In this episode of Industry Focus: Energy, Nick Sciple chats with Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall about the oil and gas pipeline industry. They provide a breakdown of the industry and talk about some recent deals, including one made by Warren...
As CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and cofounder of OpenAI, Elon Musk seems to be everywhere all at once.
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By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights LATEST NEWS AND INSIGHTS Why is Warren Buffett buying fossil fuels when everyone else is selling? Big week for pipeline protestors, not so much for...
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When former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault left the board of Facebook and was nominated to Berkshire Hathaway’s board, he became the first African American director recruited to Warren Buffett’s iconic conglomerate.That means...
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Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) just made its first investment of the COVID era by purchasing the natural gas assets of Dominion (NYSE: D).In this episode of Industry Focus: Financials, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt...
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While investors were not happy about Dominion Energy's sale of natural gas assets and other major changes to the company's business, analysts were more upbeat.
AAPL shares now make up 43% of Berkshire Hathaway’s stocks, says a new analysis. Warren Buffett’s conglomerate owns $91.3B worth of Apple stock – giving it 5.5% of the company – of a total $213.6B across all 46 companies in its...
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Residential solar installer Sunrun is acquiring Vivint a few days after Berkshire Hathaway acquired the natural gas pipeline business of Dominion Energy.
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Few investors are as revered on Wall Street and among the investing community as Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett. Although Buffett has actually underperformed the benchmark S&P 500 on a trailing 10-year basis,...
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I woke up the other day, hooked up my intravenous coffee drip, and looked at the news headlines on my phone.It was bad news all the way down.A bit of escapism was in order. And there are few better escapes than Key West.The good news is that two of...
Warren Buffett ranks as one of the greatest investors of all time. But the billionaire's investments didn't fare well in the first half of 2020. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) shares fell 21% in the first six months of the...
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On paper, it would appear the first half of 2020 set up nicely for Warren Buffett, the investor who famously said, "Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others were greedy." Investors were certainly fearful in February and March as...
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway utility company, Boeing and AT&T are few of the firms the Fed snapped up as part of its corporate debt purchases.
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My back to work morning train WFH reads:
• Buffett Missed Out on Crisis, Revealing Berkshire’s Big Weakness (Businessweek)
• Markets Bombed, Investors Carried On (Wall Street Journal)
• Breaking the Rules: Timeless financial principles?...
Using the investment ideas of billionaire investors and money managers is a good launching pad for your own stock research. Now, don't blindly follow the so-called smart money, because even they get it wrong sometimes. Just look at how Warren...
Egon Durban, the co-CEO of private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, is a newly-minted billionaire drawing comparisons to Warren Buffett, with membership in some of golf's most exclusive clubs and an inside track to the Oscars.
A Texas native...
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It's always good to be honest with oneself in investing. By taking a hard look at past investment decisions and evaluating why you were either right or wrong, you make yourself a better investor. In fact, Warren Buffett once said, "Post-mortems...
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"Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest," the famed investor cautioned after the dot-com bubble burst.
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“It’s five o’clock somewhere,” as Jimmy Buffett famously sings, but you won’t be able get any margaritas in Florida or Texas bars at five or any other time for awhile. Governors in both...
Legendary investor Warren Buffett said, "It's better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price." You can read that to mean Buffett isn't buying cheap stocks, and you shouldn't either.Low-priced stocks have...