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...In the news 3G asks investors for more time New York-based fund 3G Capital, which invests alongside Warren Buffett, is seeking to hold on to investors’ money for longer as Covid-19 uncertainty and sky-high...
...Warren Buffett has placed a $6bn contrarian bet on Japan’s five biggest trading houses, the century-old commodity specialists that are increasingly transforming into global venture capital and private equity...
...(FT) Buffett’s tin hat It is a bit alarming to find Warren Buffett making the same trades as everyone else, Robert Armstrong writes....
...Warren Buffett is not the only one having problems hunting for elephant-sized acquisitions....
...And not even poor Warren Buffett....
...Warren Ackerman, analyst at Barclays, said the market was already growing before the pandemic....
...Buffett stands by strategyBerkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett has stood by his decision to plough ever greater sums of the company’s cash pile into stocks as he struggled to find multibillion-dollar acquisition...
...Ms Warren is neck and neck with former US vice-president Joe Biden, according to an average of national polls. Edward Luce observes Bernie Sanders’ surprising rebound....
...Just ask Warren Buffett....
...(FT, NYT) Facebook chief comes out fighting Mark Zuckerberg has promised to “go to the mat and fight” Elizabeth Warren over her pledge to break up Facebook and other large technology companies if she becomes...
...In the latest edition of Swamp Notes, Rana Foroohar links an uptick in millennial spending if Ms Warren wins the nomination....
...In the news Berkshire Hathaway’s profits jump Warren Buffett’s cash pile has swollen to a record $122bn thanks to a surging US stock market that saw second-quarter profits climb 17 per cent — but with its...
...(FT) America’s coming mega-battle over tax Let’s imagine that Elizabeth Warren is the 2020 Democratic nominee, writes Edward Luce in Swamp Notes....
...(FT) Elizabeth Warren gains momentum For nearly six months, Joe Biden has been the undisputed frontrunner in the race among Democrats to take on Donald Trump in next year’s presidential election....
...Edward Luce argues that Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren stands to gain as Mr Biden, her chief rival, is caught in the crossfire....
...The latest non-cash charges comprised a $213m goodwill impairment on Maxwell House coffee and a $453m hit on assets in Australia, New Zealand and a Latin America exports business....
...Ms Bezos is the latest signatory to Giving Pledge, a charity started by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates in 2010, which now boasts a total list of 203 philanthropists from 23 countries....
...Warren Buffett, the largest shareholder in Wells Fargo, has called on the US bank to look outside Wall Street for a new chief executive who can restore its battered reputation....
...And read Anne-Marie Slaughter on Elizabeth Warren, a rite of passage and how Democrats are drawing foreign policy battle lines....
...The whereabouts of Ghislaine Maxwell, his alleged co-conspirator, remain a mystery, and for Mr Epstein’s victims, his suicide ended hopes of justice....
...A $10,000 stake in shares in Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s company, would have grown to $315,000 over the same period....
...(FT) Spotlight shifts to Tesla’s board There is a reason Warren Buffett has lamented board service of late. The billionaire investor believes directors’ contracts come with big time commitments....
...Profit margins at the group behind brands including Philadelphia cream cheese, Oscar Mayer hot dogs and Maxwell House coffee were “world leading”, he wrote in a memo to employees....
..., frozen pizzas launched last year with Oprah Winfrey; and MAX, an attempt to drag the 127-year-old coffee brand Maxwell House into the 21st century....
....” - Warren Buffett, in a video released by the Clinton campaign....
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