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Warren Buffet loses 50 Billion as his holdings in Delta take a hit

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Warren Buffet loses 50 Billion as his holdings in Delta take a hit
Posted by highball6868 on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 11:28 AM

Time to seperate BNSF from the rest of Berkshire Hathaway B Stock so it does not sink with the rest of the ship?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/05/02/berkshire-hathaway-lost-50-billion-last-quarter-as-warren-buffetts-investments-took-a-hit-from-coronavirus/#2c4db59c7fcf

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Posted by highball6868 on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 11:32 AM

last trade today 7/28/20 was 192.72....if you got the stock a when it first came out you still are doing ok

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 12:49 PM

He'll bounce back.  

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 1:38 PM

Warren doesn't panic.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by Ulrich on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 1:46 PM

BaltACD

Warren doesn't panic.

 

 

He turns 90 in a few weeks, and he never invests what he can't afford to lose. Warren will be just fine. As for other BH investors.. maybe not so much. Blindly following someone else is no substitute for using one's own noggin..

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Posted by Backshop on Tuesday, July 28, 2020 7:54 PM

You only lose if you sell.  Delta is still the best run domestic/international US airline.  It'll come back.  Buffett buys for the long term.

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Posted by jeffhergert on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 2:11 AM

highball6868

Time to seperate BNSF from the rest of Berkshire Hathaway B Stock so it does not sink with the rest of the ship?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/05/02/berkshire-hathaway-lost-50-billion-last-quarter-as-warren-buffetts-investments-took-a-hit-from-coronavirus/#2c4db59c7fcf

 

The date on the original link was May 2nd.  On the next day on a different news source was this:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/buffett-dumps-entire-airline-stake-saying-the-world-changed-for-airlines-2020-05-02?mod=article_inline

Jeff 

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Posted by rrnut282 on Monday, August 10, 2020 1:27 PM

The question to ask is how much did he make over the years he owned the stock?  Then the drop won't look as bad.  (but still bad, no matter how you look at it)  

So far, it's been very, very hard to make money long-term in the airline world.  

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Posted by kgbw49 on Monday, August 10, 2020 10:00 PM

The old saw goes:

How do you make a little money in the airline business?

Start with a lot of money.

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Posted by narig01 on Thursday, August 20, 2020 10:21 PM

kgbw49

The old saw goes:

How do you make a little money in the airline business?

Start with a lot of money.

 

Richard Branson on how to be a millionaire, start as a billionaire, then start an airline. 

Mr Branson is trying to borrow money for his airline by borrowing money, and using his island in the Caribbean as collateral.

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