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But the benchmark S&P 500 stock index also had its best week since March, and remains ahead of Berkshire in year-to-date performance (excluding dividends). The "market" is up 4.1 percent in 2009, compared to Berkshire's 6.3 percent drop.
Berkshire's advance this week comes just after Barron's bullish call on the stock last weekend. But at $90,500 today (Friday), BRK is still well below the 12-month price target of $110,000 that writer Andrew Barry called not "outlandish." They're also trading below their recent high of about $95,000 in early May.
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Two of Buffett's big investments from last fall were in the headlines this week.
Goldman Sachs [GS
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Not only is Buffett getting an annual interest rate of 10 percent on his $5 billion investment, the "bonus" warrants that were thrown into the deal are now worth almost $1.8 billion on their own. In March, those warrants were just becoming profitable.
But shares of General Electric [GE
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Of course, Buffett still gets the prime attraction of that deal, a 10 percent annual interest rate on his loan to GE, the same rate being paid by Goldman.
Current Berkshire stock prices:
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