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Viewsroom: Warren Buffett eats crow

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Kraft Heinz’s poor earnings, $15 bln writedown and accounting investigation forced the Berkshire Hathaway boss to admit he overpaid for the nuts-to-Velveeta cheese purveyor. Breakingviews columnists discuss what went wrong. Plus: Trump buys more time in his China trade spat. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hear that? It's your big McDonald's hunger calling, because the Big Arch is back, and this time it's here to stay with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and that Big Arch sauce.

0:09.9

Hungry, you are now.

0:11.7

Order delivery on the McDonald's app.

0:15.0

Serve from 11am, upcharges and fees apply to delivery orders.

0:17.9

Subjects availability, price and participation may vary.

0:20.3

The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Roiders News.

0:29.9

Has Warren Buffett lost his touch?

0:32.4

And how is President Donald Trump's decision to delay tariffs on Chinese goods being received in Beijing.

0:38.7

Welcome to the views room. I'm Anthony Curry and with me is my co-host Jennifer Saber. Hi, Jen.

0:43.1

Hello. Now later in this show, we'll be handing the mic over to Pete Sweeney, our Asia

0:47.3

Economics editor. He'll be grilling another of our colleagues, Chris Bedour, about what seems to be a

0:52.4

daint in the U.S. China trade war. We start, though, by paying a

0:56.2

visit to the Oracle of Omaha and the rotten performance of one of his biggest recent investments,

1:01.5

Food purveyor Craft Hines. To help us sift through the mess, we are joined on the line from Dallas

1:06.0

by Lauren Silver Lofman. Hi, Lauren. Hi, Al. And with us in the studio is John Furley. Hi, John.

1:12.0

Hi, John. So, John, let's just quickly, if you could, recap for our listeners, what has been going on?

1:18.8

Why is Kraft in so much trouble at the moment? They had earnings last week. What happened?

1:22.7

So, in short, Kraft came out with earnings on Thursday nights. Kraft obviously makes everything from baked beans to that disgusting cheese called Velveeta

1:31.6

that Americans love so much.

1:35.2

It announced a huge write-down of the value of some of its core brands, including the Kraft brand, which is quite embarrassing.

1:40.5

Took a big loss.

1:41.8

Shares have fallen since then by about a third.

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