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After Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Stiffed A Waitress, Warren Buffett Sent A Check To Make Up For It

After Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Stiffed A Waitress, Warren Buffett Sent A Check To Make Up For It

Waitresses have a hard job, made even harder when events beyond their control cut into their tip money. One Omaha restaurant waitress learned that lesson all too well recently when Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders withheld her tip. However, according to the Omaha-World-Herald, Berkshire headquarters caught wind of the act, and they sent the waitress a check […]

5y ago

Warren Buffett Bids $9 Billion On Texas Energy Giant Oncor

Warren Buffett Bids $9 Billion On Texas Energy Giant Oncor

Warren Buffett bids $9 billion to acquire Energy Future Holdings Corp., the parent company of Texas energy giant Oncor. Berkshire Hathaway’s energy subsidiary, Berkshire Hathaway Energy is slated to take control of the financially faltering company pending the approval of the Public Utility Commission of Texas. Energy Future Holdings Corp. owns 80% of Oncor that […]

6y ago

Barack Obama Grabs Lunch With Billionaire Warren Buffett At Omaha Country Club

Barack Obama Grabs Lunch With Billionaire Warren Buffett At Omaha Country Club

Former president Barack Obama made a quick stop in Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday afternoon to grab lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The two were joined by Buffett’s daughter Susie Buffett for lunch in a private room at the Happy Hollow country club, where Warren Buffett is a member. The lunch lasted […]

7y ago

Elizabeth Warren On Trump Inheritance: $2.3 Billion In Index Fund, $198 Billion With Warren Buffett

Elizabeth Warren On Trump Inheritance: $2.3 Billion In Index Fund, $198 Billion With Warren Buffett

Senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren took to Twitter yesterday to express her frustration with Republican Party U.S. presidential nomination front-runner Donald Trump’s braggadocio with regard to his business acumen and investing prowess. Research shows that Trump’s personal net worth might have been similarly served by an index fund, as compared with his real […]

8y ago

Wall Street On The Rise After Multi-Billion Dollar Acquisition And A Supposition

Wall Street On The Rise After Multi-Billion Dollar Acquisition And A Supposition

Wall Street has seen a week-long losing streak this past week (not record breaking, to be sure, but not good or welcomed) that was largely remedied based on an acquisition and a supposition. This year has been a banner year for M&A overall, and Berkshire Hathaway continued the trend with their biggest acquisition yet. Backed […]

8y ago

According To Warren Buffett, Stocks Are Going To Be ‘A Lot Higher’

According To Warren Buffett, Stocks Are Going To Be ‘A Lot Higher’

A volatile market is no hindrance to investor Warren Buffett, who said Monday that he expected stock prices to be “a lot higher” in the future. Buffett made that assessment while on CNBC, speaking with anchor Becky Quick. As Business Insider notes, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO was queried about his feelings regarding the major price […]

8y ago

Warren Buffett No Longer World’s Second Richest Person

Warren Buffett No Longer World’s Second Richest Person

Investor Warren Buffett has fallen from his spot as the second richest man in the world and now ranks in third place, behind Amancio Ortega. Ortega is the Spanish fast-fashion baron behind Zara’s, according to Quartz, and he has amassed a net worth of $71.5 billion. This places him second on the list of the […]

9y ago

Warren Buffett’s Neighbors Selling House, Asking 10 Berkshire Hathaway Shares

Warren Buffett’s Neighbors Selling House, Asking 10 Berkshire Hathaway Shares

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is famous for his frugality, living in the same Omaha home he purchased in 1958 for $31,500, yet his neighbors across the street have a slightly higher, and slightly tongue-in-cheek, asking price in mind for their five-bedroom house. Homeowner Phil Huston says that though the property has been recently valued at […]

9y ago

Warren Buffett Is A ‘Hypocrite’ If You Are To Believe Hedge Fund Manager Dan Loeb

Warren Buffett Is A ‘Hypocrite’ If You Are To Believe Hedge Fund Manager Dan Loeb

Warren Buffett is widely considered to be one of if not the most successful investors Wall Street has ever seen. He is currently the third richest person in the world. His net worth is just shy of $73 billion, according to a recent article by Forbes. Despite his successes in the market, Buffett still has […]

9y ago

Warren Buffett Sings Ukulele Ode To Coca-Cola [Video]

Warren Buffett Sings Ukulele Ode To Coca-Cola [Video]

Billionaire Warren Buffett is turning to his ukulele to pay tribute to a century of Coca-Cola’s iconic bottle, singing his own ode to the company he has long championed. In a video released at Coca-Cola’s shareholder meeting on Wednesday, Buffett appears with his ukulele to belt out his own version of “I’d Like To Buy […]

