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Berkshire Hathaway

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. announced changes in its investments in US stocks, which totaled $57.88 billion at the end of the second quarter, lower than $66.46 billion of investments as of March 31. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, Berkshire announced new holdings in NRG Energy Inc. while the company reduced its Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. (BUD:  News,   Chart,  Quote ) stock sharply and eliminated Trane Inc. holdings.

Devotees of Warren Buffett's investing strategy may need to look no farther for a bargain than the battered stock of the billionaire's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

``Regardless of what's happening to earnings, the cash is still rolling in and asset prices are down,'' which will help Berkshire add holdings, said Frank Betz, a partner at Warren, New Jersey-based Carret Zane Capital Management, which oversees $800 million, including Berkshire shares. ``It's Buffett time.''

Insight on whether Berkshire Hathaway stock is a value in itself, with Andrew Kilpatrick, Wachovia and Whitney Tilson, T2 Partners.

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Ever since Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) reported earnings earlier in the month, a number of people have been abuzz about the “losses” generated from marking-to-market some of the derivatives on the books. Barron’s had a Q&A with short hedge fund manager Doug Kass  where Kass said he was short BRK because of Buffett’s “investment-style drift,” which has led him to take large positions in derivatives instruments - which he famously derided as “financial weapons of mass destruction” in his 2002 letter to shareholders.

Warren Buffett has urged investors to lower their expectations during this queasy economic year. That's not exactly what they want to hear from Buffett, whose $62 billion net worth and excellent long-term track record tends to infect his admirers with overwrought expectations.

BR Anchor Susie Gharib spent the weekend in Omaha, Nebraska covering the 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders' Meeting. On tonight's program, she files a detailed report on the event and what Warren Buffett had to say about the state of his company. Susie's broadcast report includes excerpts of an interview she conducted with Buffett.

You can watch the complete six minute interview here

Berkshire Hathaway will consider investing in the insurance business of U.K. banking giant Royal Bank of Scotland and is close to buying a medium-sized company in the country, Chairman Warren Buffett said Sunday

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Billionaires Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger say the pain many financial institutions are feeling because of the credit crunch is well deserved. The chairman and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Sunday that the financial companies that engineered subprime mortgages and the investment funds backed by those mortgages don't deserve much sympathy as they record losses now.

Buffett said the current financial crisis is a byproduct of a system that encouraged executives to "paint pretty pictures."

Notes from Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting (May 3, 2008) courtesy of Peter Boodell

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This is the news conference held by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on Sunday, May 4, 2008, as live-blogged on CNBC.com's Warren Buffett Watch. 

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