Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp (NYSE: BNI) surged close to 30% to a yearly high of $97.59 following news that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) will be buying the freight rail…
Warren Buffett is dumping Moody’s Corp. (NYSE: MCO). We’ll never know until it is already done whether the Oracle of Omaha wants to jettison it entirely from the holdings of Berkshire Hathaway…
We always knew that Warren Buffett loved the railroad stocks. We also had for years heard Buffett talk about the prospects of a “whale of a deal” in large acquisitions. And now…
We noted just last week that Bill Gates was getting more entrenched in the waste disposal sector. It turns out that Mr. Gates is getting deeper into the auto-retailing sector as well. …
Earnings season is seeming to wind down here, but that won’t stop the unusual suspects of key equity events and issues to watch this coming week. We are looking into key issues…
Earnings season may be winding down, but next week still has some very important companies that are economic indicators in and of themselves or are key stocks that have broad customer and…
If you thought that Bill Gates might have an ambition beyond just passive investing in the garbage and waste disposal sector, you might be correct. Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment, L.L.C. and the…
Bloomberg does a poll of its terminal subscribers from time to time. The most recent was done among 1,452 people from October 23 to October 27. The question and answer that will probably…
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.21 AM EST: The pricing of the Ancestry.com IPO may be much too high. (BreakingViews). Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new social search feature may not include industry leader Facebook …
Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) was out yesterday talking up “enormous progress” that has been made since a year ago. His comments came from an interview and an opening…
This morning’s banking reports from Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) and US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) might as well be called the Warren Buffett banking reports, or the banking earnings for Berkshire…
After the close on Monday came a little-known IPO filing from a life insurance operation called Symetra Financial Corp. It turns out that the Bellevue, Washington-based insurer has no terms for the…
A123 Systems Inc (NASDAQ: AONE) is still likely going to be one of the highlights of trading activity for the week, but the valuation is all based on the future rather than…
Mid-American Energy, a holding of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and a holding of Warren Buffett, is about to get into the U.K. offshore wind power business if the reportsfrom the weekend…
CNBC’s Becky Quick interviewed Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) at a very unusual venue this morning…. Fortune’s Most Powerful Womenconference. The mainstay part of the discussion was the ‘one-year…
