With an estimated net worth of $155 billion, Warren Buffett is the eighth richest person in the world, according to The Bloomberg Billionaires Index. What's stunning about Buffett's wealth is he acquired it primarily through stock market investments.

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The opportunity-starved organization is likely to start making major investments again -- just in a different way.

The massive conglomerate reported strong results but could be showing reasons for investors to be cautious.

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) is hovering around an all-time despite last week's sell-off in the major indexes. At the time of this writing, Berkshire's market cap is $1.11 trillion,

There is a very good reason why Warren Buffett is known as the Oracle of Omaha. Since taking control of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A)(NYSE:BRK-B) in 1965, Buffett has generated cumulative returns 5,

U.S. stock indexes are slumping further from their records Thursday as Wall Street’s frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology weakens some more. The S&P 500 was down 1% in late trading and on track for its fifth drop in six days after setting an all-time high set last week.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett told CBS ... Stocks such as Tesla and Nvidia now make up a huge chunk of the S&P 500's total value, exposing investors to heavy losses if they tumble.

Berkshire did better than I expected though 53% of our 189 operating businesses reported a decline in earnings," he wrote. "We were aided by a predictable large gain in

with the Nasdaq Composite falling 2.8% and the S&P 500 slipping 1.6% in response to a widespread sell-off in mega-cap growth stocks like Nvidia. But Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE ...