Tag: Berkshire Hathaway

July 19, 2022

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway now owns nearly $11 billion worth of Occidental Petroleum stock after buying another 1.9 million shares in the past week. The latest purchases of nearly $117 million in stock that Berkshire reported to the Securities and […]

August 31, 2020

On Monday, Berkshire Hathaway, the giant holding company chaired by Warren Buffett, announced it had acquired a roughly 5% stake totaling approximately $6 billion in five of Japan’s largest trading houses. The purchase is the latest of Buffett’s bids to […]

July 8, 2020

Warren Buffett just announced his annual charitable donations to the five philanthropies he’s chosen to give the vast bulk of his fortune to. This year, the “Oracle of Omaha” is distributing 15.9 million class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway valued […]

May 14, 2019

The legendary investor Warren Buffett may have a gift for recognizing risks and anticipating disasters, but he was off the money when he predicted there wouldn’t be a trade war between the US and China. “I don’t think either country […]

May 3, 2019

Warren Buffett on Thursday evening revealed to CNBC that his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate has taken a stake in Amazon. The legendary investor will hope lightning strikes twice: he made a massive $246 million — an 84% return in five years […]

January 17, 2019

Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is known for many things – his fast-food-heavy diet, his philanthropy, his business acumen as one of the wealthiest people in the world, and his investing style. Buffett has long been […]

August 2, 2018

Wednesday wasn’t just a good day for Apple. The company, whose shares jumped nearly 6%, also earned Warren Buffett a nice payday. The billionaire philanthropist’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) reportedly owns 239.6 million shares of Apple as of the end of […]

December 14, 2016

While the rest of the market awaits a big milestone, Warren Buffett just passed one of his own. A-class shares of the Nebraska billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway briefly passed $250,000 in morning trade Tuesday, a landmark eclipsed 54 years and a […]

August 8, 2016

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)  profit surged 25% in the three months through June as billionaire CEO Warren Buffett booked income from his purchases of aerospace equipment-maker Precision Castparts and battery manufacturer Duracell. The acquisitions, for a total of nearly $37 billion, helped […]