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Buffett's Berkshire discloses 2.8 percent stake in Goldman Sachs - Reuters, 08 October 2013 Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRK-A) disclosed a 2.8 percent passive stake in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS) as it converted warrants acquired during the financial crisis. Warren Buffett’s highest-yielding dividend stocks – 27/7 Wall St, 08 October 2013 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A) and Warren Buffett generally hold close to 40 different stock positions in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio of U.S.-listed shares. Anyone who has followed Buffett's investment holdings through time knows that he loves to invest in dividend stocks. It also happens that 24/7 Wall St. loves dividends as well. Buffett’s crisis-time bets show that sometimes greed pays off - Wall St. Cheat Sheet, 07 October 2013 It’s starting to look like the late-2000s crisis was bad for everyone except Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett. During a period in which trillions of dollars of household and corporate wealth evaporated into a nebulous cloud of financial fairy dust and credit pipelines froze, Berkshire opened its wallet and lent tens of billions of dollars. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) - Asbestos Problems - Seeking Alpha, 07 October 2013 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) has been Warren Buffett's signature effort for the past 50 years. It is a multinational conglomerate holding company that includes a wide range of industries. Buffett makes sweet profit off Mars Investment - Wall St. Cheat Sheet, 05 October 2013 Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKA)(NYSE:BRKB) Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett has logged a lot of wins in the wake of the late-2000s crisis. During the crisis itself, the firm served as a white knight investor to major companies with a need for a huge amount of cash, and fast. Goldman Sachs hard money lender Warren Buffett gets paid again - Seeking Alpha, 02 October 2013 The name Goldman Sachs (GS) has been one of the premiere names in investment banking in America since the 1800s. However, its sterling reputation did not prevent the company from being involved in the subprime mortgage crisis that threatened to sink the global economy. Buffett's $2.15 billion payday - The Motley Fool, 01 October 2013 On Tuesday, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A ) (NYSE: BRK-B ) was set to become the sixth-largest external investor in Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS ) by grabbing a stake in the banking giant worth around $2.15 billion. AIG's buffer against Buffett - The Motley Fool, 28 September 2013 Imagine you're one of the leading insurance providers in the world, back on track after some troubled times. Everything seems to be going great until WHAM -- four of your top guys head elsewhere to start another business that will compete with yours. Seven stocks that Warren Buffett never should have sold - 24/7 Wall St., 27 September 2013 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A) and Warren Buffett often are followed in corporate America as the undisputed investment kingmakers of all time. And 2013 has been an incredibly strong year, with gains so far of nearly 30% for this year alone. Pimco sees Buffett’s India dream cut to junk as vote looms - Bloomberg, 26 September 2013 Little more than two years after Warren Buffett labeled India a “dream market,” the economy is expanding at the slowest pace in a decade and the nation’s debt ratings are at risk of being cut to junk. Warren Buffett won't abandon Bank of America - The Motley Fool, 21 September 2013 Two years ago, Warren Buffett called Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan to suggest a deal. In exchange for a $5 billion investment, which would serve as a vote of confidence in the nation's second largest lender, Berkshire Hathaway received preferred stock that paid a 6% annual dividend and warrants for 700 million shares of common stock with an exercise price of $7.14 a share, the market price at the time.

