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 ... that's 20 percent more than the stock's closing price on Wednesday. That's great news for Kerry, who

  2. Kicking Heinz ketchup to the curb

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    ... -owned Heinz was going to be jointly bought out by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian ... -backed private-equity firm 3G Capital. To be fair, Warren Buffett will own 50 percent of the company ... 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. 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

  7. Good LUK with your portfolio

    ... that makes this deal different is that LUK is doing this one with Warren Buffett. The fact that Mr. Buffett ... (which, by the way, even beats Warren Buffett's record during this time by about 4 percent a year ... ). Even if you had bought LUK on Dec. 31, 1990, the next 10 years would have seen your annualized

  8. The long journey to quick wealth

    ... and the S&P 500 16 percent, according to a record of 1,300 of the CNBC star's buy recommendations ... mainly, punctuated by some sells. These picks were flat to down in relation to the market. Count ... ." This raises an age-old question. If "The Guy" knows everything – when to buy, when to sell

  9. Warren Buffett tells investors he has cancer

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    ... (MSNBC) Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor known as much for his folksy wisdom as his ... to shareholders, Buffett, 81, said that he had been diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer. The good news ... debilitating in any meaningful way, Buffett said in the letter.

  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

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