warren buffett is excited.nd why honeywell wants to team up with united technologies. made me want to go back to alcoa because they want to do acquisitions. when they break into two separate companies the engineered portion of the business will have $6 billionle in aerospace orders that dove taille with the parts. while he disagrees with the style of opportunities his brazilian partners seek going after les productive enterprises making them better i feel good about kraft hines. another year of investable take aways. what more could you possibly ask for? stick with cramer. by debating our research to find the best investments. by looking at global and local insights to benefit from different points of view. and by consistently breaking apart risk to focus on long-term value. we actively manage with expertise and conviction. so you can invest with more certainty. mfs. that's the power of active management. >>> 1.3 billion? wow. >>> i like to say there is always a bull market somewhere. i promise to find it for y

warren buffett? it is paramount, given his age.he succession planning initiative i do not excite to hear anything new in the annual letter. there was coverage to some extent in the 50th anniversary shareholder letter that came out last year. i do not ask for you to hear anything new. wasen buffett has said he to run berkshire hathaway for the next decade, and we hope that is the case. scarlet: thank you. still ahead, insight on today's options activity. a quick check on how the various sectors have performed this week. materials, consumer discretionary, industrials, and health care are the top performers. ♪ julie: you are watching bloomberg markets. let's get to today's options inside. capital is and recon joining me now. he can do some of the talking as well. we are looking at the markets where the fix has come in substantially. some strategists are looking at the volatility and saying things are: down, and maybe they will stay home for a little bit. never -- the vix has never closed below 19. it is significant higher from last ye

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. >>> warren buffett's berkshire hathaway's profits rising by more than 30%. on the programming note, warren buffett joining the "squawk box" team live for three hours starting at 6:00 a.m. today. he'll be answering your questions. submit using the #askwarren. make sure you don't miss that. get involved. ask him some questions. >>> i just want to bring you a head line that just happened moments ago, the people's bank of china cutting its reserve by 0.5%. this is easing effort. china's way of lowering interest rates, responding to what has been happening in the chinese market and chinese economy. pay lot of people expected china to start doing this, remember, they're just coming aue ing off meeting which they hosted themselves, they need to look like they're on top of it.

warren buffett sit downs with becky quick on "squawk box" this morning.they discussed was ibm. berkshire hathaway. take a listen. >> i don't think so. but it could be. i mean, we owned stock we lost money and sometimes when stocks go down, we're wrong and we sell them. sometimes we think we're right and we buy more. a stock going down is a good thing unless the company itself is losing value. and sometimes that's the case and sometimes it isn't. i don't think it is the case with ibm, but i could be wrong. >> berkshire's annual report showed a $2.6 billion loss on ibm since the end of 2015. let's bring in fast money trader jon najarian and robert miles. welcome to you both on "power lunch." i'll start off with you, dr. j. you're a quick trader. maybe not the long-term time horizon that warren buffett has, but you say he should get rid of these losses. >> yeah, mel. when you're an investor, of course, you can do what warren buffett's done, which is fabulous. his numbers are without question some of the best ever in our industry. however, when you shorten th

and warren buffett saying the future of america is great.et you hear it straight from the oracle. and it's leap day. kids waiting for a birthday. you do stay young. it's monday, february 29th and "squawk box" begins now ♪ >>> good morning. welcome to "worldwide exchange" right here on cnbc. i'm andrew ross sorkin with joe kernin. becky quick is with warren buffett. >> take a look at u.s. equity futures at this hour. dow jones looks like it will open off 90 points. nasdaq looking to open down as well, down 45. s&p 500 looking down 12 points off. overseas in asia, japan's nikkei fell from 1%. hang seng

plus, warren buffett says the economy is way better than what the politicians say. charlie gasparino on that. jeff flock telling you why you're playing high prices for pork. we're less than an hour to the closing bell, let's start the "countdown. ". ♪ ♪ ♪ liz: and here we go. 58 minutes left for the last trading session of the month, and at this hour we can tell you that the dow and the s&p even with the red on the screen with the nasdaq down about 18 points. maybe on track to close out february to the upside. but you look at the nasdaq, it's struggling as the index is set to close lower for the third straight month in a row. that hasn't happened since september of 2011. interestingly enough, two of the nasdaq's biggest winners in 2015, netflix which rallied 134% in 2015 and amazon which jumped 117 president, are both down more than 7% this year. it's a mixed picture right now today for those names. but let's take a look at oil because that seems to be always the driver here. oil settled lower for the fourth straight month in a row, but prices jumped 3% after china

