Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett recently wrote an op-ed for Fortune, which is adapted from his upcoming Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) shareholder letter. In the editorial, the Oracle of Omaha explains why equities are the best long-term bet versus the alternatives such as gold and bonds. While this is hardly...

On Monday, the euro sold off against the US dollar as equity markets pulled back. Even with positive US jobs data on Friday, issues in Greece may have dominated traders' minds. Last year, Eurozone officials were adamant in their rhetoric that Greece would not default; that creditors would see a...

No matter how you slice and dice it, it is difficult to swallow when you see Warren Buffett's or Mitt Romney's taxes. You may think, how did they get their tax rates down to 15%? The challenge for many of us is not the tax rates, but the totality of taxes or the level of income we receive. As I...

One of the key metrics that Warren Buffett likes to look at when evaluating a business is its return on equity. The metric measures the amount of net income a company generates as a percentage of shareholder's equity and is useful for long-term investors who take the Buffett approach of evaluating...

Tonight, President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union Speech in front of a deeply divided, and unprecedentedly unpopular, Congress. In what many observers are characterizing as a kick-off to the President's 2012 re-election bid, the event is likely to be an opportunity for more political...

BLOOMBERG EXCLUSIVE: Warren Buffett and Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) spoke with Bloomberg Television's Betty Liu in Omaha, NE during their first in-person meeting following Rigell's pledge to give 15% of his salary to help pay down the national debt. Buffett said he would donate 15% of his income if...

They will call him a socialist. Some of them will call him a communist. The Republicans will be sharpening their teeth and loading up the weapons that they fight so hard for the right to carry, because Warren Buffett has once again publically criticized tax rates offered to millionaires and...

The start of a new year brings an opportunity to participate in a simple, yet potent investment theme: Investing in the dogs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It's as easy as purchasing an equal-weight basket of the Dow's 10 highest yielders and it works. In 2011, the strategy delivered a 12.2...

MidAmerican Energy Holdings, owned by famed investor Warren Buffet, announced yesterday that it was acquiring Topaz Solar Farm from First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR). MidAmerican will pay $2 billion for the solar farm, one of the two largest of such constructions in the world, according to Reuter...

Shares of First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), the largest U.S. solar energy company, are surging 8% on volume that has already eclipsed the daily average after the company agreed to sell a 550-megawatt solar energy farm in California to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A) MidAmerican Energy...