Warren Buffett

FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview in Omaha, Neb., May 7, 2018. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway revealed a $6.7 billion investment in fellow insurer Chubb on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals new $7 billion stake in Swiss insurer Chubb

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is disclosing a new $7 billion stake in fellow insurer Chubb. Berkshire revealed the investment it has been building over the past nine months in a quarterly update Wednesday on its stock portfolio.
 
FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview in Omaha, Neb., May 7, 2018. The $200,100 winning bid for a private lunch with software titan Marc Benioff might appear disappointing at first glance after years of multimillion-dollar bids for a private meal with Buffett, but the winner also pledged to donate a total of $1.5 million to the California homeless charity that benefits from the auction. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Marc Benioff lunch auction raises $1.5M for charity. Not bad for first year without Warren Buffett

 
A person walks in the rain near an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Stock market today: Asian shares mostly higher, though China benchmarks falter

 
Shareholder Tina Schmidt of Cozad, Neb., wears a shirt with Warren Buffett's portrait in the style of an Andy Warhol painting at he Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting on Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)

Berkshire Hathaway event gives good view of Warren Buffett’s successor but also raises new questions

 
Harold and Caroline Ernst of St. Louis chat with fellow shareholders as they wait for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting to begin on Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)

Warren Buffett’s company rejects proposals, but it faces lawsuit over how it handled one last year

 

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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.
 
Michelle King of San Francisco does yoga in the See's Candies booth before the arrival of shareholders for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting on Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)

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.
 
A person takes a photo of the Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Squishmallows before Saturday's Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., on Friday, May 3, 2024. are again one of the hottest item for sale this year at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)

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.
 
FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview with Liz Claman on Fox Business Network's "Countdown to the Closing Bell," May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb. Everyone knows Buffett's successor won't be able to match the legendary investor, but Berkshire Hathaway's board remains confident that Greg Abel is the right guy to one day lead the conglomerate into the future. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - A for sale sign is posted in front of a home in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 3, 2022. HomeServices of America, a real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide claiming that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold their homes. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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.
 
FILE - A BNSF locomotive heads south out of Oklahoma City, Sept. 14, 2022. 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, the Federal Railroad Administration announced Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

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.
 
A respiratory therapist left, conducts a pulmonary test on a woman at the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, April 4, 2024, in Libby, Mont. The clinic has diagnosed thousands of people with asbestos-related disease following contamination from a nearby mine for vermiculite. A federal jury on Monday, April 22, said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths in 2020 of two people who were exposed to asbestos in the Libby area decades ago. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

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.
 

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.
 
FILE - The town of Libby, Mont., is seen Feb. 17, 2010. Thousands of people have been sickened and hundreds killed by asbestos contamination in the Libby area. Most of the contamination has been cleaned up but the long latency period of asbestos-related diseases means people continue to get diagnosed with illnesses. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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.
 
Respiratory therapist Vernon Johnson, left, conducts a pulmonary test on Christine Ekstedt at the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Libby, Mont. The clinic has diagnosed thousands of people with asbestos-related disease following contamination from a nearby mine for vermiculite, a product that was shipped across the U.S. by rail for use as insulation and other purposes. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

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.
 
FILE - An old cash register sits among the charred remains of a home burned in the Slater Fire in Happy Camp, Calif., Oct. 6, 2021. The U.S. government has threatened to sue a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to recover nearly $1 billion of costs related to the wildfires in 2020 in southern Oregon and northern California. The potential lawsuits were disclosed in an annual report filed by PacifiCorp’s parent company, Berkshire Hathaway Energy on Monday, Feb 26, 2024. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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.
 
FILE - A trader looks over his cell phone outside the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, in the financial district of Manhattan in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

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.
 
