Filed under: People, Investing, Berkshire Hathaway
When Warren Buffett speaks, investors listen intently. So you can imagine Wall Street's surprise when Warren Buffett indicated Tuesday night in a letter to shareholders that he has been diagnosed with stage 1 prostate cancer.
Suffice it to say that mild panic swept through Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK-A) (BRK-B) shareholders, who sent the stock gyrating in after-hours trading until traders got a grip on fact that treatments for Buffett's current ailment have a high success rate. As the...
Warren Buffett's Greatest Legacy: Ensuring He's Not Irreplaceable originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-04-18T12:00:00Z.
