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...When pressed on the issue, asset managers in the US now emphasise that they are service providers....
...In 2005, Ogunlesi, then a top banker at Credit Suisse, was summoned to Omaha, Nebraska, by the energy arm of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to study a large takeover....
...Munger grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, a few hundred feet from where Buffett now lives. The two met in 1959, when Buffett was 28 and Munger 35....
...The 91-year-old investor signalled at the company’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, in April that the spree of multibillion-dollar stock purchases was likely to slow as the year progressed, saying that...
..., said this month as he deferred the conversion of two Nebraska coal-fired units to natural gas by three years....
...Berkshire has cut holdings in several bank stocks, selling the remaining shares it held in JPMorgan Chase, PNC Financial Services and M&T Bank in the fourth quarter....
...The gathering in Omaha, Nebraska, has been dubbed the Woodstock of Capitalism and draws more than 40,000 people who come to hear directly from Mr Buffett and Charlie Munger, Berkshire’s vice-chairman....
...The oil company had sent a delegation to Nebraska for a secret meeting with Warren Buffett, hoping to persuade Berkshire Hathaway’s chairman to come to their rescue in their battle for Anadarko....
...Apple isn’t trying to bring down the cost of housing in rural Nebraska. Though perhaps, in a roundabout way, the internet and its winners already have....
...Before then, the company’s stock bets were dominated by banks and other financial services and consumer goods groups such as Coca-Cola....
...The 13F also showed Omaha, Nebraska-based company grew its stake in Goldman Sachs by 21 per cent to 13.2m shares valued at $2.9bn....
...They will get discounts on goods from Berkshire’s companies, from Nebraska Furniture Mart to Borsheims Fine Jewelry. They will see old friends....
...Keystone XL would have a capacity of 830,000 b/d, but will have to overcome legal challenges in federal courts and in Nebraska....
...Darden said it arranged for affected customers to receive free identity protection services....
...To sell more $4.99 rotisserie chickens, the retailer Costco Wholesale is hiring 800 workers to dispatch 2m birds a week at a new complex west of Iowa in Nebraska, says Jessica Kolterman of Costco’s Lincoln...
...It makes great products that it can sell at high margins, and ancillary services such as iTunes and Apple pay tie people in to repeat purchases....
...“I do not worry about the so called deal flow, which is a term I hate,” he said during five hours of investor questioning at the meeting in Omaha, Nebraska....
...The video quickly went viral: a Nebraska farmer, clad in a life jacket and blue jeans, skimming across his uncle’s flooded field on a wakeboard....
...A cyclone more than 9,000 miles away from Omaha, Nebraska, where more than 30,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are gathered for an annual meeting they call the Woodstock of Capitalism, has put a slight...
...The Nebraska Peace Foundation‘s president, Loyal Park, has been involved with the organisation since its beginnings as an anti-Vietnam war movement in the state capital, Lincoln, while its activities have...
...The results so far leave “no doubt” that his chosen charity — Girls Inc, an after-school club for girls in Omaha, Nebraska — “will be eagerly opening the mail next January” in anticipation of a hefty cheque...
...Agrium will buy 18 farm retail locations across the US corn belt in states including Nebraska and South Dakota, that churn out annual revenues of over $150m, writes FT’s Emiko Terazono....
...Sweet defences aside, Mr Buffett was at pains to avoid political controversy, although his caution did little to dispel enthusiasm among the almost 40,000 shareholders who made the trek to Omaha, Nebraska...
...For the past couple of years, he has been telling the 40,000 or so shareholders who usually attend the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting that they should consider using the Airbnb room sharing service to...
...A proposal to that effect has been filed by the Nebraska Peace Foundation, which owns a single Berkshire share....
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