Warren Buffet

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was questioned earlier in the year by U.S. regulators on why the holding company didn't write down $1.86 billion in losses largely from its investments in Kraft Foods Inc. and U.S. Bancorp during the second quarter.

The euro has posted its biggest quarterly gain in eight years, but billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett is worried about Europe's common currency. Despite the E.U.'s trillion-dollar bailout fund, he's not sure the Continent will be able to avert a sovereign debt meltdown.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett said stock prices are likely to rise faster than bond prices, but that many investors are making the mistake of choosing to buy bonds due to a lack of confidence in the U.S. economy, CNBC reported.

Forty of the richest people in the United States, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among them, have challenged other magnates to match their largesse by pledging to leave half of their estate to charity on their demise. Our friends at Mint.com took a look at what this money could accomplish. Quite a...

While frugality has never been in style in Hollywood, some celebrities can stretch a dollar with the best of us – and they were doing it even before the economy took a nosedive. Here are five celebrities who always found it hip to be budget conscious: Beyonce Knowles She's the face of...

A new online poll indicates that we have a ways to go before the residential real estate market in this country returns to anything resembling "normal" because the vast majority of those polled -- 69% -- don't even believe we have hit the bottom in home sales. That means that if you are looking...

Warren Buffett, widely known as an investment genius, is little noted for his PR skills, yet he's a Teflon titan who attracts little whiff of scandal. He managed to run with ethics-challenged Wall Street icons Salomon Bros. and Goldman Sachs, only to emerge ever richer, with his reputation intact.

Kraft has offered more cash in its proposal to buy Cadbury, but neither Cadbury nor Warren Buffett, Kraft's major shareholder, likes the plan.