A Letter from Mr. Buffett
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The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Berkshire-Hathaway posted a loss in the 4th quarter. Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross analyzes Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders and shares why a new acquisition probably won’t happen in 2019. Plus, we delve into GE’s $21 billion sale of its biopharma unit to Danaher, and dip into the Fool Mailbag.
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| 0:19.6 | Terms and conditions apply. It's Monday, February 25th. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio. |
| 0:28.0 | It's the Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross. |
| 0:30.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey, Chris, always, great time. |
| 0:33.0 | So you're one of those maniacs who wakes up early on a Saturday morning because Warren Buffett |
| 0:41.9 | has posted his annual letter to shareholders and |
| 0:45.1 | we're going to get to that. |
| 0:46.1 | That's why I wanted to have you on because I thought, oh I know who's going to be up. |
| 0:48.8 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:49.8 | Reading this thing start to finish. |
| 0:50.8 | It'll be Andy. |
| 0:51.8 | We're also going to dip into the full mailback, but let's |
| 0:54.2 | start with Berkshire Hathaway, and let's start with this. They posted a loss in the fourth quarter. |
| 0:58.7 | Massive one. The massive, although posting a loss pretty rare for Berkshire Hathaway, we touched on this on Motley |
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