McDonald’s is making the switch to paper straws at its restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland. More eco-friendly paper straws will be introduced in September and the rollout will be complete by 2019. Yahoo Finance's Alexis Christoforous, Andy Serwer and Pras Subramanian discuss.
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.
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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.