maybe the message of warren buffett is being lost a little bit. we're not seeing the bounce in ibm that you normally would on a day where -- he comes out and defends the stock. so vigorously. so he has got a strategy. >> i don't know if it was so vigorous. >> he did not come out and defend the stock so vigorously. >> it could be a mistake. that's not vigorous. >> exactly. >> well, the reality is, okay, do you buy more here? he was asked that question. okay? the reality is, no. you don't buy more here. you don't double down on the strategy. that's the differentiation. >> if you're not buying, you should be selling. it's that simple. >> okay. all right. coming up, will slow and steady win the race? with the market on a wild ride already this year. dividend stocks beating the s&p. we'll give the names that tell you to wait in a low-rate world. >>> plus, one area of the market is up 31% this month alone. we'll tell you what it is, and how to play it, next. welcome to opportunity's knocking, where self-proclaimed financial superstars pitch you investme

one of the chief lieutenants of warren buffett got a big pay raise this year. of berkshire hathaway energy received a pay package valued at almost $41 million. that's a 48% increase. the big reason is a $28 million incentive plan award. that is your business flash. let's head over to mark, who has the latest from london. mark: check it out, this is the function that shows you how the main boards are faring in europe. the reserve ratio cut today by china, giving a lift to shares that were down about 1%. one third lower on the euro stoxx 50. a mixed session today, investors still disappointed that the g 20 finance ministers did not do more. thans more rhetoric action. this is the month to date performance. these are the main industries. as you can see, these three industries roads by february after three months of decline. interesting since basic lowurces fell to a 2.5 year on the 20th of january. the industry is up by over 20%. really quickly, you know how well gold has done. a lovely chart taken from one of our bloomberg stories, gold the u.s. treasury bond ind

warren buffett offering his take on the markets.arlier on "squak" the billionaire investor said he bought more stocks since the end of the year and is more aggressive when they're going down. buffet also optimistic about long-term prospects for the market. take a listen. >> i never know what markets are going to do. there's never been a time in my life -- i know what markets will do over a long period of time, they'll go up. in terms of what will happen in a day, week, month or a year, i never felt that i knew it. i never felt it was important. i will say that in 10, 20, 30 years i think stocks will be a lot higher than they are now. >> classic buffett you could argue today, jim. >> one of the things i liked about it, he was talking about some concept we talk about here, the political gloom has created opportunity. people are way too negative. a lot of what he says is so long-term oriented m of the short-term people who trade overnight say, wow, i guess i can buy stocks off it. he's not saying that. he's saying over time, progress i

and i think now for me to say something nice with warren buffett.in his letter 2% growth in the u.s. is not so bad. that effectively gets you to 34% growth in gdp over the course of a generation. what we're seeing now is a lot of people looked at 2% annual growth and said we will pay anything for growth at any cost, which led to very inflated valuations in the private market. now i think we are seeing kind of a normalizing or sanity check where people say, these high-growth businesses that inevitably we pay up for and miss our expectations or don't have the profitability to them, we're less excited. and this kind of spotify desperation convertible note round, which you do when you're a small company and don't know what your value is because the public market doesn't want the company now. >> this looks like a good sign we're getting a soft landing in this tech cycle to me. when you look at what we went through a few weeks ago, with linkedin, we've had a number of other small cap techs down big. you're getting more of this talk down. this isn't like a

warren buffett telling cnbc today he's buying this mark.p next the traders tell you the four names they would buy out of buffet's portfolio right after the break. plus, we'll tell you why one obscure jewelry company is catching the eye of investors. stay tuned. you're watching "fast money" on cnbc, first in business worldwide. i appreciate you coming by. absolutely. the market's been pretty volatile lately. there is a lot at stake here, you know? look jim, we've been planning for this for a long time. and we'll keep evolving things. so don't worry. knowing what's on your mind and acting accordingly. multiplied by 13,000 financial advisors. it's a big deal. and it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. >>> we're almost always a buyer of stocks and we're a more aggressive and i feel much better when they are going down, but it's hard to think of very many months when we haven't been a net buyer of stocks. >> welcome back to "fast." warren buffett on "squawk box" talking about how berkshire has been an aggressive buyer of stocks and some

