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China’s BYD forecasts up to 91 percent profit rise for first nine months

Chinese automaker BYD Co Ltd , backed by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc , on Sunday predicted an up to 91-percent profit increase in the first nine months of the year, as government policies drive green car sales. The Shenzhen-based company forecast an 83 percent to 91 percent rise in net profit for the first nine months, between 3.6 billion yuan ($539.8 million) to 3.7 billion yuan, according to a stock exchange filing. For the first half of 2016, BYD reported 2.3 billion yuan in profit, a 384 percent increase…

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Growth snapshots ahead in world awash with cheap money

By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) – Bumper July jobs data from the United States have again begun to stoke expectations of a September rate hike from the Federal Reserve, just when other major central banks around the globe are unleashing ever-looser policy. New Zealand's central bank is also expected to join the easing brigade with a cut on Thursday. Slow growth and virtually non-existent euro zone inflation will also force the European Central Bank to extend and expand…

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Berkshire profit up 25 percent as insurance helps, BNSF weighs

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday said its second-quarter profit rose 25 percent, helped by improvement in insurance underwriting, investment gains and the purchase of Precision Castparts Corp, Warren Buffett's largest acquisition. But operating results fell short of analyst forecasts, as depressed oil prices and coal demand weighed on volume at the conglomerate's BNSF railroad unit, while units

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Auction for Warren Buffett charity lunch starts slow

The annual charity auction for a private lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett is underway. The top bid to dine with the chairman of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc was $200,100 at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) on Monday

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Exclusive: Warren Buffett, Quicken Loans founder in Yahoo bid – sources

While there is no certainty that the consortium will prevail in the auction, the interest of Buffett and Gilbert is a boost for the Sunnyvale, California-based company, which has been surpassed in recent years by…

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Wanted: Manufacturing whizzes to work on Tesla’s Model 3

By Alexandria Sage SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk gave a public shout-out to the sharpest minds in manufacturing this week, calling on them to come help Tesla Motors Inc build a million all-electric cars a year by 2020. Musk says he is “hell-bent” on making the Silicon Valley automotive upstart a manufacturing powerhouse, but his vision relies on finding veteran auto engineers to ramp up volume ten-fold in four …

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Berkshire operating profit falls short, book value rises

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday confirmed that its first-quarter profit rose 8 percent, while operating results fell short of analyst forecasts as falling oil prices and coal demand hurt its BNSF railroad unit. The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate, which has close to 90 operating units, also said its book value per share, measuring assets minus liabilities and Buffett's preferred gauge of

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German finmin criticizes Volkswagen management over bonuses: paper

Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has criticized the executive board of scandal-ridden carmaker Volkswagen for not waiving bonuses despite bringing the company to the brink of collapse. “I have no sympathy for managers who first drive a large blue chip-listed company into an existence-threatening crisis and then defend their own bonuses in a public debate,” Schaeuble told German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. “That shows that something is not working….

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Buffett defends Berkshire’s Coke stake, warns on BNSF

Warren Buffett on Saturday defended several of Berkshire Hathaway Inc's larger or struggling investments, including Coca-Cola and the BNSF railroad. Speaking to tens of thousands of shareholders at Berkshire's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger also touched on many other issues including the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the risks of derivatives, and big losses at…

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Buffett annual letter comes amid ‘conspicuous’ performance lag

Warren Buffett will release his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders after a year when its stock price lagged the broader market by the most since 2009, adding to years of underperformance. The price of a Berkshire Class A share fell 12.5 percent in 2015, compared with a 1.4 percent gain

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