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...Warren Buffett said that the real estate business his company Berkshire Hathaway owns is seeing a small improvement in housing demand. The National Association of Realtors seemed to confirm his observations when it announced that the index for pending home sales went up in March. This data helped send the stock market higher as it stays true to form by rising on the most modest news...
...losses are also still rising and could eventually swamp earnings again at many banks. But the first-quarter profits weren't entirely imaginary. As we look ahead, banks really are in a position to make money. "This is a great time to be in banking, you know," said Warren Buffett - who owns shares in Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs - on CNBC back in March. "If you just get past the past." (See the best business deals...
...company with little history in the auto industry, viewed as potential leader of that shift? One answer is that last September, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, paid $230 million to buy a 9.8% stake in BYD. At a press conference at the time, David Sokol, chairman of MidAmerican Energy Holdings, the Berkshire Hathaway-owned company that made the investment, said he believed that BYD's technology was a "potential game changer if we're serious about reducing carbon-dioxide emissions." BYD has nearly 11,000 engineers and technicians working on battery technology at the company...
...private-equity firms has taken business from conventional banks. Now much of that shadow banking system is gone, and the surviving banks - battered as they may be - are gaining market share in everything from mortgage lending to investment banking. As Wells Fargo shareholder and Goldman Sachs bondholder Warren Buffett put it on CNBC in early March, "This is a great time to be in banking, you know, if you just get past the past...
...Almost every stock is down! Any stock you recommended is bad. You know, Warren Buffett, I could run tapes from him--he would look like a complete fool.' JIM CRAMER, host of CNBC's Mad Money, defending the network and saying the CNBC clips were taken out of context...