1. Kerry to profit big from sale of Heinz?

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    ... to Warren Buffett. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital announced Thursday that they are buying ... Heinz ketchup Co. for $23.3 billion. As part of the deal, the firms agreed to pay a per-share price ... at last check owned $3 million worth of shares in Heinz and could make hundreds of thousands

  2. Kicking Heinz ketchup to the curb

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    ... -backed private-equity firm 3G Capital. To be fair, Warren Buffett will own 50 percent of the company ... -owned Heinz was going to be jointly bought out by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian ... to buy Heinz. But Heinz is more than just about Ketchup, of course. It's a huge company that owns

  3. Warren Buffett's Bank of America

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    ... (Washington Free Beacon) -- Warren Buffetts stake in Bank of America Corp. increased in value ... abuse settlement with the five largest U.S. banks Thursday, records show. Buffett invested $5 ... billion in Bank of America (BofA) on Aug. 25, 2011. As part of his investment deal, Buffett gained

  4. A better inflation hedge than gold stocks

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    ... . On the other hand, the greatest investor of the last inflationary cycle – Warren Buffett &ndash ... analysts (including some of mine) will tell you to buy gold stocks and other companies that own hard ... . Buffett figured out, long before anyone else I can name, that the best way to profit from

  5. Buffett says 'free news' unsustainable

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    ... (BLOOMBERG) Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) struck a deal this month ... to acquire 63 newspapers, said he may buy more publications as the industry rethinks whether to offer free ... making progress in moving to something that makes more sense, Buffett wrote in a letter to editors

  6. Good LUK with your portfolio

    ... , they make big money (usually 10 percent of funds raised) for doing the IPO, and that is (most often) why ... that makes this deal different is that LUK is doing this one with Warren Buffett. The fact that Mr. Buffett ... "The Donald." But, has he ever made any money for stock investors? Take a look at the miserable

  7. Warren Buffett buying 63 newspapers

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    ... (OMAHA WORLD-TRIBUNE) Warren Buffett made good Thursday on his promise to buy more newspapers ... troubled Media General Inc. of Richmond, Va. And Buffett said Thursday he may buy more newspapers. Any ... , agreeing to buy 63 daily and weekly newspapers in the Southeast for $142 million from financially

  8. Buffett rule? Gallup asks wrong question

    ... : Buffett refuses to pay taxes the government says he owes. He hires the best lawyers money can buy ... as evidence of support for what Barack Obama has termed the "Buffett Rule," after billionaire Warren ... have already been paid on the money earned to make such investments. Buffett is one of those

  9. Tax-cheat Timmy to be swapped out?

    ... Warren Buffett and President Obama in the Oval Office, July 14, 2010 Billionaire ... investor Warren E. Buffett called Republican presidential candidates "pathetic" and "stupid ... " for unanimously opposing tax increases as part of any debt-cutting deal with the White House. Buffett made

  10. Beating the market? Not a chance

    ... Warren Buffett once said that the market does nothing 90 percent of the time, and the problem ... to buy tech stocks for him. Who is laughing now? Fast forward to one year later. Mr. Buffett ... with that is that you and I will never know when the other 10 percent will occur. That's why you want