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24 Jan 2024 Volkswagen just lost its crown as China’s biggest carmaker to Warren Buffett–backed BYD - Portfolio

“I have never helped do anything at Berkshire that was as good as BYD,” Buffett’s late business partner Charlie Munger, who helped close the 2008 deal, said last February.
22 Jan 2024 Jim Haslam on selling Pilot: 'Things change, and you have to get used to change' - Portfolio

The sale announcement came days later, and during negotiations Jim Haslam had a final conversation with Buffett "that eventually ended up in everything working out," Jim Haslam said. "It was a satisfactory conversation."
22 Jan 2024 Weitz Investment Management: "Avoid Crazy" and Stay Focused - Portfolio

The core of our investment philosophy is that over long periods of time, stock prices are driven by the values of their underlying businesses, and business value is a function of the cash flows, or “owners' earnings,” that will be generated over (many) future years. Warren Buffett made this point (again) in the 2022 Berkshire Annual Report: “Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.”
17 Jan 2024 Berkshire adds to Liberty Media SiriusXM stake - Portfolio

LSXMA increased by 1.2 million shares to a total of 22.5 million shares.

LSXMK increased by 1.6 million shares to a total of 46.5 million shares.
17 Jan 2024 Warren Buffett's company now fully owns a truck-stop chain that was the 5th-largest private company in America - Portfolio

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway acquired the final 20% of Pilot Travel Centers on Tuesday.
17 Jan 2024 Apple overtakes Samsung as top seller of smartphones

Apple ended Samsung Electronics' 12-year run as the largest seller of smartphones in the world, after commanding a 20% share of the market in 2023, according to data from International Data Corp.
11 Jan 2024 Howard Marks Memo: Easy Money - Portfolio

As you no doubt know, Charlie Munger passed away on November 28 at the age of 99. I want to pay a small tribute to Charlie’s life and wisdom by sharing something he wrote me in 2001: “Maybe we have a new version of Lord Acton’s law: easy money corrupts, and really easy money corrupts absolutely.”