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...excessive damages being awarded, that means that power companies are essentially underwriting what is a societal risk that is being driven by climate change,” said Pedro Pizarro, chief executive of Edison International...
...The Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett, sold off some of Berkshire Hathaway’s Chevron holdings in 2023 and some analysts have soured on the stock....
...Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile surged to a record $157bn in a quarter in which chief executive Warren Buffett continued to sell stakes in publicly traded companies, as the so-called Oracle of Omaha found...
....* Here’s a table from Domino Pizza, Inc’s latest DEF14A filing with the SEC, from March last year, capturing executive compensation during 2021: And here’s the bit that involves pizza: Perhaps the real...
...After a two-year break due to the pandemic, international bidding for lunch with Buffett, the chair and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, opened at $25,000 on June 12....
...The sale to Lee comprises 30 daily newspapers across the country and includes Mr Buffett’s hometown paper, the Omaha World Herald, as well as the Buffalo News, which serves upstate New York....
...(FT) Lemons in Amalfi, steak in New York Tourist hotspots may be empty but there is still hard work — and hope....
...(New Yorker) High steaks If you’re the kind of person who likes to be in the presence of London’s city traders, there’s no better place than Hawksmoor....
...In Omaha, Mr Buffett’s favourite restaurant is Gorat’s steak house. When Gorat’s offers a buffet, it’s a balanced menu....
...When Kraft’s snack brands such as Cadbury and Oreo were demerged into Mondelez International in 2012, Kraft was left with history....
...The Sage of Omaha cultivates a cosy, avuncular image as a friendly investor who cherishes incumbent management....
...It is this quality in the Sage of Omaha that Fosun would do well to imitate. Join Lex for a live Facebook debate on this week’s topics on Friday (3pm BST, 10am EDT)...
...The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate, whose collection of businesses also includes Dairy Queen, the Duracell battery company, and Benjamin Moore paints, said net income fell nearly 15 per cent from a year...
...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...
...His first glimpse of the international power of TV came during his time as a maths teacher in Swaziland 30 years ago....
...But the recent bid for Unilever by Kraft Heinz — of which the Omaha billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway and private equity group 3G Capital are principal shareholders — was never going to be friendly....
...The holding company is called Restaurant Brands International (RBI). 2015 Heinz buys Kraft Foods for $62.6bn....
...The international acceleration has given way to falling sales at some companies and lacklustre expansion at others....
...The privately held Minnesota company controlled by the Cargill and MacMillan families has a sprawling set of businesses, from beef packing plants to international grain trading....
...When the chips are really down, you can count on the Sage of Omaha to pull up in his beat-up jalopy and strike a deal that leaves everyone feeling warm and fuzzy....
...Trailing the loping, silver-haired Democrat closely as he works the crowd at Omaha’s annual El Grito parade is a translator who repeats quietly in Spanish: “His name is Brad Ashford....
...This is the group that won a Queen’s Award for international trade in 2015 having almost doubled revenues in three years....
...On Wednesday, Chinese investment conglomerate Fosun International said it would no longer buy Israeli insurance company Phoenix....
...Among the tens of thousands of wannabe Warren Buffetts who converged on Omaha last weekend to listen to his utterances on his 50th anniversary at Berkshire Hathaway were a crowd of Chinese investors, eager...
...Much of it stems from the pivotal role of American International Group in the 2008 financial crisis....
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