Marketwatch reports: The Buffett, the billionaire American investor, said yesterday that he doubted that it was possible to find a good buy among Chinese shares because the market was “too hot” and was worthy of caution.
Last week, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold its entire stake in PetroChina, which has risen 76 per cent this year to become the world’s second-biggest company by market value, netting a huge profit for the insurance and investment company.
Buffett said: “It was a very easy decision to buy PetroChina. It was one third of what it was worth, maybe a quarter. I doubt in the present market I would find something like that. The market has been too hot. I will keep looking.” Buffett said that he had written to Jiang Jiemin, PetroChina’s chairman, thanking him for the “terrific” job that he and his managers had done for shareholders.