Buffett News
Who Will Be Your Next Leader?
When Sally Smith became the chief executive officer of Buffalo Wild Wings in 1996, it wasn't exactly a planned event. According to Smith's account published in the New York Times (as part of Adam ...
Buffett Warning Unheeded as Cat Bonds Surge
Bond buyers are betting more than ever on the mercy of Mother Nature as they seek to boost yields being suppressed by central banks. Demand for notes linked to insurance against hurricanes and other ...
Buffett May Up Berkshire’s Bets on Solar, Wind Power to $30B
Warren Buffett briefly lost track of how many billions of dollars his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is spending to build wind and solar power in the U.S. That didn't stop him from vowing to double the ...
Pay Disclosure Harms Shareholders, Fuels Jealousy Between Execs, Buffett Says at Annual Confab
Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said shareholders are harmed by rules that force companies to disclose the pay of top managers. ...
Berkshire Posts 11th Straight Year of Underwriting Profit; Buffett Expects Billions from Specialty Ops
Insurance operations contributed $5.7 billion to total operating income of $15.1 billion for Berkshire Hathaway in 2013—with an underwriting profit of $2.0 billion (after taxes) representing the ...
Highlights from Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter
Investors eagerly await Warren Buffett's letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders each year for its plain-spoken insight into the billionaire's financial strategy and economic predictions. ...
Buffett Seeks More Elephants
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Saturday signaled he plans to make more large acquisitions to expand a conglomerate that posted a record profit in 2013, helped by a recovering U.S. ...
FSOC Scrutinizing Buffett’s Berkshire for Systemic Risk Potential
Regulators are starting to scrutinize Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to determine whether it is important enough to the financial system to require Federal Reserve supervision, according to ...