Six blue-chip stocks aggressively backed by Warren Buffett are on sale on Wall Street as the year draws to a close, mainly due to broad economic factors and stock market fashion. That makes them worth a look,

Warren Buffett reportedly manages about 90% of Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) equity securities portfolio, while understudies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler handle the rest. The company does not disclose which investment manager makes each individual trade,

Warren Buffett, the iconic investor and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK), is renowned for his timeless advice on wealth-building. What Happened: With a net worth of approximately $142 billion,

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has been busy over the past week buying stock in an internet domain-name registry company, to extend its stature as the company’s largest shareholder.

Geico, and pension plans of other Berkshire Hathaway units bought nearly $30 million of shares of domain-name registry firm VeriSign.

Despite Buffett overseeing stakes in nearly four-dozen securities, the lion's share of Berkshire's invested assets have been put to work in seven top ideas.