Jobs report revealed 130,000 jobs were added in August, missing economists' expectations of 160,000 jobs. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.7% and average hourly earnings increased 3.2% year-over-year. Joe Song, U.S. economist at Bank of America, and Chris Macke, founder of Solutionomics join Yahoo Finance's Akiko Fujita to discuss.
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Berkshire Hathaway's first quarter profits plummeted along with the paper value of its investments, but the company said Saturday that most of the businesses it owns outright performed well. The figures were heavily influenced by a large drop in the paper value of Berkshire’s investments. Buffett encourages investors to pay more attention to the conglomerate’s operating earnings that exclude the investment figures.
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Steward Health Care System, the largest U.S. physician-owned hospital operator, is planning to file for chapter 11 protection as soon as Sunday, people familiar with the matter said, marking one of the biggest hospital bankruptcies in decades.
Palantir shares have surged 36% this year—and more than 200% over the last 12 months—as the data analytics software company gains traction with its artificial intelligence applications, in particular with U.S. commercial customers. Investors will get fresh insights on how Palantir’s AI push is going when the company reports first-quarter financial results after the close of trading on Monday. Palantir’s fourth-quarter results were impressive, driven by strength in the company’s U.S. commercial business, which were, as CEO Alex Karp put it in an interview with Barron’s three months ago, “bombastic, baller, incomprehensibly good.”
The market rally made a bullish move, with Nvidia flashing a buy signal. Palantir leads five AI stocks near buy points with earnings due.
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