Topic: Warren Buffett

DaVita, the biggest U.S. operator of dialysis clinics, has agreed to buy privately-held HealthCare Partners for about $4.42 billion in cash and stock to expand into new markets to help offset potential revenue pressures in its main business.

Vulture capitalism: After every crisis, we learn how crafty investors cashed in while the rest of us gnawed our cuticles. Here's how you can join the lucky ones.

"It's dangerous for investors merely to mimic what large investors are doing, because you're always going to be late," says one market pro. "That includes not just buying but, importantly, selling."

Allowing high-frequency computer traders into the stock market is like letting “rats in the granary,” Warren Buffett’s right-hand man said in an exclusive CNBC interview.

It's not everyday you can find people to take the opposite side of a trade from Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, but then gold is not your average trade.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway posted a 67-percent increase in operating profit, helped by its performance in insurance underwriting and its non-insurance businesses.

Warren Buffett's right-hand man, Charlie Munger, agrees with his boss on most things but there's one area they disagree — gold.

Warren Buffett's company is expected to release its first-quarter earnings report Friday afternoon as shareholders gather for this weekend's Berkshire Hathaway's meeting.

Warren Buffett said Friday he had no plans to invest in the Facebook initial public offering, but said what’s happening with the social media giant is “extraordinary.”

CEO Warren Buffett's stage 1 prostate cancer is expected to dominate the conversation this weekend at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting.

It was a news-filled week for the markets and the business world in general: the return of market volatility, a worrisome report from the world’s most famous investor, oil price spikes and the end of tax season. Some stories were major market movers, while others you may have missed.  Click ahead to see what we believe are the more significant business events of the past week.

Warren Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway's succession plans have not changed, despite his diagnosis of stage 1 prostate cancer.

Warren Buffett has announced to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Click to read the statement.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO announced that he has been diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer in a letter to shareholders on Tuesday.

For the majority of the country, $4 gas isn’t going to doom the American economy. Here’s why.