Berkshire Hathaway News
S&P Revises Berkshire Insurance Subs’ Outlook to Negative
While affirming the "AA+" financial strength and long-term counterparty credit ratings on Berkshire Hathaway operating insurance subsidiaries, S&P Global Ratings said Monday that it revised the ...
Warren Buffett: Now Bank of America’s Biggest Shareholder
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc has become Bank of America Corp's largest shareholder by exercising its right to acquire 700 million shares at a steep discount, more than tripling an ...
Berkshire Hathaway Builds Stake in Synchrony, but Exits Its Former Parent GE
Warren Buffett has long preached the importance of investing in businesses that are hard for competitors to copy. That may be part of why his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. built a $520 million stake in ...
Underwriting Losses Depress Berkshire Hathaway’s Q2 Profit
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is finding it hard to grind out higher profits this year, in large part because of slumping results at its insurance businesses. Gains at the conglomerate's ...
Berkshire Hathaway Reportedly in Talks to Buy Stake in Brazilian Reinsurer
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the firm run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, is in talks to buy a stake in Latin America's biggest reinsurer, IRB Brasil Resseguros SA, after an initial public ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s $9B Oncor Purchase Agreement Represents Big Bet on Power
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Friday it agreed to pay $9 billion to buy the parent of Texas power transmission company Oncor Electric Delivery Co, stepping up its pursuit of steady ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Will Become Bank of America’s Biggest Shareholder
Warren Buffett's company will become the biggest shareholder in Bank of America Corp, after Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday invoked its right to acquire 700 million shares of the second-largest U.S. ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Invests in Embattled Canadian Lender Home Capital
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is providing a lifeline to Home Capital Group Inc., the embattled Canadian alternative lender whose near collapse sparked intense scrutiny of the country's ...