Berkshire Hathaway

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  Warren Buffett: Chinese Pop Star?

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  January 5, 2012

  Buffett has recorded a music video, in which he sings and plays guitar, that will be played as part of the Chinese New Year celebration.

• A Warren Buffett ETF?

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  December 26, 2011

  We know that financial product developers have thought about introducing a “Warren Buffett ETF,” not because the investing public really needs it, but because there’s no shortage of dubious ideas. Interestingly, though, financial marketers might not have to invent a Buffett ETF because one already exists.

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  Outlook 2012: Value Investing — A Glimmer in the Gloom

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  December 19, 2011

  Like value investment gurus Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham, today's stock pickers believe that investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

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  Buffett Goes Solar

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  December 7, 2011

  Warren Buffett is going solar. The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is stepping in where the government fears to tread, so to speak, as Berkshire’s MidAmerica Energy Holdings unit agreed to buy the $2 billion Topaz project in California after a U.S. government loan guarantee for the project fell through.

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  Fitch Cuts U.S. Rating Outlook to Negative

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 29, 2011

  After the congressional supercommittee failed to find common ground for budget cuts, Fitch Ratings, the last agency to rate the U.S. outlook as stable, downgraded it on Monday to negative.

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  Buffett: Eurozone Faces 'Major Flaw'

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 21, 2011

  Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway, said Monday on his first trip to Japan that the debt crisis in Europe had revealed a 'major flaw' in the eurozone, and that words alone would be inadequate to repair it.

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  Buffett Makes Rare Investment in Tech Sector With IBM

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 16, 2011

  Although he normally shuns tech stocks, Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway, veered from his usual policy and sank close to $11 billion into shares of IBM, picking up a stake of almost 5.5% that makes him potentially its biggest shareholder

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  Buffett Won't Bail Out European Banks, Sees Partial Run

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 14, 2011

  Warren Buffett won't be bailing out European banks any time soon, nor does he foresee an early solution to the European debt crisis. In fact, according to the "Oracle of Omaha," Europe is in the midst of a partial run.

• From Wall Street to Fleet Street: Protests Set for London

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 13, 2011

  The Occupy Wall Street movement, whose growing presence in Lower Manhattan has steadily attracted more notice, is spreading to Fleet Street, where protestors plan a Saturday march to the London Stock Exchange.

• Warren Buffett’s Eldest Son, Howard, Defends Occupy Wall Street

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  October 13, 2011

  Howard Buffett, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday to present a speech at the World Food Prize conference, said, “I think it takes that to make things happen sometimes,” adding that over the last 15 years “we saw large corporations really screw people.”