40 h. ago Buffett will remain chairman at Berkshire Hathaway when Abel takes over as CEO in 2026

Billionaire Warren Buffett will remain chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after Greg Abel takes over as CEO at the start of the new year

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52 h. ago Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are two extraordinary men. One is modest and wise, the other vulgar and venal. How sad it's the latter who now defines America, writes DOMINIC LAWSON

At the age of 94, and after 60 years at the helm of his company Berkshire Hathaway, on Saturday Warren Buffett told the annual public meeting of his adoring shareholders that he was leaving them.

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56 h. ago Warren Buffett reveals his thoughts on tariffs at Berkshire Hathaway conference

Speaking about the negative impact of tariffs on Saturday, the 94-year-old CEO of Berkshire Hathaway did not explicitly name Donald Trump

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59 h. ago Warren Buffett is stepping down – but his advice is still timeless

The American investor’s rules for life have earned him billions of dollars and a loyal tribe of admirers

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61 h. ago Business figures pay tribute to Warren Buffett after retirement announcement

JP Morgan boss says Buffett represents ‘everything good about American capitalism and America itself’Leading figures in the business world have lined up to pay tribute to Warren Buffett after the 94-year-old announced he would retire as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway and hand over the reins to his vice-chair, Greg Abel.Buffett shocked an arena full of shareholders over the weekend when he announced he would step down as the CEO and chair of the trillion-dollar conglomerate at the end of this year. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Warren Buffett’s best and worst investments in his 60 years as Berkshire Hathaway CEO

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he wants to step down as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year

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3 d. ago Who is Greg Abel, the executive picked to be successor to Warren Buffett?

When Warren Buffett announced at his annual shareholder meeting that he is stepping down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year, he elevated a 62-year-old Canadian executive named Greg Abel who has long been one of his top lieutenants

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3 d. ago Warren Buffett announces retirement from leading Berkshire Hathaway

Billionaire shocked audience of investors with disclosure and said his vice-chair, Greg Abel, should take overWarren Buffett, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, has announced his intention to retire at the end of this year. He is 94 years old.Buffett, the fifth-richest person in the world, shocked an arena full of shareholders on Saturday when he announced that he would step down as the CEO and chair of the trillion-dollar conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway at the end of 2025. He will recommend to the 11-person board that his vice-chair, Greg Abel, who currently oversees most of the company’s investments, be named as his successor, Buffett said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Warren Buffett stuns crowd as he steps down from Berkshire Hathaway... and issues stark warning to Trump

The 94-year-old had been speaking at the company's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, when he made the announcement.

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3 d. ago Warren Buffett stuns crowd as he steps down from Berkshire... and issues stark warning to Trump

The 94-year-old had been speaking at the company's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, when he made the announcement.

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3 d. ago Warren Buffett shocks investors by announcing retirement from Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year

The 94-year-old made the announcement at the company’s 2025 investor conference on Saturday

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3 d. ago Investor Warren Buffett says he will retire at the end of the year from Berkshire Hathaway

The 94-year-old made the announcement at the company’s 2025 investor conference on Saturday

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3 d. ago Who is Greg Abel, successor to Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway’s ‘CEO in waiting’?

Billionaire investor Buffett – who will turn 95 in August – announced Abel as the man to take over his investing juggernaut back in May 2021

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3 d. ago Warren Buffett to step down from Berkshire Hathaway after six decades

The ‘Oracle of Omaha’ announces plans to retire from his sprawling conglomerate at annual meeting

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3 d. ago Throngs of admirers fill an arena to get Warren Buffett's take on tariffs and Berkshire Hathaway

Thousands of Berkshire Hathaway investors have streamed into an arena hoping to hear Warren Buffett address what he thinks of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and explain why he is sitting on $347.7 billion cash

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3 d. ago How relegated clubs bouncing back to the Premier League makes the rich richer | Philippe Auclair

Parachute payments system benefits the elite when teams such as Burnley and Leeds rejoin top tier within three yearsFor the second year running, all three clubs promoted from the Championship to the Premier League will make an immediate return to the second tier. It would be tempting to say this is the natural order of things given the financial challenges faced by clubs suddenly thrown into the world’s richest domestic football competition.Even when they do spend huge amounts in order to give themselves a chance of survival, as Southampton and Ipswich did, respectively spending £62.8m and £106m net in the summer of 2024, the gap appears too big to close. Yet what has happened to them used to be an exceptional occurrence.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN Elon Musk is a hypocrite as he does the one thing he labelled 'morally wrong'

The world's richest man has quietly quit his role at the Department of Government Efficiency, with the chief of staff saying Elon Musk has become a 'ghost in Washington'

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4 d. ago The Guide #189: Your new celebrity best friend? It’s just a deepfake trying to con you

In this week’s newsletter: AI impostors are charming fans out of fortunes – here’s how TV’s Scam Interceptors catch the criminalsThis week’s newsletter is written by Nick Stapleton and Mark Lewis, presenter and producer respectively on BBC’s Scam Interceptors. If you haven’t seen Scam Interceptors, it’s a very entertaining factual series in which Nick and his team of ethical hackers attempt to disrupt scamming attacks on the public as they happen. In the show’s fourth series, now airing daytime on BBC One, one of the scams disrupted involves a worryingly convincing Reese Witherspoon deepfake. So we thought we’d ask Nick and Mark to tell us all about their brush with (fake) celebrity, and share some pointers on how to spot a deepfake before it convinces you to empty your bank account. – GwilymEver wanted to have a deep and meaningful with your favourite Hollywood celebrity? Go on. Who is it? Pedro Pascal? Aubrey Plaza? Jeff Bridges (Nick). Beyoncé (Mark). Well, we’ve got great news f...

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5 d. ago Who is the richest F1 driver in the world 2025? Top 15 richest Formula 1 stars ever

Here are the 15 Formula 1 drivers with the biggest net worth in the world, including F1 icons Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.

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5 d. ago Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House

From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge roleOne hundred days after Elon Musk entered the White House as Donald Trump’s senior adviser and the de facto leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Tesla CEO has left little of the federal government unscathed. Over the course of just a few months, he has gutted agencies and public services that took decades to build while accumulating immense political power.Musk’s role in the Trump administration is without modern precedent. Never before has the world’s richest person been deputized by the US president to cull the very agencies that oversee his businesses. Musk’s attempts to radically dismantle government bureaus have won him sprawling influence. His team has embedded its members in key roles across federal agencies, gained access to personal data on millions of Americans and fired tens of thousands of workers. SpaceX, where he is CEO,...

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