Warren Buffett

Buffett took control of Berkshire in 1965 when it was a struggling textile company and became chairman and CEO in 1970

Even in the age of algorithms, short attention spans and TikTok teases, Warren Buffett continued to profit with his patient bargain-hunting approach while offering folksy advice on investing and life

Susan Decker will continue as lead independent director

Shakira has pledged to rebuild a minimum of 10 Colombian schools following a catastrophic earthquake that claimed hundreds of lives

CEO Greg Abel, who took over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year, agreed in June to make a $10 billion stock investment in Alphabet, expanding on the stake that Berkshire started to build last fall

The complaints have mounted since the Fed’s regulatory policy chief participated in a small private dinner last month with Bank of America’s clients just hours after voting on interest rates

Wall Street looked past geopolitical tensions with benchmark indexes rising on Big Tech strength and signs of easing inflation, even as Middle East hostilities escalated

On Tuesday, Buffett's firm Berkshire Hathaway stopped giving donations to the Microsoft co-founder's charity for the first time in 20 years and instead handed his remaining stock to foundations linked to his family

Warren Buffett: I am the driving force behind our bet on Alphabet

Buffett's advice often focuses on discipline, patience, and making thoughtful choices principles that have inspired entrepreneurs, professionals, and students across the globe

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Are Still Giving Away Their Fortunes

Buffett drops Gates charity from donation of $6bn Berkshire stake

A decision could come later in the year when he releases his annual Thanksgiving letter

The world’s first trillionaire is a man who gave an apparent Nazi salute and proceeded on a cost-cutting rampage through the U.S. federal government, at one point gutting an agency that fed needy children around the world for decades

In the span of just a few days, Berkshire committed nearly $17 billion across two major transactions, agreeing to acquire homebuilder Taylor Morrison Home for $6.8 billion, excluding debt, and investing $10 billion in Alphabet through a discounted private placement tied to the Google parent's massive artificial intelligence fundraising effort

Berkshire Hathaway 's new CEO Greg Abel started off the week with a $6.8 billion acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison and then followed that up Monday with a $10 billion stock investment in Google's parent company

Google parent Alphabet is asking investors for an extraordinary $80 billion to help finance one of the most ambitious artificial intelligence expansion plans ever undertaken by a technology company

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway executed one of its most significant portfolio overhauls in years during the first quarter of 2026, selling stakes in 16 companies while initiating new positions and boosting others as Greg Abel assumed the CEO role

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The Omaha-based conglomerate published its quarterly U.S. stock portfolio on Friday, under new CEO Greg Abel, who took the helm at the start of the year from legendary investor Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway more than tripled the size of its investment in Google's parent company and bought over $2.6 billion worth of Delta Airlines stock as Greg Abel settled into the CEO job after taking over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year

A once-in-a-lifetime private lunch with Warren Buffett, Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry fetched a staggering $9 million bid — equivalent to about $11.5 million Singapore dollars — in a charity auction that closed Thursday, delivering an immediate philanthropic windfall doubled by Buffett's personal matching pledge

Abel recently sought to reassure investors at Berkshire Hathaway’s first annual meeting without Buffett at the helm

Wall Street analysts came away from Greg Abel's first annual meeting at Berkshire Hathaway broadly impressed with his command of the business, but underwhelmed by the company's restrained pace of share buybacks

Abel, 63, who became chief executive in January, must earn the trust of investors increasingly focused on technology and artificial intelligence, unlike Berkshire's collection ‌of insurers, retailers and hard-asset businesses in energy, industrials and manufacturing

Berkshire’s Ailing Share Price Clouds Abel’s First Annual Meeting as CEO

Microsoft founder Bill Gates reportedly spoke "candidly" about his relationship to Epstein in a February town hall meeting of the influential foundation he started with his ex-wife Melinda French Gates

Greg Abel is wasting little time putting his stamp on Berkshire Hathaway 's investment portfolio, reportedly moving to unwind positions tied to the departed lieutenant Todd Combs

I don't want to be in a position where I know things… to be called as a witness,' Buffett added

It’s deeply troubling that billionaires have far more power in shaping our nation’s politics and policies than do average Americans, whether they’re auto workers, teachers, nurses, carpenters or supermarket cashiers

The Giving Pledge, once trendy among the world’s richest, has come upon hard times

Abel used his first letter to shareholders to underscore his investment bona fides and his commitment to the principles that predecessor Warren Buffett had long extolled

Five years after Warren Buffett sold off all of Berkshire Hathaway's newspapers and predicted unending declines for most of the industry, Berkshire disclosed a new $350 million investment in the New York Times on Tuesday

His compensation was set by Buffett during that period, and included a $21 million salary in 2024, a $20 million salary in 2023, and a $16 million salary plus a $3 million bonus in 2022

It’s a common refrain that markets hate uncertainty, which makes it odd that they continue to function — indeed flourish — against a geopolitical backdrop that feels anything but calm