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Warren Buffett

Global Enterprise

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to buy Occidental’s chemical unit for US$9.7 billion

Buffett’s rising stakes are a vote of confidence for Japan’s trading houses.
Global Enterprise

Buffett’s Berkshire lifts stakes in Japan trading houses, buoys shares

UnitedHealth Group Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. Wall Street traders sent stocks down from all-time highs as data showed mixed indications on how American consumers are feeling about the economy. Investors also kept a close eye on a face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
Consumer & Healthcare

Buffett effect still holds as UnitedHealth soars through August

Buffett’s investment in UnitedHealth comes as the health company faces multiple crises.
Capital Markets & Currencies

Buffett buys US$1.6 billion UnitedHealth stake, sells T-Mobile

Kraft Heinz is now contemplating a spinoff of part of its business as it grapples with headwinds including inflation weighing on consumers' spending and people seeking healthier alternatives to its products.
Companies & Markets

Buffett’s Berkshire hit with US$3.8 billion Kraft Heinz charge

Now 94, Buffett began giving away his fortune in 2006.
Lifestyle

Warren Buffett donates record US$6 billion Berkshire shares

A cardboard cutout depicting Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet during a shareholders shopping day ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, US, on Friday, May 2, 2025. CEO Warren Buffett might offer thoughts on the direction of earnings at the May 3 annual meeting. Photographer: Dan Brouillette/Bloomberg
Opinion & Features

There won’t be another Warren Buffett because no one will have his advantages

(FILES) Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, attends the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 3, 2019. Buffett said May 3, 2025, he would retire from leading his Berkshire Hathaway business group by the end of the year and that he would recommend Greg Abel to take over. "The time has arrived where Greg should become the chief executive officer of the company at year end," Buffett told an annual shareholder meeting. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)
International

Warren Buffett: billionaire investor with simple tastes

Buffett is known most widely for his public stock-picking prowess, and a small group of stocks accounted for some 70 per cent of its US$263 billion stock portfolio.
Global Enterprise

CEOs celebrate Warren Buffett as he calls a close on 5,500,000% run

“I don’t think it’s a good idea to design a world where a few countries say, ha ha ha, we’ve won,” said Warren Buffett.
Global Enterprise

Warren Buffett to step down as Berkshire CEO after 60 years at helm, passes baton to vice-chairman

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