if warren buffett is able to reinvest still high rates of return, that is fine. problem we have got at the moment is you have got company in the cyclical industries, in the commodities and energy that have been reinvesting at rates which they should not have been reinvesting that in joel: i would say one more thing about warren buffett. he owns a large percentage of his company. if he makes a decision that is maximizing the value for himself, all his shareholders are coming along free for the ride. can you imagine? it costs almost nothing to have mr. buffett managing your money for you. even believe it myself. francine: what you're pointed to end this is a theme that i have heard when you look at economics, maybe we are pricing things run. maybe the way we look at share prices is wrong. that? we need to address is it business school? >> i teach at five graduate schools around the world and i teach on eva. economic value added. if you take a look at a perfect score of 110. dividend and earnings-per-share changes, the cash flow, the 100.rs are 2, 56, 8 out of 79.is

liz: did warren buffett just give you a map and a flashlight to the best investment for the near future? buy like buffett or are you already too late? yesterday in a 13 f filing it was revealed the oracle of omaha top holdings are what you see on the screen. not to mention, so we will, is 27 million shares in kinder morgan, which, of course, is a big oil concern. it's up right now, it's a limited. so how are the experts playing that? it's jumping 10%. and this is a stock down about 60%, 65% all last year? get right to the floor show. traders at the new york stock exchange, the cme group and the nymex. the massive limited partnership yielded such a good yield. john corpina, buffett gave an indication to the entire market, i'm in on this one, interesting play, isn't it? >> very interesting play, stepping outside of his scope a little bit but clearly when mr. buffett does something and it's publicly released, people want to jump on board and get behind it whether it's that particular stock or in that sector. he's been right for a very long time. foolish not to follow that trade there. liz:

. >> and warren buffett is upping the an >> tomorrow is a big day to the race for the white house, super tuesday has voters going to the polls or caucuses in telephone states. donald trump and hillary clinton are leading in a majority of the contested states. 9 tuesday vote could be a knock out blow to texas senator ted cruz running third in the republican race. >> if we nominate donald trump in all likelihood hillary clinton wins and if that happens we lose this country. >> senator bernie sanders is fighting, as well, polls showing he is trailing hillary clinton in massachusetts a state he needs to do well given he is from vermont. >> warren buffett is upping the ante for employees offering $1 million a year for life for any employee who fills out a perfect bracket through the sweet 16. all employees of the financial firm or subsidiaries are eligible and he made a similar offer two years ago $1 billion to anyone who can pick a perfect bracket. no one did. >> still ahead, could you see wet weather on the horizon? >> hard to believe but meteorologist mike nicco is ahead with changes. >> b

warren buffett thinks he agrees with his tax policy and warren buffett is no conservative.ske what jeff said in his endorsement. i'm fascinated how companies adapt to the cacophony we are in right now politically. do you just freeze? lt freezing? beth: i think he just keeps going. you have to focus on your customers, you have to know where your markets are going. you have to listen, but you can't let it stop you. you have to keep doing what you do. built things, invest in things. the point is that we have just had an irish election. tom: some of that election. jon: you have multitier record low yields. you have had a fiscal adjustment, a really big squeeze . you don't have an outright majority. we sit here and say the s&p 500 has done ok. u.s. gdp has been revised tire. but what is unemployment doing? what is happening with wages? a lot of people are not feeling the recovery. stephanie: do we blame it on central banks? central banks have the markets feeling like everything is ok. we thought greece was on the brink of disaster. suddenly, bondholders think we are ok. if you w

that's what warren buffett said.abies born in america today, they're the luckiest crop in history. berkshire hathaway reported a 21% in net profit tours $21 billion in a record year for the firm. also if you look at research for 13-d which i was reading over the weekend, he also said that inflation is at 100% certainty. our colleagues state side will be speaking to the oracle of omaha himself. becky quick will be live with mr. buffett for three hours. submit your questions via twitter, facebook or instagram using the #askwarren. that's it for the show. we'll see you tomorrow on another "street signs." have a lovely day. earth hour is about inspiring climate action celebrating a global movement and impact ♪ join us at earthhour.org 19th march at 8:30pm ♪ >>> good morning. breaking overnight -- a selloff in asia. chinese shares plunging to 15-month lows. >>> and good as gold. the precious metal is on track for its best month in four years as investors seek a safe haven. >>> and hollywood's big night. "spotlight" wins b

