berkshire hathaway inc

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has completed the purchase of Berkshire chairman Warren Buffett's hometown newspaper, the Omaha World-Herald.

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Crosshair Exploration & Mining (AMEX: CXZ) 27.5% LOWER; trading lower with the entire uranium group today. The Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE: LZ) 27.4% HIGHER; Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

(NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) announced an agreement to acquire Lubrizol for $135 per share in an all-cash transaction, or approximately $9.7 billion, including approximately $0.7 billion in net debt.

Uranium Resources (Nasdaq: URRE) 27.3% LOWER; see ULU above. Ur-Energy Inc.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has sold 560,000 more shares of credit ratings agency Moody's Corp., but Warren Buffett's company continues to control about 12 percent of Moody's stock.

May 3 -- Tom Russo, partner at law firm Gardner Russo & Gardner, talks with Bloomberg's Paul Gordon about Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s annual meeting of shareholders.

Warren Buffett on Saturday launched a forceful defense of Berkshire Hathaway Inc's $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs Group Inc and the investment bank's embattled chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein.

Investor Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders Saturday morning. The Berkshire chairman and chief executive spent a large part of the letter explaining the guiding principles he and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger follow in running the Omaha-based company.

The full letter is available online at .

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. delivered a fourth-quarter profit more than 25 times higher than the previous year thanks largely to an unrealized $1 billion gain on derivative contracts and investments.

Swiss Reinsurance Co. said Monday it transferred part of its U.S. life insurance business to U.S. investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Warren Buffett's company says its third-quarter profit tripled as the improving economy and stock market boosted the value of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s derivative contracts.