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Kerry to profit big from sale of Heinz?
... 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
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Kicking Heinz ketchup to the curb
... -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
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Warren Buffett's Bank of America
... (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
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A better inflation hedge than gold stocks
... . 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
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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 ... (known as C&S to those that know them) own 30 percent of LUK themselves, so they are not going ... (which, by the way, even beats Warren Buffett's record during this time by about 4 percent a year
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Buffett says 'free news' unsustainable
... (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
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Warren Buffett buying 63 newspapers
... (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
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Where are the tech bulls?
... Jimmy (he is talking about himself) "I love tech" takes over for Warren "I hate tech" Buffett ... with a straight face: "Buy" at $70, at $60, at $50, at $40 and at $30 – and look what happened ... made on February 10, 2000, in an on-line chat session he held for his followers. Question: Jim, 5
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Buffett Rule bill leaves some millionaires untouched
... the Buffett Rule would require everyone with an income of $1 million or more to pay a 30% minimum ... federal income tax. It's named after billionaire Warren Buffett, who famously said his secretary paid taxes at a higher rate than he did. ... (Investor's Business Daily) President Obama brought the Buffett Rule front and center in his re
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Warren Buffett tells investors he has cancer
... (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.