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Warren Buffett donates again to the Gates Foundation but will cut the charity off after his death
Investor Warren Buffett has announced another $5.3 billion in charitable gifts Friday. But in a major shift of his longtime giving plan, he says he plans to cut off donations to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation after his death and let his three children decide how to distribute the rest of his $1
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals new $7 billion stake in Swiss insurer Chubb
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Marc Benioff lunch auction raises $1.5M for charity. Not bad for first year without Warren Buffett
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Stock market today: Asian shares mostly higher, though China benchmarks falter
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Berkshire Hathaway event gives good view of Warren Buffett’s successor but also raises new questions
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How major US stock indexes fared Monday, 5/6/2024
U.S. stocks closed higher on Wall Street, adding to last week’s gains. The S&P 500 climbed 1% Monday.
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Warren Buffett’s company rejects proposals, but it faces lawsuit over how it handled one last year
Shareholder proposals are usually uneventful at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, but Warren Buffett and the company are now facing a lawsuit over the way one presenter was treated last year.
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Berkshire’s profit plunges 64% on portfolio holdings as Buffett sells Apple
Berkshire Hathaway says its first quarter profit plummeted on the paper value of its investments. At the same time, the company said Saturday that most of the businesses it owns outright did well.
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Warren Buffett says AI may be better for scammers than society. And he’s seen how
Warren Buffett has come face to face with the downside of AI. And it looks just like him. The billionaire investing guru told tens of thousands of shareholders at his annual conference in Omaha that he recently saw an AI video of himself, complete with a perfect voiceover, giving fake advice.
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Berkshire Hathaway board feels sure Greg Abel is the man to eventually replace Warren Buffett
Everyone knows Warren Buffett’s successor won’t be able to match the legendary investor. But Berkshire Hathaway’s board remains confident Greg Abel is the right guy to one day lead the conglomerate into the future.
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Berkshire Hathaway’s real estate firm to pay $250 million to settle real estate commission lawsuits
A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide.
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BNSF becomes 2nd major railroad to sign on to anonymous federal safety hotline for some workers
BNSF will become the second major freight railroad to allow some of its employees to report safety concerns anonymously through a federal system without fear of discipline.
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Jury: BNSF Railway contributed to 2 deaths in Montana town where asbestos sickened thousands
A federal jury says BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana town where thousands have been sickened.
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Warren Buffett has left the table. Homeless charity asks investors to bid on meal with software CEO
The California homeless charity that received $53 million over the years from investors who wanted a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett has found a new business executive to auction off a meal with.
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Asbestos victims in Montana want Buffett’s railroad company held responsible
An attorney for two people who died of a rare lung cancer is urging a jury to hold BNSF Railway responsible for pollution in a small Montana town near the U.S.
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Victims of Montana asbestos pollution that killed hundreds take Warren Buffett’s railroad to court
It’s been almost 25 years since federal authorities, responding to news reports of deaths and illnesses, descended on the small northwestern Montana town of Libby to clean it up.
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US government may sue PacifiCorp, a Warren Buffett utility, for nearly $1B in wildfire costs
The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to recover nearly $1 billion of costs related to the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon and northern California.
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Stock market today: Wall Street edges back from its record heights
Asian shares have retreated after U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights. Most regional markets fell, while Shanghai advanced.
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A collection of the insights Warren Buffett offered in his annual letter Saturday
Billionaire Warren Buffett is known as one of the world’s greatest investors, and the 93-year-old has a devout following of people who admire his track record and appreciate his sage advice on life and investing.
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Warren Buffett uses his annual letter to warn about Wall Street and recount Berkshire’s successes
Warren Buffett credited his longtime partner — the late Charlie Munger — with being the architect of the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate he’s received the credit for leading and warned shareholders in his annual letter not to listen to Wall Street pundits or financial advisers who urge them to trade
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‘Squishmallows’ toy maker and Build-A-Bear are in a plush war over ‘copycat’ accusations
It turns out there are actually a lot of sharp elbows in the plush toy business. Build-A-Bear and Squishmallows maker Kelly Toys are now facing off in federal court.
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Clock ticking for Haslam family to sell stake in Pilot truck stops to Berkshire Hathaway this year
The clock is ticking for Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and his family to decide whether to sell their remaining stake in the Pilot truck stop chain to fellow billionaire Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway company.
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Warren Buffett, James Simons and Phil Knight are among the top charity donors of 2023
Investment guru Warren Buffett topped The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of the biggest charitable donations in 2023, with his $541.5 million gift to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named for his first wife, who died in 2004.
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Berkshire can’t use bribery allegations against Haslam in Pilot truck stop chain accounting dispute
A Delaware judge says Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will not be allowed to use allegations that billionaire Jimmy Haslam tried to bribe employees at the Pilot truck stop chain as Berkshire defends itself in a trial over Pilot’s accounting practices.
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Warren Buffett’s company’s bribery allegations against the Haslam family won’t be decided in January
Warren Buffett’s company decided not to move forward with an expedited trial on its bribery allegations against the billionaire Haslam family in January under the strict conditions a judge set.
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Billionaire family denies allegation from Warren Buffett’s company that it bribed truck stop chain execs
An attorney for the billionaire Haslam family has called the bribery allegations from Warren Buffett’s company a “wild invention.”
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Warren Buffett’s company says a billionaire family offered bribes to inflate earnings at a truck stop chain
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway says the billionaire Haslam family tried to bribe at least 15 executives at the Pilot truck stop chain with millions of dollars to get them to inflate the company’s profits this year because that would force Berkshire to pay more for the Haslams’ remaining 20% sta
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Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build investment powerhouse Berkshire Hathaway, dies at 99
Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway into an investment powerhouse, has died. He was 99.
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Warren Buffet donates Berkshire Hathaway shares to children’s foundations at Thanksgiving
Warren Buffett gifted 2,400,000 shares of Class B Berkshire Hathaway stock to charitable foundations run by his children on Tuesday.
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Buffett’s firm sells off several smaller investments, including GM and UPS
Warren Buffett’s company unloaded a number of the smaller investments in its portfolio in the third quarter including GM, Mondelez, Johnson & Johnson, UPS and Procter & Gamble.
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Haslams say Warren Buffett’s Berkshire wants to take money out of their pockets in truck stop deal
The billionaire Haslam family says in a lawsuit that Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are trying to artificially depress the price the company is obligated to pay for the family’s remaining 20% stake in the Pilot Travel Centers truck stop company after paying nearly $11 billion since 2017 for t
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Warren Buffett’s company joins oil-buying frenzy this week by resuming its Occidental Petroleum buys
Investor Warren Buffett joined the recent oil-buying spree in the market this week by resuming Berkshire Hathaway’s purchases of Occidental Petroleum stock for the first time in four months.
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway keeps selling off its HP shares at a loss this week
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway continued selling off more of its HP Inc. shares this week at a loss and dropped its stake below 10% of the maker of printers and computers.
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Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger gives $40 million in stock to California museum
Investor Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s right-hand man for more than five decades, has made a $40 million gift to a California museum he has supported in the past.
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Warren Buffett’s company dumps another 5 million shares of printer maker HP
Investors soon won’t be able to follow Warren Buffett’s every move in HP stock if the billionaire’s company keeps selling off shares of the printer and computer maker.
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