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Berkshire Profit Climbs 72% on Derivatives, Railroad

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) said profit climbed 72 percent in the third quarter as a stock-market rally helped improve results in the derivatives book and earnings at the railroad climbed.

Net income rose to $3.9 billion, or $2,373 a share, from $2.28 billion, or $1,380, a year earlier, the Omaha, Nebraska- based company said today in a statement. Operating earnings, which exclude some investment results, were $2,057 a share, missing the $2,063 average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.”

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