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Buffett's Berkshire will probably get just $100 million in GE stock in a warrant deal, far less than its return from Goldman Sachs warrants.
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'The Buffetts' of Baseball Win Championship
Posted By: Alex Crippen
The college team described (favorably) as the 'Buffets of Baseball' .. detailed in this post last Wednesday ... are now the first team in 10 years to win the College World Series two years in a row. Earlier tonight in Omaha, the Oregon State Beavers defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels 9 to 3, sweeping the best-of-three games final. It was a visit to Warren Buffett's modest house in Omaha that prompted Oregonian sportswriter John Canzano to write about the "common ground" between Buffett and the Beavers, calling them both "unpretentious, frugal, intelligent, remarkably understated and modest."
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Great Minds Again - Cramer's Analysis
Posted By: Alex Crippen
Now Jim Cramer himself is providing his take on Warren Buffett's stock picks. In a post earlier today, we showed you a Cramer-Buffett comparison from Stockpickr (a subsidiary of Cramer's own TheStreet.com).On Mad Money tonight, Jim went into even more detail but the results are similar: they agree more than they disagree .. no matter what you might have thought.
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Where's More Warren?
Posted By: Alex Crippen
We have a lot more Warren Buffett on the CNBC.com site. Check out All About Buffett which includes our special report The Billionaire Next Door featuring some fascinating in-depth conversations Buffett taped in Omaha with our own resident Buffett-expert Liz Claman. You can also see a slideshow from CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch: My Dad is Warren Buffett in which Howard, Susie and Peter Buffett share family snapshots. You can also get the latest quote and lots of other data about Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in CNBC.com's stock tools section.
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Buffett & Cramer: Great Minds That Think Alike?
Posted By: Alex Crippen
On the surface, long-term "sensible" investor Warren Buffett and "Mad Money" trader Jim Cramer appear to have two very different styles and you wouldn't expect much agreement between them. But Stockpickr (a subsidiary of TheStreet.com) president James Altucher did some analysis of Cramer's take on Buffett's stocks and found a lot of common ground.
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The Warren Buffetts of Baseball
Posted By: Alex Crippen
The Oregon State baseball team is in Omaha for the College World Series. John Canzano, covering the team for "The Oregonian" newspaper, stopped by Warren Buffett's famously unpretentious house, chatted with the neighbors, and found "common ground" between the billionaire and the baseball team.
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Welcome to CNBC.com's Warren Buffett Watch
Posted By: Alex Crippen
This is a new kind of blog for CNBC.com. Its focus isn't a CNBC personality, but he is someone almost everybody knows: Warren Buffett. My goal is to keep an eye on Warren Buffett, and what people are reporting, blogging or saying about Warren Buffett and his investments. He is, after all, one of the most successful investors of all time and his easy-going, plain-folks persona has made him a hero to many.
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Warren Buffett is arguably America’s most-admired and most-followed investor. Buffett is the largest shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the world’s most famous and most generous philanthropists. Legions of investors - from all walks of life - follow Buffett's homespun investment philosophy: invest in what you know, invest in value. Here on CNBC.com's Warren Buffett Watch, we’ll keep you up to date on what the “Oracle of Omaha” is doing by following Buffett's trades, words and deeds.
Warren Buffett
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The portfolio manager and short-selling expert offers CNBC’s Erin Burnett his “possible improbables” for 2007.
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An analysis of the billionaire signers of the Giving Pledge shows that most of them are bankers and financiers who are older than 65 and give to health and education causes.