. >> meanwhile, billionaire warren buffett, hope you saw it this morning, told us that he's still a net buyer of stocks even though there are signs the economy is wavering right now. we'll talk about whether you should be following warren buffett's investing advice. >>> and saying privacy has its limits and security should trump privacy in matters of homeland security and michael chertoff will tell us where he stands in just a few minutes. we start with mr. buffett's joining "squawk box." here's what he said to say about where he thinks stocks are headed in the long term. i think you can guess. >> there's never been a time in my life -- i know what markets are going to do over a long period of time, they are going to go up. in terms of what's going to happen in a day or week or month or year even, i never have felt i knew it and never felt it was important. i will say in 10 or 20 or 30 years, i think stocks will be a lot higher than they are now. >> joining us to talk about this among other things, mark matson and keith bliss from cutoton an rick santelli. >> he makes a case for buy and

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in all my interviews, whether with warren buffett and a lot of other ceos, 60, 70 ceos of the fortune 500 i've been talking to, the one thing when i say, what makes them an exceptional leader, vision. warren buffett sums it up, you have to have a clear vision of where you're going so you can convince people to follow you. it has to be an inspiring and appealing vision, not something that you make up as you go along. on that point, mary barra of general motors said, it's not enough just to have the vision. if you haven't won the hearts and minds of people, if they're not with you, you won't go too far. >> right. does that go to the core qualities that you've found and were there any common core qualities? vision is one, obviously. but you have to have i would assume passion? >> passion, trust, integrity, credibility, some humility. i mean, trust is the one that comes up all the time. when i was talking to the ceo of wells fargo, john stump, a down to earth guy, he said it best. the dna of leadership is trust, whether it's in family relationships, in business, in government. you can be

juice what's warren buffett spending on now? how about three full hours live on "squawk box" telling you what on "squawk box" telling you what he's telling berkshire man 1: i came as fast as i could. what's up? man 2: this isn't public yet. man 1: what isn't? man 2: we've been attacked. man 1: the network? man 2: shhhh. man 1: when did this happen? man 2: over the last six months. man 1: how did we miss it? man 2: we caught it, just not in time. man 1: who? how? man 2: not sure, probably off-shore, foreign, pros. man 1: what did they get? man 2: what didn't they get. man 1: i need to call mike... man 2: don't use your phone. it's not just security, it's defense. bae systems. . >>> welcome back to "fast money." oil continues to drive stocks. earlier today in a rare and exclusive interview i spoke with former opec president who now serves as nigeria's oil minister. i began by asking him if he believes in opec production freeze and can in fact be achieved. here's what he said. >> when attempts at production freeze we're working the

warren buffett's take on the economic pessimism dominating the u.s. presidential campaign.lcome to "countdown." prime minister any. anna: i am anna edwards. does this translate to a weakness in the european opening mark critz? -- opening markets? dow -- paris is of 1%. 8/10 we have had the best month since october 2008. money is coming out of equities and going into the yen. leonardo dicaprio has won his oscar. what more could you want in a monday morning? anna: let's talk about some breaking news out of the german economy. sales are up 0.7% in germany, ahead of the estimate which was for 3.0% gains. share number was negative. there are some complexities in the details. they are looking to china, worrying about the german export engine. ee just howo s strong it can be. manus: on friday we have the negative inflation data readings. we will get the whole of europe today. that german data is incredibly important. you up to speed. it is monday morning. we have oil, gold, and a little bit of sterling for you. 1/2 of 1%. bullish bets and speculators raising their positions to the

in warren buffett's case, it has outperformed the market massively for 15 years.thatademic take it back to the 1970's. in general, it is a wonderful strategy. emily: take apple. it is not clear-cut. you've got people coming back. you've got tiger global doubling down. book thatote a tackles 15 of our favorite managers. we take you through this process. it helps to have some domain expertise. to be able to know, for example, you can follow a manager that is high-frequency. you can't follow a manager that does arbitrage trades or derivatives. you want the stock pickers. those that don't have a lot of turnover. we think it is easy to pick out some of the great ones, the buffets of the world, even einhorn, following all of those guys. they beat the market by quite a bit. emily: so what would you do with apple? apply theay you theory, you are not looking at any individual stock. you are betting on the actual manager. for example, you want to say, decide.g to let warren i'm going to let him go anywhere. his top 10, whatever they are, i'm going to invest. some managers w

