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Hedge fund trader Doug Kass will quiz billionaire investor Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc's annual meeting in Omaha this Saturday.
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*Israeli unit of Berkshire makes metal cutting tools. *Berkshire buys 20 pct of Iscar it did not already own. Berkshire in 2006 bought an 80 percent stake in Iscar, a maker of metal cutting tools whose formal name is IMC International Metalworking Cos, for $4 billion.
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May 1- Ensign Group Inc:. *The Ensign Group acquires two Washington healthcare and senior housing. *Ensign subsidiary acquired Omaha nursing center, a skilled nursing facility.
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Warren Buffett may be on safari for major acquisitions, which he likes to call elephants, but shareholders may wonder if his Berkshire Hathaway has become the biggest elephant in the room.
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*Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting set for May 4. April 30- Warren Buffett may be on safari for major acquisitions, which he likes to call elephants, but shareholders may wonder if his Berkshire Hathaway Inc has become the biggest elephant in the room.
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EL RENO, Okla., April 29- Federal Reserve officials, as a rule, can expect a tough crowd when they visit places like Oklahoma where suspicion of big government runs deep. Esther George, president of the Kansas City Fed, is an exception.
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EL RENO, Okla., April 29- Federal Reserve officials, as a rule, can expect a tough crowd when they visit places like Oklahoma where suspicion of big government runs deep. Esther George, president of the Kansas City Fed, is an exception.
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EL RENO, Okla., April 29- Federal Reserve officials, as a rule, can expect a tough crowd when they visit places like Oklahoma where suspicion of big government runs deep. Esther George, president of the Kansas City Fed, is an exception.
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The proposed 830,000 barrel per day pipeline would link Canada's oil sands petroleum fields with U.S. Gulf Coast refineries and would also carry domestic oil from Montana and North Dakota.
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April 16- TD Ameritrade Holding Corp, the biggest U.S. discount brokerage by client trading volume, said on Tuesday that continued double-digit growth in client assets helped its quarterly profit rise 5.1 percent.
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April 16- TD Ameritrade Holding Corp, the biggest discount brokerage by client trading volume, said Tuesday that continued double-digit growth in client assets helped its fiscal second-quarter profit rise 5.1 percent from a year ago.
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March 20- Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is tripling the number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters. Walmart's "Scan& Go" program will soon be in more than 200 stores, up from about 70. The pilot began near its home office in Bentonville, Arkansas in late 2012, then expanded to Atlanta.
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*Inventories remain at 17- year low in monthly USDA report. The split reaction came as the USDA, in a monthly crop report, kept its forecast for supplies of both crops unchanged from February. Chicago Board of Trade May corn climbed 1.8 percent to $7.03- 1/ 2 a bushel, while December corn gained 1 percent to $5.47.
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One of the latest examples was told by the writer and provocateur Matt Taibbi, famed for having described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
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NEW YORK, March 5- Retail investors' renewed interest in stocks this year continued in February, according to comments from officials at TD Ameritrade Holding Corp and E* Trade Financial Corp..
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*Milling operations had total sales last year of $4.3 bln. March 5- Giant U.S. food and grain-handling companies ConAgra Foods Inc, Cargill and CHS Inc plan to combine their North American flour milling businesses into a new venture that would control more than a third of U.S. capacity, dwarfing all competitors in size and market reach.
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*Milling operations had total sales last year of $4.3 bln. March 5- Giant U.S. food and grain-handling companies ConAgra Foods Inc, Cargill and CHS Inc on Tuesday said they plan to combine their North American flour milling businesses into a new company called Ardent Mills.
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Warren Buffett has found his "credentialed bear" panelist- hedge fund manager Doug Kass- for this year's Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. But in an interview on CNBC Monday morning, Buffett said he had chosen Kass, the president of Seabreeze Partners Management in Florida and a well-known media personality in his own right.
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March 1- If you dislike Berkshire Hathaway- really dislike it, enough to put your money where your mouth is- Warren Buffett would like to hear from you. About 1 percent of the float on Berkshire's widely-held Class B stock is sold short, according to New York Stock Exchange data.
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Kansas bore the brunt of the storm, with up to 15 inches of snow in some parts of the state, according to the National Weather Service. A 200- mile stretch of Interstate 70 in central Kansas was closed and strewn with cars stuck in snow.
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Winter storm warnings and advisories were in place for much of the central and southern Plains and into the upper Midwest and Mississippi River Valley as the storm moved east, packing snow, sleet and freezing rain, the National Weather Service said.