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A conscience of capitalism prepares to step off the stage It was closing in on 1 p.m. when Warren Buffett, seated onstage before a rapt audience of about 40,000 at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, said that he was getting a “5-minute warning.” To most of those there for the annual meeting of Berkshire…
It was closing in on 1 p.m. here when Warren Buffett, seated onstage before a rapt audience of about 40,000 at the CHI Health Center, said that he was getting a “5-minute warning.” To most of those gathered here for the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, his company, it was simply a signal that the…
Warren Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, said he would step down from that position by the end of the year. Mr. Buffett, 94, transformed Berkshire Hathaway, once a textile company, into a powerful business investor, making billions along the way. Here’s a look back at some of the defining moments in his life….
Warren E. Buffett’s approach to investing is deceptively simple. “Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices; instead, buy wonderful businesses at fair prices,” he once wrote to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, his business conglomerate. This method — known as value investing — had existed long before Mr. Buffett, now 94, began…
Warren E. Buffett’s approach to investing is deceptively simple. “Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices; instead, buy wonderful businesses at fair prices,” he once wrote to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, his business conglomerate. This method — known as value investing — had existed long before Mr. Buffett, now 94, began…
Investors had speculated in recent years that Warren E. Buffett might eventually retire. But the 94-year-old billionaire still surprised many on Saturday, when he announced that he planned to step down as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway after nearly six decades. Less surprising is who he said he intended to succeed him as the leader…
Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by Warren E. Buffett, reported a sharp drop in first-quarter earnings on Saturday as the company felt the effects of a declining stock market and braced for potential hits from President Trump’s trade policies. The company reported $9.6 billion in operating income, Mr. Buffett’s preferred measure, down 14 percent from…
Bostonians like to brag about their celebrities with big personalities — David Ortiz, Mindy Kaling, Mark Wahlberg, to name a few. And then there’s Eliot Tatelman of Jordan’s Furniture. While not well known outside New England, Mr. Tatelman has been a fixture for years on local television, hawking mattresses and sofas in humorous, relatively low-budget…
A federal regulator sued a mortgage finance firm owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate on Monday, claiming it made loans to buyers of manufactured homes that it knew they could not afford. The civil suit, filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Tennessee by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Vanderbilt Mortgage…