Wall Street

...Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI)? On Tuesday, Buffett turned heads on Wall Street when he placed his biggest bet of his career on rails - and the battered USA economy, for that matter. WHAT BERKSHIRE SAYS: 'All-in wager on the...

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The stock dropped 32 per cent in 2008. The value of Berkshire's warrants in Goldman has surged about 50 per cent since Mr Buffett reached its deal with the Wall Street firm in September 2008. Mr Buffett's GE warrants remain under...

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...on a $10.6 million investment. Environments like this one are ripe for Pabrai's strategy because the market is full of stocks that Wall Street won't touch, because it confuses uncertainty with risk. As Pabrai told my Foolish colleague...

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...think tank that promotes innovative thought across the ideological spectrum. CNN) -- Goldman Sachs, the most profitable firm on Wall Street, announced last week that it will set aside $500 million for "10,000 Small Businesses," a...

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...volume by drawing in unfamiliar buyers. Wild swings in a company's shares may benefit Wall Street trading desks but they do no service to long-term holders, as Buffett has acknowledged. He has written that he aims to have Berkshire...

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Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is the largest shareholder in Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs, the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, is trying to dispel criticism from lawmakers and pundits who portray the company as...

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...open when trading begins. Wall Street ended a volatile day mixed on Tuesday as investors digested rising commodity prices and Warren Buffett's buyout of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI, Fortune 500). But positive market momentum...

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...$100 a share in cash and stock. His investment is $34 billion, not counting assumed debt. The purchase stunned Wall Street, but was vintage Buffett. The 79-year-old investor, through Berkshire Hathaway, is known as the "Oracle of Omaha" for...

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...updated: November 3 2009 19:14 Wall Street edged lower on Tuesday in spite of a significant deal in the railroad industry by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway as concerns about the banking sector lingered. Financial stocks led the market...

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