Alex Crippen
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 12, 2026
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Buffett's confidence in troubled decade-old acquisition finally pays off (opens the original)
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(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Six years ago, when Berkshire Hathaway took an $11 billion write-down of its $37.2 billion 2016 acquisition of Precision Castparts, Warren Buffett wrote in his annual letter to shareholders he had paid "too much" for the company, which makes "complex metal components and products." While it was a "fine company
Abel: Two ways Berkshire hopes to cash in on AI (opens the original)
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(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel told CNBC the company is pursuing artificial intelligence opportunities on two paths. In a live "Squawk Box" interview Wednesday morning, Abel said he sees providing energy to the growing number of AI data centers as a "significant opportunity for Berkshire and Berkshire Hatha
Buffett remains active at 96, but Berkshire's shares aren't doing much (opens the original)
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(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Warren Buffett will be celebrating his 96th birthday on Sunday. Even though he is no longer Berkshire Hathaway's CEO, he remains very involved as chairman, apparently continuing to make the big decisions on equities, including the addition in recent quarters of what is now a $36.6 billion stake in Google pa
Warren Buffett Watch: It's Buffett, not Abel, who appears to be calling the shots on stocks (opens the original)
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(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Two weeks ago, Berkshire Hathaway reported its huge cash reserves declined by billions of dollars during the second quarter, the first significant drop since early 2022. It appeared to many, including me, that Greg Abel was making his mark as the company's new CEO by putting a "big chunk of Berkshire's cash
Berkshire adds $17 billion to Alphabet stake (opens the original)
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(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Google parent Alphabet is now the third largest holding in Berkshire Hathaway's equity portfolio. The company's Q2 portfolio snapshot filed with the SEC after today's closing bell reveals Berkshire owns almost 106 million of Alphabet's Class A and Class C shares, currently worth around $36.6 billion. That
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