Warren Buffett's new bond insurer has seen its business "skyrocket" since opening for business just five months ago.   In a big-picture piece summarizing first quarter results, Dow Jones Newswires compares the early numbers from Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp. to the established, and struggling, bond insurers.    Read More

Changes to CNBC's prime time programming for Sunday, May 18th can be found within the following article.   Read More

The top executive at a Berkshire Hathaway real estate company tells CNBC, "We are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel" for the nation's housing market.  See the video clips of his Squawk Box appearances as Guest Co-Host this morning.   Read More

Warren Buffett's big guest role on the ABC soap opera All My Children airs tomorrow (Friday, March 8.)  CNBC's Becky Quick was at the studio on the day Buffett taped his appearance. Here's her behind-the-scenes report from this morning's Squawk Box on the longtime friendship that helped put Buffett on the small screen.    Read More

When Apple's Steve Job's picked Israeli Yael Naim's "New Soul" for the Mac Air commercial, it wasn't the first time Silicon Valley connected with Israel.  In fact, Israel has more companies traded on the tech heavy Nasdaq than any other country outside the United States.  As Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary of statehood, here are some more facts and figures on the Israeli economy and markets...   Read More

Wish you bought into Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway before it was $130,000 per share? James Altucher, managing director at Formula Capital, told CNBC about three stocks that just may be "the next Berkshires." If he's right, investors will want to buy'em while they're low.   Read More

Here is a (somewhat rough) transcript of Warren Buffett's live interview with Becky Quick on Squawk Box this morning, following this weekend's Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting.   Read More

In a live interview at 8a ET this morning on CNBC, Warren Buffett tells Becky Quick there's not much need for more rate cuts.  He thinks the Federal Reserve should "quit now" on its series of interest rate reductions.   SEE THE VIDEO CLIP.   Read More

CNBC's Becky Quick is reporting this morning from Omaha on the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders meeting over the weekend. In this clip, she shows us an excerpt from her Buffett interview on the exposition floor, asking how much cash Berkshire has on hand. Buffett also comments on how some of the key people involved in the Microsoft-Yahoo fight were brought together in Omaha.    Read More

In this video clip from this morning's Squawk Box, Becky Quick reports from Omaha that the big crowd attending the weekend's Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders meeting do a lot of spending while they're in town.   Read More