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Buffett's Berkshire trims stake in China's BYD, a holding since 2008

Buffett's company had acquired 225 million BYD shares in 2008, giving it a 7.73% stake, equal to the 20.49% stake in H shares, according to BYD's annual report

Updated On: 30 Aug 2022 | 8:15 PM IST

Warren Buffett ends drought with $11.6 billion Alleghany purchase

Alleghany, the owner of reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings, would expand Berkshire's large portfolio of insurers

Updated On: 21 Mar 2022 | 11:10 PM IST

Warren Buffett's top stock last year was the bank he's been bailing on

Wells Fargo & Co. shares delivered a total return of 61% last year, outpacing every other company listed in the most recent public snapshot of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s portfolio, as of Sept. 30

Updated On: 11 Feb 2022 | 2:04 PM IST

Warren Buffett's cash pile tops record with $149.2 billion on hand

Buffett has struggled with a high-class problem of having too much money in Berkshire's pockets and not enough chances to put that to work in higher-returning assets.

Updated On: 07 Nov 2021 | 10:35 AM IST

Warren Buffett's Berkshire gets more cautious on stocks and buybacks

Buffett has struggled in recent years to keep up with Berkshire's ever-gushing cash flow

Updated On: 01 May 2021 | 7:42 PM IST

RIL to pare stake in Hathway Cable; to launch Rs 442-crore OFS on April 26

Sebi rules prescribe that promoters cannot hold more than 75 per cent in a company

Updated On: 24 Apr 2021 | 6:05 AM IST

Stock gains power higher Berkshire profit, Buffett presses on with buybacks

Berkshire's fourth-quarter buybacks boosted the company's overall stock repurchases to $24.7 billion in 2020, five times the record from a year earlier

Updated On: 28 Feb 2021 | 6:43 AM IST

Berkshire scoops up its own stock as pandemic hits business in Q3

Berkshire's recently been expanding its hunting horizons, with its $6 billion bet on Japanese trading houses and even a stake in the newly public Snowflake Inc.

Updated On: 09 Nov 2020 | 7:33 PM IST

Not a good sign: Warren Buffet does away with bank shares, bets on gold

Buffett, the fifth-richest person in the world, has loved few things more in his life than sweets, soda and compound interest - but banking stocks have come pretty close

Updated On: 15 Aug 2020 | 4:38 PM IST

Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Q2 profit up 87% despite near-$10 bn writedown

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Saturday that it earned $26.3 billion, or $16,314 per Class A share, during the second quarter

Updated On: 09 Aug 2020 | 11:10 PM IST

With a fortune of $68 bn, Mukesh Ambani now richer than Warren Buffet

Shares of Ambani's conglomerate have more than doubled since a low in March as its digital unit got more than $15 billion in investments from companies including Facebook and Silver Lake

Updated On: 11 Jul 2020 | 1:25 AM IST

Playing the markets

Most readers will have heard of Mr Buffett. Mr Portnoy is a 43-year-old, mainly famous for setting up the popular American blog, Barstool Sports

Updated On: 20 Jun 2020 | 1:26 AM IST

Here's why billionaire Warren Buffett will never invest in cryptocurrencies

Buffett's comments come a day after JPMorgan & Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said he regrets calling bitcoin a fraud

Updated On: 11 Jan 2018 | 8:11 AM IST

Insurance dampens Warren Buffett's Berkshire results; 27% drop in Q1 profit

The results were released one day before Berkshire's annual meeting in Omaha

Updated On: 06 May 2017 | 10:01 AM IST

Berkshire Hathaway's top 10 investments

Berkshire Hathaway substantially increased its holdings of Apple stock in the December quarter

Updated On: 25 Feb 2017 | 2:11 PM IST