{"id":361243,"date":"2026-09-18T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/warren-buffett-steps-down-as-berkshire-hathaway-chairman"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:05:19","slug":"warren-buffett-steps-down-as-berkshire-hathaway-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/warren-buffett-steps-down-as-berkshire-hathaway-chairman","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Warren Buffett has stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the company announced in a statement published early on Friday, having served in the role since 1970.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Buffett, 96, is now chairman emeritus of the company and will remain a director, Berkshire Hathaway said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">His son, Howard Buffett, will take over as Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s new chairman, the statement added. Howard Buffett has been a member of the company&#8217;s board since 1993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Business\/warren-buffett-steps-berkshire-hathaway-chairman\/story?id=136552964\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett has stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the company announced in a statement published early on Friday, having served in the role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1774,19621,6739,36906,36907,1750,19622,304,36905,11312],"class_list":["post-361243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-berkshire-hathaway","tag-businesspeople","tag-chairman","tag-chairman-emeritus","tag-consumer-goods-conglomerates","tag-director","tag-economy-of-the-united-states","tag-finance","tag-howard-buffett","tag-warren-buffett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361245,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361243\/revisions\/361245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}