Warren Buffett has long been seen as one of the titans of the finance industry. CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, billionaire and master strategist, when Warren Buffett identifies a good investment, the whole financial community sits up and takes notice. As a result, when Buffett-backed company, MidAmerican Renewables, began snapping up some of the biggest solar-energy […]
Berkshire Hathaway’s Q2 financial results are out. Operating earnings came in at $2,384 per share. This is up 5.8% year-over-year. This was also well ahead of the $2,166 per share forecasted by analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. The stock closed at $176,500 per share today. Berkshire Hathaway is the massive holding company of billionaire Warren Buffett. […]
Back in 2008 when the market was in the sewer, Warren Buffett wrote a piece laying out the case for buying American stocks called, “Buy American. I Am.” Now that the market seems to be going nowhere but up, an analyst has posted the exact opposite case for stocks on SumZero, a networking site for […]
Since the beginning of the year, our pension fund clients have become increasingly worried about a sharp selloff in the bond market. They’ve seen yields tick up, heard the warnings of Pimco’s Bill Gross and have watched Warren Buffett issue $2.6 billion in long-term debt despite Berkshire Hathaway’s mountains of cash. All point to a bond market bubble […]
This morning, Warren Buffett spoke about Apple‘s stock price on CNBC’s Squawk Box. He had some advice for Tim Cook: Ignore Greenlight Capital‘s David Einhorn. Einhorn recently filed — then dropped — a lawsuit against Apple; Einhorn wants Apple to create a preferred stock that pays a dividend in perpetuity. “I would ignore him,” Buffet […]
Every year, investors look forward Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway annual report, and it’s not because they love analyzing the holding companies expenses. The report is valuable because it comes with a letter from the Oracle of Omaha discussing his thoughts on markets, investing, finance and more. So to get you ready for this year’s letter, […]
This sounds really fun. From Warren Buffett’s letter, a plan to spice up his annual shareholder meeting. Finally – to spice things up – we would like to add to the panel a credentialed bear on Berkshire, preferably one who is short the stock. Not yet having a bear identified, we would like to hear […]