warren buffett added kmi.t is a 4.5%, but candor morgan had bear of a time, last year, to say the least. d.ulson got out of gl he reduced his position. it is still the second-biggest of any hedge fund, meanwhile the spider gold trust is up 50% and it really rallied more like 37% from the end of last year. the s&p activist want -- you can see it down -- activist fund, you can see it down 16% this year. it goes to show you what these investors are making or losing so far in 2016. now i'm going to go to vonnie quinn for bloomberg's first word news. vonnie: thank you. tim cook is accusing the u.s. government of overreach that will set a dangerous precedent. he is rejecting a court order that would help unlock an iphone use by one of issues in the sand and you know terrorist attacks -- san bernardino terrorist attacks. he says it would undermine the very freedoms the government is meant to protect. u.s. government might be receiving far less data from privacy advocates have long suspected. this is according to "the

tracy: warren buffett is writing his annual letter to shareholders.ll he say about berkshire hathaway's poor performance last year? carol: marco rubio at a rally in oklahoma city. this is bloomberg markets. ♪ carol: welcome back to bloomberg markets. tracy: we want to turn to politics for a moment because chris christie is throwing his support behind donald trump. making the surprise endorsement at a trump event in fort worth, texas this afternoon, calling him the best choice. >> america must have a strong leader again that can restore american jobs and restore american confidence and donald trump is just the man to do it. carol: joining us from charleston, john heilemann. are you surprised by this endorsement? >> i think the world is surprised by this endorsement. it did not leak, no one expected it, no one wrote about it. chris christie took his share of shots at donald trump while he was in the race. you kind of understand the logic in the sense that christie really has zero respect for marco rubio, took marco rubio on hard. christie's view has alw

charlie: also for warren buffett. a book that influenced him.ia: it is that thin line because they can be used for good and for ill. they can be used to to get your trust and that can be wonderful for someone like warren buffett and you can also exploit it. charlie: what about bernie madoff? maria: he was brilliant using the tools of a con artist. he made you beg for investing. con artist don't take things from you. you give them to you. charlie: you begged him to -- maria: he would say no. you would have to beg him and finally he would say, ok. the people who were getting those returns did not see them as too good to be true. they thought they had very good returns. they were savvy investors. charlie: you suggest they are underreported. maria: people don't want to admit to being victims. there is a huge reputation. you don't want someone to think of you as a sucker. it's a negative word. sucker. you don't want to be a sucker. charlie: when you went to these men and women -- maria: yes, women. i feel like the famous ones are men. women are bette

warren buffett turns to carol loomis for help in editing the report.llaboration going on for decades. i think the fact that some eight people want to review letter and enjoy the writing is a testament -- annie: on that note we have article on the bloomberg by one of your colleagues and which buffett talks about different things, geico and baseball and country music, so it's a real down-home sort of popular investor letter, isn't it? guest: it sure is. it sure is. don'ts wehat are thedon' should take from the letter? we will have to see. i could see him giving advice about how to think of moves in the stock market. in the past he has said, do not worry about daily fluctuations. if you do not like to think about stock moves on saturday and sunday, do not worry about it monday and friday. thank you so much for that. it will be online, by the way. the european close is next on "bloomberg markets." ♪ vonnie: it is 11 a.m. in new york. i'm vonnie quinn in for betty liu. live from london, i mark barton. this is "the european close." vonnie: we are going to ta

what is $1.25 billion for warren buffett? he gives $3 billion a year to the gates foundation, on whose board he serves. i've had rich people--very, very rich people--tell me, "we know how to make a lot of money. we do not have a clue what to do with it, and that includes us." so if we want to be very practical about it and speed things up, if we know very rich people--and silicon valley has a few of them--recognize the following: that a lot of them could care less. they want to make more money, or they're into their little gadgets. it's amazing how much brain power is being poured on technical changes and innovations of minimal significance. just look at th apps laly. i me, they're embarssing as a cultu. [lahter] people can find ways to save millions of lives and not make anywhere near the amount of money that some little quigley app for some idiotic whim that is promoted, ok? but there are people in silicon valley--you should try to bring them together for a dinner. i would be glad to attend--who i can show can leave a legac

