warren buffett

Warren Buffett, the world's greatest investor, recently released his 2010 letter to shareholders. Here are 5 points of wisdom that investors can learn from it.

The media has spun Warren Buffett's buy of Burlington Northern as positive. I consider the controversial possible macro-economic bets Buffett is really making.

From Tom Petruno's Money & Company blog in the LA Times:

No big bank wants to be the last one in the TARP pit.

On the same day that Bank of America Corp. was reported to be working on a plan to repay part of its federal capital injection under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Wells Fargo & Co. CEO John Stumpf was on TV promising that Wells would be returning its TARP money "shortly."

In October of last year we looked at a column in the NY Times by the Oracle of Omaha himself, Warren Buffett. Months ago in 2008 Warren Buffett was a buyer of American companies such as Goldman Sachs, General Electric, and Conoco Phillips. However, more recently he has begun distancing himself from American companies in the near term.

I recently managed to get a hold of the letters of the original Buffett Partnership. In those letters Warren Buffett describes the investment strategies employed by the partnership, the structure of the partnership as well as the fees that the limited investors paid for performance.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Legendary investor Warren Buffett said in an interview aired Thursday that unemployment could hit 11% and a second stimulus package might be needed as the economy struggles to recover from recession.

John Tantillo writes that Hulu's huge (and rapid) success points to an essential asepct of successful marketing on the web: a relevant enivronment. He also echoes Warren Buffett in saying that newspapers are failing precisely because they are no longer relevant to their would-be readers.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) published a glimpse of its stock portfolio holdings as of December 31,2008, on the SEC website. I have highlighted the largest changes in shares owned.

Shares of Harley Davidson, which is a dividend achiever, got a big boost yesterday, after legendary investor Warren Buffett snapped half of the company’s $600 million in bonds that will be issued. The bonds will mature in 2014 and carry an annual interest rate of 15%.

The U.S. is facing an “economic Pearl Harbor” that has spread fear throughout the country, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told Tom Brokaw in an interview broadcast yesterday on Dateline NBC.

Many investors attempt to seek out stock investments in the same way as Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett has often cited the screens he uses in uncovering companies that meet his investment criteria. Standard & Poor's created a list of companies that currently meet Mr. Buffett's screening criteria.

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Buffett has called the current mess an “economic Pearl Harbor.” He has also said, “In my adult lifetime, I don’t think I’ve ever seen people as fearful economically as they are now.”

CEG and ROH continue to trade at steep discounts to their acquisition prices.

The SEC just released an updated list of Berkshire Hathaway’s stock holdings as of 09/30/2008. The Oracle of Omaha, who is the main capital allocator for Berkshire added to the following positions:

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