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[CPDO rating error] Buffett doesn’t blink

Even as Moody’s shares were being hammered in New York trading, The Sage of Omaha seemed unmoved by his attendant paper loss of $250m or so.

Said Warren, whose Berkshire Hathaway owns a 19.6 per cent stake in Moody’s, at a Madrid news conference:

I would doubt very much that any events of any one day will permanently change the franchise value of Moody’s

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