Stocks (^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC) are climbing higher as investors look ahead to earnings season. The technology (XLK) sector is most in the green, and the utilities (XLU) sector is most in the red. Yahoo Finance’s Jared Blikre joins us live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to talk markets. To discuss the other big stories of the day, Yahoo Finance’s Seana Smith is joined by Dan Roberts, Dion Rabouin and Ethan Wolff-Mann.
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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Berkshire Hathaway cut its stake in Apple by about 13% as its cash pile hit a record high in the first quarter. A bearish signal all around?
Berkshire Hathaway has sold its entire stake in Paramount Global losing “quite a bit of money,” Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett said at the company’s annual meeting on Saturday. Buffett also shot down speculation that Ted Weschler or Todd Combs, who together run about 10% of Berkshire Hathaway’s equity portfolio, had purchased the Paramount stake, taking responsibility for the investment himself. “It was 100% my decision and we’ve sold it all and we lost quite a bit of money,” said Buffett.
Warren Buffett discussed Berkshire Hathaway's decision to reduce its stake in tech giant Apple at Berkshire's annual meeting on Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska.
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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