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Buffett rented good name to Goldman too cheaply
At the height of the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs sold Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway $5 billion of perpetual preferred stock with a 10 percent dividend and warrants on $5 billion worth of common stock at a strike price of $115 a share. This package gave Berkshire a return of more than 15 percent in exchange for its money and Buffett’s endorsement, which Goldman desperately needed to …
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Prem C. Jain’s ‘Buffett Beyond Value’ Highlights Important Lessons
By Ravi Nagarajan. “How do you beat world chess champion Bobby Fischer? Yes, it is a bit of a trick question. If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, you don’t play chess with him. You find a game that you can win.” – Buffett Beyond Value by Prem Jain Read more » »
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Buffett means flights to Omaha cost more than Paris
Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., left, speaks with Henry Paulson, former U.S. treasury secretary, during a book promotion event, in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Paulson said the U.S. government will be repaid for “every penny” of the funds it put into the country’s banks.
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Buffett Says U.S. Housing Market to Recover in ‘Year or So’
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett said the U.S. will recover from the residential real estate slump by 2011 as demand for houses catches up with the supply that accumulated during the bubble.
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Warren Buffett most-followed ‘guru’ investor
By Bill Freehling. Last summer, a group of commentators on CNBC’s Fast Money declared that Warren Buffett was no longer the most-watched investor in the country. Read more » »
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Buffett Shed Shares Across Several Sectors to End 2009
As the impressive rebound in equities began to tail off as 2009 came to an end, billionaire Warren Buffett was trimming a number of positions held by his firm Berkshire Hathaway.
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Stock split to give masses a piece of Buffett
If you like your investing no-frills and low-cost, prepare for your introduction to Warren Buffett. Investors in mutual funds that track the Standard Poor’s 500 stock index will soon have a stake in the investing legend’s company for the first time.
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Jia Sheng Soars as Li Follows Buffett With Battery Investment
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — Jia Sheng Holdings Ltd. jumped the most in six years after agreeing to sell a HK$292 million ($38 million) stake to billionaire Li Ka-shing and announcing plans to buy a maker of batteries for electric vehicles.
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Is Buffett a Better Arbitrage Play After Split?
After a 50-to-1 stock split, Berkshire Hathaway shares have their biggest trading day ever on Thursday, but is it also going to be a new era of arbitrage opportunities between the Berkshire share classes?
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Warren Buffett UNC talk – Part 3 of 6
By Karl. Part 3 includes mention of The Walt Disney Company (ticker: DIS), The Coca-Cola Company (ticker: KO) and Microsoft Corporation (ticker: MSFT). Read more » »
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