For years Leucadia National has been known as a miniature Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A).
For decades, the California-based financial titan has been a staple of the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) investment portfolio.
In Q1, BRK had the 2nd worst quarter in the insurance business in terms of catastrophes around the globe.
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The Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A) CEO overpaid because oil prices soon fell.
Most other major insulation industry players are divisions of large conglomerates like Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B, BRK-A), and Saint Gobain (Paris:SGO).
Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRK - news - people ) did not respond to Forbes by publishing time.
More than a year after it authorized its share repurchase, Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A)( BRK.B) has bought back its own shares.
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Warren Buffett discussed corporate cash in his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK) shareholders, a group that I am part of.
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On quick examination, it would not necessarily be clear that Warren Buffett or Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) benefited from the recession.
There have always been the question of whether Buffett has put in place an adequate succession plan at Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A).
He favors three stocks he believes will be super winners in the railroad industry: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Union Pacific (UNP), and Wabtech, (WAB).
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His General Re- insurance acquisition closes by year-end, and it moves the locus of BRK from an investment house to a worldwide insurance empire.
Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK - news - people ) could be handing out a dividend in the next 12 to 18 months.
The general portfolio includes Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.B), which pays no dividend, while the tax-managed portfolio substitutes dividend-yielding oil field services provider Schlumberger ( SLB) for Berkshire.
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Buffett, for example, recently told CNBC that his biggest investing mistake was buying Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK), which, when he purchased it, was a capital-bleeding textile company.
Among the largest underlying components of XLF, in trading today Wells Fargo ( WFC) is off about 3.1%, and Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.B) is lower by about 2.1%.
In Buffett-land, the big headline this past week was the revelation that Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.B) established a new position in the stock of John Deere ( DE).
At the same time he bought banks that seem risky, he sold out positions that look relatively safe: Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A)(BRK.B), Wells Fargo ( WFC) and Cresud (CRESY).
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The Oracle of Omaha, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, has been a major long-term major investor in American Express through Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), which he heads and controls.
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The economy is weakening and financial stocks are getting pounded, including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Travelers, American Express and Bank of America, companies that BRK has a vested interest in.
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No less than Warren Buffett has recognized it as an attractive stock, having invested in the stock through Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), of which he is chairman and CEO.
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The chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRK.A - news - people ) said it improved his view of the megabank's stock, which he does not now own.
With names like Acme Brick, Johns Manville, and Shaw listed under the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) umbrella, Buffett has long had direct exposure to the health of the U.S. housing industry.
He insisted that these board conversations are part of an ongoing process of preliminary planning for any changes at the top of Berkshire (nyse: BRK.a - news - people ).
Despite some public pressure for the first BRK cash dividend, Buffett is reluctant as he and other large longtime shareholders have no interest in either the income or the taxes that would be due.
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But holed up in the Omaha offices of Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A), reading up on publicly-traded companies, Buffett likely already knows a good deal about most of the companies that are being mentioned as potential targets.
Buffett set a specific price-to-book-value target for the buybacks, saying Berkshire ( NYSE: BRK-B) would buy back its own shares but only at prices up to a 10% premium over the then-current book value of Berkshire shares.
Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A)( BRK.B) on Jan. 9 increased its holding in the company by 1.3%, the latest of a string of 12 DaVita share purchases it made since October, according to GuruFocus Real Time Picks.
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Among the largest underlying components of XLG, in trading today Berkshire Hathaway ( NYSE: BRK.B) is down about 0.8%, Schlumberger ( NYSE: SLB) is down about 1.9%, and Abbott Labs ( NYSE: ABT) is lower by about 0.6%.
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