Warren Buffett

Billionaire Warren Buffett likes to compare his company to a masterpiece that he's been painting for nearly five decades, and the deal he announced Tuesday will permanently alter the color of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s portrait. The 79-year-old investor plans to add a brilliant orange section to the painting for the brightly colored locomotives of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. that Berkshire will acquire in a $34 billion cash and stock deal. It will be the biggest deal yet in a career of big deals. Buffett described it as an "all-in wager on the economic future of the United States," but it's also transformative for ... Read Full Story

Warren Buffett puts $ 26 billion for future U.S. is a post from: Forex News BNSF is the first position on the transport of several categories of goods in the United States. Investment firm BerkshireHathaway, owned by American billionaire Warren Buffett, acquired in his own company BurlingtonNorthernSantaFe (BNSF), the second-largest railroad conglomerate in the United States. Occupying the whole second place in the United States by volume of rail transport, BNSF maintains the country’s championship in the transportation of such products as coal and grain. In addition, the company transports goods from the ports of the American West, including refrigerators, clothes, televisions. Today, Berkshire ... Read Full Story

Warren Buffett’s investment company Berkshire Hathaway is set to take control of Burlington North Santa Fe (BNSF) in a deal worth $26 billion. The billionaire’s firm already had a minority stake in BNSF and the move will give Berkshire Hathaway control of the 77.4 per cent of shares it did not own. Of what is believed to be the biggest deal of his entire career, Mr Buffett said: “It’s an all-in wager on the economic future of the United States. “I love these bets.” BNSF is the biggest American transporter of goods such as corn and coal, while it also ships consumer products such ... Read Full Story

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will buy the shares it doesn’t already own of railway company Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. for $44 billion, the biggest acquisition in Berkshire Hathaway’s history. Read Full Story

Warren Buffett was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska and has become probably the world’s most successful investor. He is the son of a stockbroker and Congressman, and of course everyone wants to learn about his investment secrets. I don’t think that Warren Buffett has actually written a book about his investment principals himself, in that sense there is no Warren Buffett book , but he has from time to time given hints in his annual letters to share holders of Berkshire Hathaway, and in other short notes and reports to the media. However there have been a lot of books written about Warren ... Read Full Story