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Credit derivative losses hit Berkshire profits

11 November 2008
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Credit derivatives - famously described as "financial weapons of mass destruction" by Warren Buffett - came back to bite his Berkshire Hathaway investment conglomerate as its profits slumped 77 percent in the third quarter.

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