of the pack. That's why it's great news that as an elephant-sized investment vehicle, Buffett's Berkshire H...
3 Stocks on Buffett's Wish List?
Motley Fool
It was a tough year for the world's richest man -- according to data from Forbes , Warren Buffett's net worth declined in value by a staggering $25 billion in 2008. So let's not be too hard on ourselves if we, too, owned a few stocks that l...
Memo to Warren Buffett: Put Down the Pompoms and Tell Us the Truth ...
WTKR
Difficult times need wise men to tell difficult truths. And, for many years, Warren Buffett, the "Sage of Omaha," has done just that. For example, he was one of the first to sound the alarm about the danger of derivatives, warning in 2003 t...
Time only will revive Goldman's old aura
Daily Telegraph
Its $500m plan to support 10,000 US small businesses alongside Warren Buffett is praiseworthy. But some $17bn in accrued pay for nine months of work and continuing rumblings of bailout favouritism risk making it look nothing but a PR gestur...
Financial panic' over, Warren Buffet says
Globe and Mail
C apitalism is still alive and well, say the world's two richest men, despite lingering shocks from the longest, deepest recession since the Great Depression. “The financial panic is behind us,” said famed investor Warren Buffett, who recen...
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Share Their 'Optimism' With Columbia ...
CNBC
Gates flashes a Harvard 'H' as he appears with Warren Buffett before Columbia University students Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are now answering questions from about 700 Columbia University students gathered for a televised CNBC Town Hall ...
Warren Buffett
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates will meet with Columbia University business students on Thursday and answer their questions about business and life. The world's two-richest men planned this forum at Columbia be...