{"id":124268,"date":"2010-01-01T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3087194156628161158.post-8857505956706498047"},"modified":"2010-01-01T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T18:23:56","slug":"cnbc-warren-buffetts-berkshire-blasts-benchmark-sp-over-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/124268","title":{"rendered":"CNBC: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Blasts Benchmark S&P Over Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>Shares of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway far outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 stock index over the decade of the 2000s, with a gain of 76.8 percent.<\/p>\n

<\/span>The S&P dropped 24.1 percent, excluding dividends, over the same ten-year period ending today (Thursday.)<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Buffett beat the S&P in six of the 10 calendar years, but 2009 was not a winning year for the Oracle.<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Berkshire did manage a small gain of 2.7 percent this year, but the S&P’s surged 23.5 percent, excluding dividends That ends a three-year winning streak for Buffett & Co.<\/p>\n

<\/span>It’s the S&P’s biggest annual winning margin since the tech bubble days of 1999 when the benchmark beat Berkshire by over 39 percentage points. (Berkshire won by double-digits the next three years.)<\/p>\n

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