Friday, May 15, 2009

Buffett cuts stake in Constellation Energy

by Ryan Sharrow Staff
Baltimore Business Journal

Billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett has trimmed his stake in Constellation Energy Group Inc., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday.

The filing shows that Buffett’s Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. owns a 6.26 percent of the Baltimore energy giant. That’s down from a 7.25 percent stake listed in a February filing.

It’s not the first time in the past several months Buffett cut his stake.

MidAmerican, a subsidiary of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B), acquired a 10 percent stake in Constellation in December following Constellation’s move to terminate MidAmerican’s $4.7 billion deal to buy the company.

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