you're close to warren buffett.tionally particularly. identify traveled with him to china and korea and to india and you've never seen crowds that swarm him there. >> like a rock star. >> oh, my gosh to the point they had to get security because they were worried about him getting crushed. >> nehe was insistent on doing this in mandarin. we're working those things out. again this, is kind of new ground for all of us. then we decided in europe we would just leave it in english. in india as well. i think you're right. but we really don't know. the stream itself will be completely -- the meeting is unimpeded. >> will it be like a cam during oktoberfest you have this wide view of seeing people moving around. what will we see. >> they record it now. basically we're taking their broadcast of it. >> you'll have about four and a half hours of warren buffett and charlie taking questions. what you'll see the two of them answering and responding. >> then we'll have a halftime show because there's the lunch break. we're talking

upgrade to overweight from morgan stanley, a deal to buy health care analytics, so warren buffett may appear to be right. taken a huge stake in ibm. coming up, taking it to the floor, the famed floor show, traders at the new york stock exchange and the cme whether we hit a short-term bottom. right now the dow is down 11 points. "countdown" is just getting started. so glad you're here! this just got interesting. why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas for pulmonary hypertension, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have

warren buffett is third with 59.6 billion. >>> a new revelation in the zika virus. the virus under news, award-winning coverage of lynchburg, danville, bedford, roanoke, and the new river valley. >>> the cdc is expected to response to an alarming new case in the outbreak of the zika virus. health officials now report the virus has spread from person to person bisexual transmission, not by mosquito. it happened in texas. elizabeth hur has the latest. >> reporter: a disturbing development out of dallas in the battle against the zika virus. >> it wasn't spread by mosquito. it was spread through sectional transmission. an individual went abroad and acquired the virus and came home and infected their partner. >> reporter: the virus transmitting through sex is rare, but not unheard of here in the u.s. turns out back in 2008 a traveler infected with the zika virus returned home to colorado and his wife later tested positive for the virus. still, officials say this is the first case of sectional transmission in the current outbreak. they also call the latest case out of dal

bns fis owned by warren buffett's berkshire hathaway. the investment is increasing. >>> amazon got one person to thinking how much would it cost amazon.com? the answer, about $13 billion. . aims calculated the average price of the item to be $26. fictional economics. removed from real economics. >>> 15 to 35 miles per hour winds in the foothills, not windy around here. we are in the teens. >>> looking ahead today plenty of sun with temperatures in the 30s this morning, 40s and 50s this afternoon. 30s in the mountains and foothills. for the evening temperatures in the 20s and 30s. northeastern colorado again i- 76 and i-70 up into the 30s, 40s and 50s during the course of the day. saturday, this is no joke. low six tis possible when the puck drops at 6:00 outdoors at coors field. probably be warmer there than it is at pepsi center most nightss. >>> marty traveling through glenwood canyon i-70 should get a lot easier today. crews have been working for clear away a rock slide that left boulders the size of cars on the road. daytime closures

candidates across the preliminary spectrum about closing the carried interest loophole which allows warren buffettplay olower tax rate than his secretaries. one of the reasons it has disappeared from their website. >> carrie levine what's the difference between personal money that i go home and check my personal checking account balance and write a check to my favorite candidate and firm money, interested in giving from one campaign to another? is there a difference? >> often, companies have more money. >> i'm going to stipulate that acme has far more than i do. go ahead. >> individuals give to campaigns like many people do, that's one way to do it and then there's political action committees which are controlled by a company or a firm and which also give contributions. so moist of the time when you talk about lobbyist bund lers supporting a campaign or people like wayne berman they are technically acting in an individual capacity. so wayne berman would say probably he is not doing had as official blackstone business, he's doing i.t. as an individual. >> but aside from being a finance chairman for

stuart: warren buffett has bought a stake in a pipeline operator. that would weekend the morgan also added to his stake. explain why he's biting his stake on the pipeline company. jo: he didn't say specifically that we did the shares to what appeared 65% down all of 2015. this is a buying opportunity for berkshire hathaway. stuart: it is a bargain. jo: you have to think about how berkshire hathaway how berkshire hathaway invents long-term investments. this is an oil pipeline operator. this is potentially good investment in the long-term because oil pipeline last a long time. the disclosure was the first time he disclosed it. 26.5 million shares. >> the big takeaways we don't know if those warren buffett who did this or another investment manager. it was a smaller position. stuart: warren buffett proposed keystone pipeline because he wanted oil to be carried on his railroad tracks in the not in a new pipeline. now he is buying into a pipeline company because it's depressed. why are you laughing? jo: we don't know if it's going to be part of it. it is

