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Stocks ended near session lows Thursday pressured by a handful of weak economic data and as some Fed officials stated their openness to tapering the central bank's bond-buying program in the coming months.
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Warren Buffett's son Peter sees a bright future for the "girl effect." Today, he and his wife are joining with Nike in a $100 million investment to help "adolescent girls in developing countries bring unprecedented social and economic change to their families, communities and countries."
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Warren Buffett summarizes the three "bedrock" ideas that he learned at age 19 and have helped make him the world's most successful investor.
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Blame for the sub-prime crisis lies at the feet of banks who took too many risks in mortgage lending, Warren Buffett told a Madrid newspaper. Earlier, the billionaire investor said he expected a "long, deep" recession.
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Warren Buffett's news conference in Milan, Italy, divided into four video clips.
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Warren Buffett told reporters in Italy today that the high price of oil doesn't really affect his investment decisions. In response to a question from CNBC Europe's Anna Martin, Buffett said that while oil does affect his operating businesses, it has a similar effect on his competitors. "There's a real impact on society, but not much on our investment decisions."
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CNBC.com is planning live coverage from Milan of Warren Buffett's fourth news conference in four days. It's scheduled for 11:45a ET.You can see the entire event on our Live Video player.
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Warren Buffett's news conference in Madrid, Spain, divided into four video clips.
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Warren Buffett's European media blitz continues today with a news conference in Madrid. It's the third time he's met with reporters in as many days. With his customary bottle of Coca-Cola in front of him and a scratchy voice, Buffett said there would be no deals announced today or tomorrow, or anytime soon, as a direct result of his trip.
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CNBC.com is planning live coverage from Madrid of Warren Buffett's third news conference in three days. It's scheduled for 12p ET.You can see the entire event on our Live Video player.
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Bidding for the Annual Warren Buffett Lunch Charity Auction begins June 22 and ends June 27, according to an announcement today from a PR firm publicizing the event. The on-line auction will be conducted through eBay Giving Works. The winner gets to invite up to seven guests to join him or her for lunch with Warren Buffett at New York's Smith & Wollensky restaurant.
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Warren Buffett's news conference today in Lausanne, Switzerland, divided into three video clips.
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Warren Buffett revealed during his Swiss news conference today that he broke his toe last week during a visit to the home of his "extremely good friend" Bill Gates. And, he quipped, if his lawsuit against Gates is successful, he'll be able to increase his lead over the Microsoft chairman as the world's richest man on the Forbes list of global billionaires.
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Warren Buffett tells reporters in Switzerland he can "guarantee" he won't buy a European company by the end of his tour this week. It's another indication his visit is designed to lay the groundwork for potential deals in the future, rather than actually pick up a company on the spot.
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Short seller Doug Kass tells CNBC's Larry Kudlow he thinks Warren Buffett has lost his way, and Kass is betting on Berkshire Hathaway's stock to fall. In an appearance tonight (Monday) on Kudlow and Company, Kass, who is President of Seabreeze Partners Management, explains why he's taken a short position in Berkshire.
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CNBC.com and CNBC are planning live coverage of tomorrow's scheduled news conference by Warren Buffett in Switzerland, the second stop of his European shopping tour. It's set to begin tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 8:45a ET. CNBC.com will provide a live video stream of the entire event. CNBC's Squawk Box also plans extensive live coverage.
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Warren Buffett held a news conference this morning in Frankfurt as he began his four-day European tour to increase Berkshire's profile among family-owned businesses that may be looking for a buyer. This post includes a video clip of the first quarter-hour of Buffett's news conference.
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Warren Buffett has held a news conference after arriving in Frankfurt for the first stop of his European tour designed to get on the "radar screen" of family-owned businesses that may want to become part of the Berkshire Hathaway family. In that session with reports this morning, Buffett repeated his intention to look for a company in a business he understands, with a durable competitive advantage and solid management.
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway won't be bidding for the insurance unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, according to a report late today from Dow Jones Newswires.
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What's Buffett buying? The answer appears to be 'not much' in the first quarter of this year, although his stakes in two healthcare companies and Kraft Foods did increase somewhat. Berkshire Hathaway's just-released disclosure of its U.S. stock portfolio holdings as of March 31 does not include any new names.
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will soon reveal its portfolio holdings as of the end of the first quarter. I expect the SEC filing after the stock market's closing bell either today (Wednesday) or tomorrow (Thursday). UPDATE: Didn't happen Wednesday, so I'll be watching especially closely today.