Warren Buffett - The Investor

Buffett isn’t the only Secret to Berkshire’s success - Wall St. Cheat Sheet, 14 October 2013 It is sometimes easy to forget that there is more to the success of Berkshire Hathaway than mad genius Warren Buffet, who serves as the company’s chairman and CEO. Buffett, a self-made billionaire who is widely respected for his patient, long-term view of markets and business, is both the face of the company and the mastermind behind its enormous success — but the operation is by no means a one-man show. 4 steps to invest like Warren Buffett - The Motley Fool, 09 October 2013 As the memories and pain from the GFC begin to fade away, and our business and investment minds turn to what is happening now or in the near future, some of the wisdom harvested from the experience has to be remembered, or we’ll just do the same thing again next time. 5 Buffett traits that lead me to Microsoft - Seeking Alpha, 08 October 2013 Everyone who invests wants to be good at it. We all think we are smart enough to figure out what stock or what fund will make us money. If you are like me, you do your research, determine how the business is performing, asses the stock price and then decide if you are going to buy the stock or not. A Buffett investment analogy for cricket fans - The Motley Fool, 04 October 2013 Investor and founder of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) Warren Buffett is renowned for many things, including being one of the richest people in the world. However for Fools such as me, of far more interest than the fact that Buffett is rich, is the details of how he became rich! The best investments Warren Buffett ever made - The Motley Fool, 24 September 2013 In his 2011 Letter to Shareholders, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A, BRK-B) Chairman Warren Buffett puts investments into three major categories. His comments about each category defy conventional wisdom. 5 reasons Warren Buffett is a better Heisenberg than Bryan Cranston - The Motly Fool, 15 September 2013 Breaking Bad's Walter White, a.k.a. Heisenberg, and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett possess some strikingly similar traits. Both dominate their respective businesses from relatively obscure areas of the country -- Albuquerque, N.M., and Ohama, Neb. Both have battled cancer.

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How Warren Buffett made life easy for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - The Motley Fool, 14 October 2013 The founder of online retail giant Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) Jeff Bezos recently made headlines when he purchased the US newspaper The Washington Post for US$250 million from The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO), a media company majority-owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A). Why Buffett's $10 billion haul won't be the last - The Motley Fool, 12 October 2013 Warren Buffett's investing genius pays off once again. Berkshire Hathaway has now racked up a whopping $10 billion profit on investments made during the financial crisis. Moody's rates Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp's senior notes Aa2 - Moody's, 08 October 2013 Moody's Investors Service has assigned Aa2 ratings to $400 million of three-year and $550 million of seven-year notes being issued by Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corporation (BHFC). Buffett vs. Twitter: Two smart #investing styles - MarketWatch, 08 October 2013 Today let’s talk about two big investment strategies in the news. They are beckoning, like personal ads on Craigslist. There is the hot young thing in Twitter Inc. (TWTR), which filed for its initial public offering last week. Warren Buffett rebukes Politicians to help Berkshire Shareholders - Seeking Alpha, 07 October 2013 The recent government shutdown has highlighted the dysfunction in the U.S. government. Approving funding that the government has already legislated now seems to be a common political practice. How the negotiations will ultimately play out was the subject of a recent interview of Warren Buffett by CNBC. Buffett likens debt fight to 'nuclear bombs' - Fortune, 04 October 2013 Fighting about the debt ceiling "ought to be banned as a weapon," says Warren Buffett. "It should be like nuclear bombs: too horrible to use." Warren Buffett on the Fed: Great Experiment, Greatest Hedge Fund - Wall St. Cheat Sheet, 21 September 2013 At Georgetown University in Washington on Thursday, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett told students that the U.S. Federal Reserve is “the greatest hedge fund in history.” Warren Buffett: Washington just likes to bluff - CNBC, 20 September 2013 Forget the big taper countdown, the markets' new fixation is the fight over the federal budget. In the extreme, it could lead to a partial government shutdown, even a Treasury default. How likely is that? Berkshire Billionaire found with more shares than Gates - Bloomberg, 20 September 2013 Stewart Horejsi’s business was in a funk. It was 1980, and Brown Welding Supply LLC, his family’s third-generation distributor of hydrogen and oxygen tanks, was battling competitors that were intent on expanding into the corner of Kansas he controlled. Not lifting U.S. debt ceiling would be 'dumb': Buffett - Reuters, 20 September 2013 Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that politicians not lifting the U.S. debt ceiling would be "pretty damn dumb" and viewed a prolonged political standoff on the issue as "disturbing." Buffett lauds Bernanke but laments lack of investment bargains - Reuters, 20 September 2013 Warren Buffett said on Thursday he would recommend reappointing Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chairman, while adding that low interest rates have inflated asset values and complicated his hunt for investments at his company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Do you own these potential Buffett targets? - Street Authority, 18 September 2013 Although most companies appear largely focused on dividends and buybacks these days, some still see the merits of a growth-inducing acquisition.