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With Sh11.7tr cash, Buffett wants 'huge acquisitions'

Warren Buffet

Billionaire Warren Buffett has lamented his inability to find big firms to buy, saying his goal is to make “one or more huge acquisitions” of non-insurance businesses to bolster results at his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

In his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders, Buffett admitted that finding things to buy at a “sensible purchase price” has become a challenge, a major reason Berkshire is awash with $116 billion (Sh11.7 trillion) of low-yielding cash and State bonds.

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