And BNSF Railway reported a slight drop in earnings, in large part because of the rising cost of fuel and lower volumes of shipments.Still, in his annual letter to shareholders […]
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Back to news homeA Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own
By 15, Ms. Britt Cool was president of the local farmers’ market, collecting dues from dozens of vendors. She also recruited several of her friends from high school to work […]
Can Paramount Compete With Netflix and Disney?
In January, the board of Paramount, including Shari Redstone, the company’s chair, met with a group of bankers to get an update on the media industry and to hear about […]
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Reports Drop in Earnings
The company’s financial filings also showed that Berkshire had dramatically increased its investment in the oil company giant Chevron to nearly $26 billion at the end of the first quarter, […]
Berkshire Hathaway Rebounds From the Pandemic
Warren E. Buffett is eager to make one point clear about Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate he controls: It is a good corporate American citizen.In announcing Berkshire’s nearly $90 billion profit […]
Berkshire Hathaway’s Profit Fell in the Third Quarter
Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett, on Saturday reported a sharp decrease in earnings in the third quarter, reflecting the turbulent financial markets as […]
Mobile Home Owners Fear Evictions as Pandemic Protections End
For more than two decades, Kimberly Burnworth has lived in a mobile home in rural West Virginia on a tract her grandfather acquired in the 1960s. A single mother, Ms. […]
Lithium Mining Projects May Not Be Green Friendly
Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first new large-scale lithium mine in […]
Berkshire Hathaway Shows a Rebound From the Pandemic
Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by Warren E. Buffett, reported $11.7 billion in net earnings in the first quarter on Saturday, swinging to a profit from a $49.7 billion loss […]