FILE - Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, during a tour of the CHI Health convention center where various Berkshire Hathaway companies display their products, before presiding over the annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, May 4, 2019. 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. Buffett’s latest annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders released Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024 was filled with a mix of both.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE- In this May 3, 2019 file photo, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, left, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, briefly chat with reporters before Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting. 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 advisors who urge them to trade often. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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
 
FILE - The Squishmallows booth sells toys modeled after Warren Buffett, pictured, and Charlie Munger in the exhibit hall for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Saturday, May 6, 2023, in Omaha, Neb. In a lawsuit filed Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, Kelly Toys and parent company Jazwares accused Build-A-Bear's new “Skoosherz” line of copying Squishmallows' look and feel. Skoosherz toys have the “same distinctive trade dress” of Squishmallows, the complaint said — pointing to shape, face style, coloring and fabric similarities. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz, File)

‘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.
 
FILE - Trucks and cars drive by a Pilot Travel Center sign displaying fuel prices, June 20, 2022, in Bath, N.Y. 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. A trial had been scheduled to start Monday, Jan. 8, 2023, in Delaware in a dispute over accounting practices at Pilot Travel Centers. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

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.
 
FILE - Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, during a tour of the CHI Health convention center where various Berkshire Hathaway companies display their products, before presiding over the annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, May 4, 2019. 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. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - Trucks and cars drive by a Pilot Travel Center sign displaying fuel prices, June 20, 2022, in Bath, N.Y. 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 to inflate the company’s value as Berkshire defends itself in a dispute over the company’s accounting practices, a Delaware judge said Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

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.
 
FILE - In this May 7, 2018, file photo, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview in Omaha, Neb. 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 inflate the company’s profits this year because that would force Berkshire to pay more for the Haslams’ remaining 20% stake in the company. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - In this April 19, 2013, file photo, Jimmy Haslam, CEO of Pilot Flying J and owner of the Cleveland Browns, speaks during a news conference at the company headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn. 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 inflate the company’s profits this year because that would force Berkshire to pay more for the Haslams’ remaining 20% stake in the company. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

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.”
 
FILE - In this May 7, 2018, file photo, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview in Omaha, Neb. 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 inflate the company’s profits this year because that would force Berkshire to pay more for the Haslams’ remaining 20% stake in the company. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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
 
File - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, left, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, briefly chat with reporters May 3, 2019, one day before Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb. Berkshire Hathaway says Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build an investment powerhouse, has died. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - In this May 7, 2018 file photo, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview in Omaha, Neb. Buffett gifted 2,400,000 shares of Class B Berkshire Hathaway stock to charitable foundations run by his children on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett smiles during an interview, May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb. 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. Berkshire Hathaway filed a quarterly update on its $313 billion portfolio with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - In this May 7, 2018 file photo, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview in Omaha, Neb. 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 chain that Jim Haslam found. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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
 
FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett smiles during an interview, May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb. 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. Buffett's company said late Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023 that it invested more than $246 million to add to its already massive Occidental stake. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett smiles during an interview, May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb. Investors soon won't be able to follow Buffett's every move in HP Inc.'s stock if the billionaire's company keeps selling off shares of the printer and computer maker. That's because Berkshire Hathaway is about to drop below 10% ownership of HP after the latest sales of nearly 5 million shares that Buffett's company disclosed late Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger listens to a question during an interview, May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb., with Liz Claman on Fox Business Network's "Countdown to the Closing Bell." On Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, Munger, who's been Warren Buffett's right-hand man for more than five decades, made a $40 million gift to a California museum that he's supported in the past. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett smiles during an interview, May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb. Investors soon won't be able to follow Buffett's every move in HP Inc.'s stock if the billionaire's company keeps selling off shares of the printer and computer maker. That's because Berkshire Hathaway is about to drop below 10% ownership of HP after the latest sales of nearly 5 million shares that Buffett's company disclosed late Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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.
 
FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett smiles during an interview, May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb. Buffett's company sold off 5.5 million of its HP Inc. shares this week, trimming a stake that it established in 2022, but even after the sales, Berkshire Hathaway still owns nearly 12% of the printer and computer maker's stock. HP stock dropped nearly 2% to sell for $27.80 on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in the first trading session after the stock sales were disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Warren Buffett’s company trims its investment in printer maker HP by selling 5.5 million shares

Warren Buffett’s company sold off 5.5 million HP Inc. shares this week to trim a stake that it established just last year.
 
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