Berkshire Hathaway News

John DeGoey is vice-president and associate portfolio manager at Burgeonvest Bick Securities.

The federal government is threatening "retaliatory measures" against the United States in a dispute over meat-labelling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory.

Charlie Munger, whose Berkshire Hathaway owns huge stakes in several leading banks, said this about the financial system a few years ago: We would be better off if we downsized the whole financial sector by about 80%. I don't think the rest of us have anything to gain having massive trading between computers which try to outwit one another with ... (more)

In a blow to the new Italian government, Fiat Industrial, one of the country's biggest companies, plans to move its tax residency to Britain.

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway likely has the power to block a plan to restructure ResCap that Ally plans to submit today to a bankruptcy-court judge.

Berkshire Hathaway has filed a lawsuit against NeighborCity.com, a real estate listing portal , despite the fact that the Warren Buffet's company is a licensee of the latter.

Mouser Electronics announced the 40th company anniversary milestone of Glenn Smith, Mouser's President and Chief Executive Officer.

Analysts' ratings : There were 23 buys, 18 holds and 1 sell, according to Bloomberg data.

Year-to-date, the octogenarian billionaire has seen his firm, Berkshire Hathaway , rally more than 25.6%. That's almost double the returns that investors have gotten from the broad market over that same period.

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Ms. Krishnamsetty is editor and co-founder of Insider Monkey , a finance website that provides free insider trading and hedge-fund stock-holdings data.

Readers of my articles know that I am enamored with the idea of low volatility investing.

With a brand-new chairman and president -- and a stock-split and improved dividend yield to boot -- everything seems to be going great for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies this week.

In this image released on Thursday, May 9, 2013, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett dips bonbon's with Victoria Melena , on Saturday May 4, 2013 during a visit to the See's Candies display at the 2013 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders meeting in Omaha, Neb.

Of course, that's not as true as it used to be. In fact, most railroads have actually done quite well lately - even in the face of a down economy.

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the largest inflow was seen in the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund , which added 6.6 million shares, or a 1.0% increase week over week.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., raised $717,931 through his PAC and joint fundraising committee during April.

Petroleo Brasileiro SA's $11 billion deal, the biggest on record for an emerging markets issuer, leads sales this month of $120.2 billion, on pace to exceed the unprecedented $162.6 billion sold in May 2008, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

NetJets - the fractional jet ownership company owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. - is the launch customer for the Challenger 350.

I've never had the pleasure of meeting Marvin Blum. But if I ever do, I'd like to shake his hand.