The biggest immediate changes will be that different people will be in control of the company's stock portfolio, and Abel will have power over Berkshire's $344 billion cash hoard. However, portfolio managers Ted Weschler and Todd Combs have been managing more of Berkshire's investments as the years have progressed.

Berkshire Hathaway has now gone six full weeks without closing above its 200-day moving average, the longest stretch the stock has been underwater in nearly

Berkshire Hathaway is deploying its $344B cash pile into undervalued stocks like UnitedHealth, while trimming Apple and BAC. See why BRK.A stock is a buy.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK-B) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed. When a caller inquired about it, Cramer was quick to say: “Buy more, buy more. I’m just, I’m not buying this idea that this thing is Warren Buffett and nothing else.

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Shares of UnitedHealth Group are surging before the market open Friday as Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it recently purchased shares of the beleaguered insurer.