Shares of the Chinese coffee chain dipping following its first earnings report since its IPO. Luckin posted wider-than-expected losses as it tries to expand rapidly and serve up discounts to challenge Starbucks. Yahoo Finance's Brian Cheung joins Akiko Fujita.
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.
This industry-leading company is out of favor and worth buying now.
M2 money supply hasn't done this in nine decades.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected six proposals addressing environmental and social policy issues at Warren Buffett's conglomerate, all of which the billionaire investor and his board opposed. By margins of more than 4-to-1, shareholders at Berkshire's annual meeting voted against two proposals that the company's insurance and energy operations disclose more about their efforts to address climate change including greenhouse gas emissions. They also turned down a proposal for more disclosure about efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.
A big cash pile protects the above-average core operations of this stellar company.
Dan Loeb bet on one of the cheaper Magnificent Seven stocks as an underrated AI play.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Warren Buffett said on Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway sold its entire holding in media and entertainment company Paramount Global at a loss and he took sole responsibility for the decision. "It was 100% my decision, and we've sold it all, and we lost quite a bit of money," Buffett said at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. Berkshire held 63.3 million Paramount Class B shares at the end of 2023 or about 10.1% of the company.
We’ve received some mixed messages from the market recently. The S&P 500 finished April with a 4% loss, its first monthly loss after five straight months of gains. But the month of May has started with gains in trading, and the earnings season for 1Q24 has turned out better than expected. In addition, the Federal Reserve has indicated that it will be keeping interest rates ‘higher for longer,’ while inflation remains stubborn. A rate cut this year is still considered possible, but not likely unt
Bill Gross thinks a few other MLPs are more attractive than Enterprise Products Partners right now.