Trump tariff drag on Warren Buffett’s business: Berkshire Hathaway profit halves after $3.76bn Kraft Heinz writedown; Q2 net slips to $12.37bn from $30.25bn YoY
Saturday, 2 August 2025 () Berkshire Hathaway's second-quarter profit plummeted 59% to $12.37 billion, impacted by a $3.76 billion writedown on its Kraft Heinz investment. Despite this setback, operating profit only marginally decreased to $11.16 billion, surpassing Wall Street expectations. While Buffett confirmed his eventual CEO departure and BNSF showed strong performance, the company's substantial cash reserves remain untouched due to high valuations.
In 1991, Warren Buffett (CEO of Berkshire Hathaway) got caught up in a scandal that nearly destroyed his career. Salomon Brothers (of which Buffett was a director and major shareholder) had broken U.S. securities laws around trading of Treasury Bonds, but hid their wrongdoing from the Federal...
Warren Buffett has just held the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting in Omaha, and in it he revealed that he's selling some of his largest stock holding! Has the Oracle of Omaha had..
Warren Buffett (CEO of Berkshire Hathaway) is the master of value investing during periods of high inflation. So now in 2022, with U.S. inflation sitting at 8.6% and the country on the verge of a..
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