Buffett nears a milestone he doesn’t want: $100 billion in cash

Buffett’s own newspaper conglomerate announced the 2nd round of layoffs in 10 months. Regional and national advertisers are being hurt by online retailers, he said, causing them to reduce their print advertising. Buffett is number 3 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ($82 billion).

After spending $1.5 billion to buy back shares since 2008, he must decide whether to leverage Loews cash to go after the kind of beaten-down assets that have generated dramatic gains for him in the.

Remember this, Warren Buffett started with $100 and turned it into $30 billion. That means that it isn’t about the money you have, it’s about the knowledge you have. It means there are no real barriers to you getting rich if you’re willing to work hard and learn.

Berkshire won’t sell "good businesses" and is "very reluctant to sell sub-par businesses as long as we expect them to generate at least some cash and as long as we feel good about their managers and.

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While he’s certainly not infallible. The thing is, Verizon doesn’t really hit on the key points that Buffett would look for in an investment. It’s relatively slow growing, has few near-term.

Broadcom’s enterprise security business delivers more than $2 billion in annual revenue. Chipmaker broadcom formally announced its acquisition of Symantec’s enterprise business after the closing bell.

It doesn’t seem to be a. Frankly, Mr. Buffett is not one that’s going to pay 10 times revenues, per se, for software-as-a-service companies. And he has a lot of capital to put the work. They have.

Warren then referred to a recent WSJ article written by Jeremy Siegel that discussed funds flowing out of investments because baby boomers will need to cash in their investments during retirement. He said he respected Siegel, but he doesn’t find fund flows data useful. Q: What would Berkshire be like if you hadn’t met Charlie Munger?

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Procter & Gamble is recapitalizing Duracell with approximately $1.7 billion in cash. near 2.9%, Procter & Gamble doesn’t seem overvalued at all, so the case for selling the stock is not obvious.

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