Berkshire buys additional 2.6 million shares in Occidental Petroleum, filing shows
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WARREN Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought around 2.6 million shares of common stock in Occidental Petroleum over Jun 5 to 7, according to a US securities filing.
Buffett’s company bought additional shares in Occidental’s common stock for more than US$150 million and now owns about 250.6 million shares in the energy producer.
Occidental shares closed at US$59.48 on Friday (Jun 7).
As at March, Berkshire owned a roughly 28 per cent stake in Occidental.
Occidental previously announced it had entered into a joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway’s energy unit to extract lithium in their geothermal facility in California. REUTERS
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