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Back to news homeBerkshire Hathaway Reports Major Investment Losses in 2022
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 […]
A 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 […]
Who Is on the New Gates Foundation Board?
No former Microsoft executives were named to the board, even though two of the foundation’s past chief executives came from the software company (as did Ms. French Gates and, of […]
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 […]
Bill Gates Can Remove Melinda French Gates From Foundation in Two Years
Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates have at times referred to the foundation they established together as their “fourth child.” If over the next two years they can’t find a […]
Bill and Melinda Gateses’ Divorce Spotlights a Secretive Fortune
The fortune of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates exceeds the size of Morocco’s annual economy, combines the value of Ford, Twitter and Marriott International and is triple the endowment […]
The Separate Worlds of Bill and Melinda Gates
“It was a constant tension point of the foundation. It was Warren who limited it, but Bill’s appetite is always, ‘We should do this, we should do this.’ Teams end […]
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 […]
Hundreds of Companies Unite to Oppose Voting Rights Limits, but Others Abstain
On Tuesday, a spokesman for the bank said, “We publicly made our own strong statement last month about the critical importance of every citizen being able to exercise their fundamental […]