Wells Fargo, another bank in which Berkshire has a significant stake, was up 2.2%.
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When China's state-owned Agricultural Bank was recently listed, no big Western bank bought a significant stake.
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They could have, for example, held on to what became CNBC, or at least a significant stake.
Cornerstone investors generally commit to holding a significant stake for a set period, demonstrating their confidence in the shares.
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Yahoo has a significant stake in Asia, particularly in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.
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Everyone owns a significant stake in the holding company and their own agency.
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Cornerstone investors commit to holding a significant stake for a certain length of time, demonstrating their confidence in the shares.
While the firm's stake in Zynga has fallen dramatically with the social gaming company's falling stock price, Kleiner Perkins still holds a significant stake in Twitter.
The moves represent an about-face for Fidelity, one of the first institutional investors to take a significant stake in Facebook and the country's third-largest mutual-fund company by assets.
There is news that Freeport is expected to participate in the contest for Lundin, as both the companies jointly own a significant stake in a copper mine in southern Congo.
In a letter to the special committee released by Dell, Icahn said he has built a significant stake in the PC-maker, and that the buyout by Dell and Silver Lake Partners undervalues the business.
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Wagoner said Wednesday that Nissan and Renault offered only to pay market price for a significant minority stake in the U.S. automaker.
Jimmy Haslam's brother, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, has no role in running the company but has a significant financial stake in the business.
Like Buffett and Munger, the duo prefer businesses with understandable models and place an overriding emphasis on company management, hoping to find those with a significant ownership stake.
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"The venture with EA appears to give Wright a much more significant economic stake in his future game designs, as as well as more creative control, " Cowen and Company analysts Doug Creutz and Adam Nolly wrote in a note to investors on Wednesday.
Less vulnerable to prosecutors are companies that boast a significant government equity stake or that were built from scratch.
Vornado Realty Trust sold a significant portion of its stake in the retailer.
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Buffett made a significant cut in his stake in Ameriprise Financial by 52.7% to 661, 742 shares from 1.4 million shares.
Buffett made a significant cut in his stake in Ameriprise Financial (nyse: AMP - news - people ) by 52.7% to 661, 742 shares from 1.4 million shares.
After a many-year relationship with significant assets the taxes at stake can be enormous .
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While the size of the equity stake has not been announced, I expect it will be significant given that two board seats come along with the stake.
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Yet the adult human investors had the clearest idea of the investment window and the most significant incentive: Their reputations were at stake.
The most significant acquisition was buying out Vodafone's stake in French telecom group SFR for 7.75bn euros in June.
Chairman and CEO Michael Sweeney said in a statement that part of the company's decision to sell its stake in the building came from the significant investment needed to maintain the building's infrastructure and appearance.
But the deal, in which DBS would buy a controlling stake from Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings, faces significant regulatory hurdles.
Paul Farmer, from mental health charity Mind, said that despite the significant impact of paracetamol packaging, there was a bigger issue at stake.
The company had offered the unions a 25% stake in the reorganized Hostess if they would agree to significant wage and pension concessions but the Bakers Union members overwhelmingly rejected the proposal.
The issue at stake here is how both regulators deals with market dominance, a significant issue in the high-tech industry.
Many investors like firms to make significant investments in their own real-estate funds so that managers have a financial stake.
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