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Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Rick Newman, Jared Blikre and Dan Howley discuss the big stories of the day.

Today’s topics:

Uber paid hackers $100K to keep breach a secret
Durable Goods for October disappoints
Fed Chair Yellen warns about ‘boom-bust’ economy
Deere shares jump after earnings beat, 2018 guidance raise
Crude oil tops $58/bbl., a 2-year high
FCC working to eliminate net neutrality
HPE down after CEO Meg Whitman steps down
JPM looks to trade bitcoin futures despite CEO Dimon’s opposition
Tesla may hit $400, then get cut in half: Morgan Stanley
Apple buys Vrvana to reach AR headset goal: TechCrunch
New Age Beverages net revenue up 12% in Q3
Trump defends Roy Moore amidst allegations
Disney exec takes leave after ‘misstep with employees’
Gaming shopping guide for Black Friday

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Steward Health Care to File for Bankruptcy as Soon as Sunday
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.
The Wall Street Journal
$3 trillion could be injected into the U.S. economy without any federal spending by tweaking this corner of the mortgage market, ‘Oracle of Wall Street’ says
"Rarely have I seen such a true win-win scenario for the government, Wall Street and the U.S. consumer."
Fortune
Warren Buffett Bought $9.2 Billion of This Stock Last Year, and He Could Buy Even More in 2024
One of Buffett's favorite stocks of all time topped his list of buys in 2023.
Motley Fool
Palantir Earnings Day Is Here. The Focus Is On AI.
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.”
Barrons.com
Berkshire's profit plunges 64% on portfolio holdings as Buffett sells Apple
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.
Associated Press Finance
U.S. Money Supply Is Doing Something So Rare That It Hasn't Happened Since the Great Depression -- and a Big Move in Stocks May Follow
M2 money supply hasn't done this in nine decades.
Motley Fool
2 Top Stocks That Could Make You Richer in 2024
Here are a couple of great ideas on where to invest your money today.
Motley Fool
3 Super-Safe Dividend Stocks That Have Been Making Recurring Payments for 130+ Years
These stocks have rock-solid businesses and they have impressive track records for paying dividends.
Motley Fool
Move Over, Nvidia: Billionaire Dan Loeb Is Betting on This Dividend-Paying Magnificent Seven Stock to Win the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Race Instead
Dan Loeb bet on one of the cheaper Magnificent Seven stocks as an underrated AI play.
Motley Fool
Dow Jones Futures Rise; Palantir, AI Plays On Tap After Stock Market, Nvidia Make Bullish Moves
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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