billion by close of trading yesterday. [ indiscernible ] ortega of spain is number two followed by warren buffett in third, microsoft founder bill gates remains the world's richest person with a net worth of $78.7 billion. >>> we will be right back after wall street, the market is lowe's presents: how to put your foot in your mouth. man, wish my yard looked like yours. hey, the grass is always greener on the other side of the... sorry. sta-green fertilizer, guys, when you order now you get a free pizza after super bowl 50! that's a great idea. ever notice how people always show up when you have free pizza? free pizza? hello? we get it after the super bowl. oh... i'll come back. order now through super bowl sunday at papajohns.com and get a free pizza starting the monday after super bowl. use promo code superbowl50. better ingredients. better pizza. better football.

had he put it in an index fund, he would be as rich as warren buffett. it's part of the fraud. he's telling people he's this great business man, successful in business and will do the same for america, i hope not. he took four companies into bankruptcy. we had calls all over the place, bankers calling us, others saying all kinds of insight into donald trump and one is when he took one of his companies bankrupt, they put him on an allowance, so it's part of what con artists do. they come to you and try to help you make you believe they're something they're not. it's how he get people into trump university and they realized it was a con and they lost their money. we're not going let that happen as a country. >> could you not have taken that approach three or four months ago? >> i always hoped that voters would see this for what it is. obviously, we live in a different dynamic today and it's gone too far. if we're going to save the republican party from being taken over by a con artist, we're going to have to start making a case more aggressively and i'm more than happen p pi to d

richer than warren buffett. it's part of the fraud he perpetuates. four companies into total bankruptcy. this is a guy who had his creditors put him on an allowance. he had calls all over the place in the last 48 hours. bankers calling us. one of them when he took one of his companies bankrupt, they put donald trump on an allowance. it's part of what con artists do. they come to you and help you believe that they're something that they're not. that's how he got people into trump university and they realized it was a con. and they lost their money. we're not going to let that happen to the country. >> senator, could you not have taken that aggressive approach three or four months ago? >> look, i hoped that voters would see this as the way it is. obviously, we live in a different dynamic than before. if we're going to save this society from being taken over by a conarti artist, we have to bee aggressive. >> marco rubio outside of an atlanta suburb in kennesaw, stumping for votes taking questions from reporters there using language like called donald tr

ortega of spain and warren buffett in third at bill gates remains the world's richest person with a net worth of $78.7 billion. >>> the man who is a subject of the jinx strikes a deal in court. details next. >>> the super bowl player best known for the inspiration behind the movie, blindside, but is he happy with how he is >>> how guys, when you order now you get a free pizza after super bowl 50! that's a great idea. ever notice how people always show up when you have free pizza? free pizza? hello? we get it after the super bowl. oh... i'll come back. order now through super bowl sunday at papajohns.com and get a free pizza starting the monday after super bowl. use promo code superbowl50. better ingredients. better pizza. better football. >>> today. new york real estate error, robert durst, pled guilty to possessing a firearm and louisiana courtroom. they arrest stems from last march when they found the revolver in his new orleans hotel room. the conviction is another step towards us extradition in california. he is wanted in connection to a murder of a friend. he faces seven years in p

when warren buffett releases the berkshire hathaway annual report. lately buffett's stock portfolio has had a tough time of things. some high-profile disappointments. i'm thinking ameririn express and ibm. ny of us are hoping g at he will address those holdis. we'll be reading the letter this weekend and then be listening to the fabulous becky quick interview the oracle of omaha to see if he's sticking with the management of these companies when he comes on air from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. eastern. we also care about some of his potions in the oil and gas industry where all of us are grasping at straws. what does buffett think of oil and gas pipelines? do you know he has a monster position in them. how about the down and out railroads which ship crude? he owns the king, burlington northern. i can't wait to hear what he says when becky asks him about these investments. maybe he will comment on today's big win that he has. kraft heinz. reports. vrx. this stock's been put through the ringer. i want to hear how t ty defend theiaccounting recognition problems.