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Warren Buffett Acquires Aerospace Company In Blockbuster Deal

NPR
Published August 10, 2015 at 12:06 PM EDT

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has closed the biggest deal of his career.

Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced today that it has acquired the aerospace components company Precision Castparts, in a deal worth more than $37 billion.

Al Jazeera America’s Ali Velshi joins Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson to discuss the deal.

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In the biggest deal of his career, billionaire investor Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway acquired the aerospace components company Precision Castparts in a deal worth more than $37 billion. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
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In the biggest deal of his career, billionaire investor Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway acquired the aerospace components company Precision Castparts in a deal worth more than $37 billion. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

  • Ali Velshi, host of “Real Money with Ali Velshi” on Al Jazeera America. He tweets @AliVelshi.

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