Berkshire Hathaway's annual report attracts a great deal of attention primarily because it includes Warren Buffett's letter to shareholders. Diligent reporters and investors often read the annual report itself but it is not common for Berkshire's 10-K filing to attract ...
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, will host a fixed-income investor conference on March 30, 2011. Read this article for a brief description of the presentation and a link to the slides released by MidAmerican today in an ...
Warren Buffett is not a proponent of using the concept of "synergies" to justify acquisitions and generally encourages Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries to operate independently. Business unit managers, or "all stars" as Mr. Buffett referred to them in his biennial letter ...
Berkshire Hathaway posted sharply higher operating profits for the second quarter of 2010 thanks to strength in the insurance operations and major improvements in the company's diverse collection of economically sensitive subsidiaries. However, quarterly net earnings declined to $1.97 billion ...
Berkshire Hathaway reported strong results for the first quarter of 2010 with book value per share rising 5.8 percent to $89,374 per Class A share which represents a record high (all per share figures in this article will refer to ...
Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Green Conference, which took place last week, was designed to serve as a forum for discussion of a wide variety of environmental topics including the shift to cleaner power generation technologies such as wind and solar. David ...
David Sokol has been in the news many times over the past few months due to his increasing prominence within Berkshire Hathaway. Mr. Sokol is Chairman of MidAmerican Energy which is one of Berkshire's most important subsidiaries. In addition, he ...
David Sokol appeared on CNBC this morning and commented on a variety of topics. In addition to his responsibilities as Chairman of MidAmerican Energy, Mr. Sokol recently assumed the Chairman and CEO positions at NetJets. It appears that Mr. Sokol ...
The problem of matching the production of renewable energy with electricity demand has been a major challenge standing in the way of wider adoption of solar and wind powered plants. While electricity demand can be forecast with a great deal ...
MidAmerican's Chairman David Sokol was interviewed by Bloomberg today in Washington. Mr. Sokol has been advocating for the elimination of the concept of trading carbon credits which is a central feature of the "cap and trade" system that is currently ...
It appears that MidAmerican Energy's Chairman David Sokol is taking on a higher media profile in recent weeks. MidAmerican is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and David Sokol has often been mentioned as a front runner to take on the ...
Most of the excitement related to BYD has centered on the remarkable advances the company has made in applying its proprietary battery technology to electric vehicles such as the e6 model which I wrote about earlier this month. BYD's innovations ...