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...In the Midwestern state of Nebraska, community bankers who objected to having their hands tied when doing business helped doom the legislation....
...Munger was born on January 1 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied meteorology while serving in the army during the second world war before graduating from Harvard Law School....
...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....
...The Omaha, Nebraska-based company sold more than 85 per cent of its stake in chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, a position it had taken just months earlier when it purchased shares worth $4.1bn...
...But at this year’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, they got their best view yet of the man whom Buffett regards as the answer to the succession question: Greg Abel, the 60-year-old vice-chair of the company...
...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....
...maintain the reliable electricity service our communities have come to expect,” Javier Fernandez, chief executive of the Omaha Public Power District, said this month as he deferred the conversion of two Nebraska...
...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...
...Occidental chief executive Vicki Hollub flew to Berkshire’s headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, to secure a $10bn financing package to close the deal....
...For those that didn’t see Judge Furman’s ruling coming, they need only have looked at his decision on Windstream in 2019....
...The annual gathering took place in Los Angeles rather than Omaha, Nebraska, where the event typically draws tens of thousands of Berkshire shareholders who come to listen to Buffet’s investment and life...
...According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Omaha, Nebraska-based company also bought 48.5m shares in Chevron in the second half of 2020 worth $4.1bn at the end of last year, as...
...The Omaha, Nebraska-based company sold 110.2m shares in Wells Fargo, or just under half its stake, as well as 21.2m shares of JPMorgan....
...But the coronavirus outbreak prompted Berkshire to conduct its annual meeting by video and Messrs Jain and Munger decided against travelling to Nebraska for the event....
...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....
...Mr Buffett was joined at the annual meeting by vice-chairman Greg Abel, but without his usual sparring partner Charlie Munger and the 40,000-plus shareholders who normally descend on Omaha, Nebraska....
...Windstream took on the CDS mischief issue head-on its press release: “Windstream strongly disagrees with Judge Furman’s decision,” Tony Thomas Windstream CEO said....
...That surety bond will pay in full the notes our fund owns when Windstream loses the appeal. We are happy to take the surety company’s credit over Windstream’s.”...
...But it isn’t just Windstream’s management that Brodsky is aggravating. The other big losers in Windstream are heavy-hitting hedge funds, including his former employer....
...Tiffany would have complemented Borsheims, the Nebraska jeweller Berkshire acquired 30 years ago, to which shareholders flock during Mr Buffett’s annual meeting in Omaha....
...The Omaha, Nebraska, conglomerate changed its buyback policy last year, and some shareholders are frustrated that the company hasn’t spent significantly more cash repurchasing its stock....
...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....
...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....
...Mark Brodsky told the FT in September, he had taken on Windstream because, “there’s nothing new about lenders enforcing covenants....
...Thank you "Stalin's Gran": Other notable contributions included this, from "DM": This from "GoliathNationalBank": And last but not least, "Nebraska", who we gave an Editor's Pick award to: Expect more...
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