9y ago

Warren Buffett Claims Elizabeth Warren Is Too Angry [Video]

Warren Buffett Claims Elizabeth Warren Is Too Angry [Video]

Billionaire Warren Buffett probably won’t be making any contributions to Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, if there is one that is. In an interview on CNBC yesterday, Buffett chided the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for coming across as angry in expressing her views about Wall Street. At the same time, the world’s third richest man admitted […]

9y ago

Warren Buffett Declares His Successor Found After Reaching 50 Year Milestone

Warren Buffett Declares His Successor Found After Reaching 50 Year Milestone

Billionaire Warren Buffett announced to shareholders on Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway had found the right person to succeed him as CEO, while the company’s vice chairman identified several possible candidates. Both the 84-year-old Buffett and Charlie Munger, the 91-year-old vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, released letters to shareholders on Saturday, according to Reuters. Though Buffett […]

9y ago

Warren Buffett Dumps ExxonMobil, Buys 4.7 Million Shares Of 21st Century Fox

Warren Buffett Dumps ExxonMobil, Buys 4.7 Million Shares Of 21st Century Fox

Warren Buffett, the most successful investor of the 20th century and American business billionaire, philanthropist, and magnate dumped all of his holdings of ExxonMobil owned by his investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway. On Tuesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reported Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway’s quarterly filing detailed the conglomerate’s domestic equity investments as of Dec. […]

9y ago

Fallout From Burger King/Tim Hortons Merger, Tim Hortons Cuts 350 Head Office Jobs

Fallout From Burger King/Tim Hortons Merger, Tim Hortons Cuts 350 Head Office Jobs

With the merger between Burger King and Tim Hortons complete, the fallout now begins. Bloomberg Business is reporting that Tim Hortons is cutting about 15 percent, or 350 positions, from the home office and other non-store positions in an effort to streamline the business as it prepares to begin a global push. Alexandra Cygal, a […]

9y ago

Warren Buffett Loses $1.5 Billion In A Day, Then Gets Hit Again

Warren Buffett Loses $1.5 Billion In A Day, Then Gets Hit Again

When Warren Buffett loses $1.5 billion in a market drop, it makes big headlines – and now he’s had two big drops in one week. Buffett has always stood behind both IBM and Coca-Cola, as they make up two of his top three largest investments. This week, however, both companies took a hit on the […]

9y ago

Burger King Gets More Than Tax Break, May Start An Exodus

Burger King Gets More Than Tax Break, May Start An Exodus

Much has been made about the merger of Burger King and Tim Horton’s being solely a tax inversion strategy. It may turn out to be much, much more than that. NASDAQ is reporting that with the acquisition of Tim Horton’s, Burger King now gets a chance to look into international expansion. Before the merger, Burger […]

9y ago

Warren Buffett Gives His Kids $600M Worth of Stock On His Birthday

Warren Buffett Gives His Kids $600M Worth of Stock On His Birthday

OMAHA, NEBRASKA- Warren Buffet is celebrating his birthday, not by recieving his own presents, but by giving his own children $600 million worth of his company’s stock. Buffet’s generous gifts to his three children will be used for their charitable foundations. NBC News reports, Buffet announced the gifts in a letter, that was made public […]

11y ago

Warren Buffett Fires CEO For Taking Vacation With Company Money

Warren Buffett Fires CEO For Taking Vacation With Company Money

The CEO of a paint company owned by billionaire Warren Buffett decided to take his top executives on a getaway when the company posted its first quarterly profit in years. Buffett was having no part of it. The owner of Berkshire Hathaway fired the CEO of Montvale, N.J., based Benjamin Moore paint company after the […]

12y ago

Warren Buffett Answers Federal Deficit Pay Down Challenge, Writes A Check For $49,000

Warren Buffett Answers Federal Deficit Pay Down Challenge, Writes A Check For $49,000

Last week Kim LaCapria at Inquisitr wrote about a challenge Warren Buffett made to opponents of higher taxes for the rich. He told those Republican lawmakers that he would match any donation they voluntarily made to help pay down the national debt. Today Buffett has followed through on his promise by writing a check for […]

12y ago

Warren Buffett Backs Up Economy and Bank of America As Berkshire Plans First Ever Share Buyback

Warren Buffett Backs Up Economy and Bank of America As Berkshire Plans First Ever Share Buyback

Warren Buffett on Friday said Berkshire Hathaway will continue to invest in the economy even as the company prepares their first ever share buyback program. Speaking during a CNBC interview Buffett said Berkshire will continue to make acquisitions and spend on infrastructure for their portfolio of companies. The announcement to purchase back their own shares […]

12y ago

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