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...Warren Buffett’s personal affinity for the companies in his portfolio is often mixed with the harder-headed business decisions made by him or his managers....
...Among the rest of the world’s top 100 companies by market value, Berkshire Hathaway under Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan are unlikely to qualify: too much plain speaking and clear strategy....
...Senator Elizabeth Warren this week branded Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell a “dangerous man” based on perceived weaknesses in bank regulation....
...Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, Alibaba’s Daniel Zhang, Visa’s Alfred Kelly, JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon and Johnson & Johnson’s Alex Gorsky all have combined roles....
...Designating big tech companies as utilities was step one in a plan for regulation from Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senator, when she was competing to be the party’s nominee for president....
...Snowflake, backed by Warren Buffett and whose lead underwriter was Goldman, was priced at $120 a share before surging to close the first day at $253.93, 111.6 per cent higher....
...Warren Buffett this week announced the sale of his newspaper business, parting with such romantic titles as the Hickory Daily Record in North Carolina and The Daily Nonpareil in Council Bluffs, Iowa....
...It is true that a victory for Joe Biden, especially with a leftwing running mate such as Elizabeth Warren, and certainly if the Democrats win back the Senate, is a different proposition for corporate America...
...(FT) Unequal vaccine access will return to haunt the rich, writes David Pilling and Tom Braithwaite says forget the ‘beginning of the end’, Covid is a permawar....
...Now Occidental is on a cost-cutting spree to try to redeem itself in the eyes of shareholders including veteran corporate raider Carl Icahn, and lenders, including Warren Buffett....
...Ms Warren, by contrast, has said it was “just wrong” to call her a socialist....
...(FT) Berkshire Hathaway profits surge Warren Buffett’s conglomerate reported a surge in profits in the second quarter, offsetting a near $10bn writedown on its largest manufacturing business and a slide...
...Acolytes of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett have had a trying 10 years scouring balance sheets in search of undervalued gems. Tech has blown everything away. This is no flash in the pan....
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...When Warren Buffett bagged his last “elephant” back in 2015, he did not bother pretending it was a bargain....
...Warren Buffett, whose legendary record has been clouded by some leaner years, acknowledged last month that he was “wrong in a couple of ways” about Kraft Heinz after losing $2.7bn last year on the packaged...
...Even Warren Buffett, the ultimate value investor, advises mere mortals to buy cheap index trackers....
...Tom Braithwaite 1. Tesla Sector: Automotive / HQ: Palo Alto, us Some thought Tesla’s $75bn valuation at the start of 2020 was looking bubbly....
...companies in the US (and the world): Jeff Bezos owns 16 per cent of Amazon, worth $138bn; Larry Page owns 6 per cent of Alphabet, worth $45bn; Mark Zuckerberg owns 13 per cent of Facebook, worth $75bn; and Warren...
...Smart Reads Buffett goes for JPM For years many of the big name American banks caught the attention of Warren Buffett. There was one glaring exception until now . . . JPMorgan Chase. Why?...
...As Warren Buffett likes to point out, most investors got burnt: of 2,000 US car companies at the start of the 20th century three endured....
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