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☆ Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway hoarded cash, sold stocks, and halted buybacks ahead of the election
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Warren Buffett signaled in Berkshire Hathaway's third-quarter earnings that he was being cautious. The investor built a record cash pile, slashed his two biggest stock bets, and halted buybacks. The legendary investor and his team sold $36 billion of shares and only made purchases worth $1.5 billion, marking their eighth straight quarter as net sellers. Related storiesNotably, Berkshire pared its bets on Apple and Bank of America, its two largest stock positions going into the quarter. Buffett has said that buybacks only make financial sense when a stock is trading at a discount to its intrinsic value.

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"i'm looking forward to returning to openai," Altman said in a post on the X social media platform late on Tuesday. Sam Altman attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. OpenAI's previous board consisted of Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner and OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and Quora CEO D'Angelo, who is part of the revamped board. In a post on X on Tuesday, Shear said he worked "~72 very intense hours" to bring stability - and ultimately Altman - back to OpenAI. When he was out of a job, CEO Nadella said Altman could head a new research team alongside Brockman and other colleagues departing from OpenAI.

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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., October 23, 2023. Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) slid 6.6% in premarket trading as its cloud business crawled to its slowest growth in at least 11 quarters. Microsoft (MSFT.O), on the other hand, rose 3.9% after topping expectations for first-quarter results in all segments, including its cloud business. Of the 118 S&P 500 companies that have reported so far, 81% have beaten analysts' earnings expectations, LSEG data showed on Tuesday. ET, Dow e-minis were up 47 points, or 0.14%, S&P 500 e-minis were down 13 points, or 0.3%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 78.75 points, or 0.53%.

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☆ Saving for your child's college education? Here’s how to invest for the next 10 years, according to the pros
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Parents thinking of saving for their children's college education in around a decade could be in for some sticker shock. Breaking down the costs U.S. college tuition inflation averaged 12% annually from 2010 to 2022, according to T. Rowe Price, citing research by Education Data Initiative . Even assuming a more modest 5% annual inflation rate, the estimated total college cost could be as high as $383,823, she said. That college tuition bill 10 years from now — taking the $165,000 as a baseline and assuming a 3% normalized inflation rate and tuition inflation of 6% — could hit $295,000, according to Ebright. "It is important to maintain some exposure to growth assets as tuition inflation has traditionally been higher than the broader economy," Shen said.

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☆ Wall Street starts fretting about US debt again after months of easy stock-market gains
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Joseph Wilkins | George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Stocks have racked up easy gains over the past few months thanks to AI and cooling inflation. But investors are suddenly worried about debt again after Fitch slashed its credit rating for the US. The last time this happened was 2011 – and the S&P 500 took six months to recover its losses. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. In response, the S&P 500 dropped 6.5% and took a further six months to recover its losses.

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☆ Fitch's US debt-rating downgrade is bad news for stocks. Here's everything you need to know.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The downgrade comes two months after Joe Biden and House Republicans reached an 11th-hour deal to stop a catastrophic default. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. Here's everything you need to know about the ratings agency's shock move. Fitch said the last-minute debt-ceiling deal after months of shutdown had failed to convince it that Congress will be able to avert future calamities. As debt-ceiling negotiations dragged on earlier this year, the White House warned stocks could crash 45% if the government ever failed to repay its debts – so even a downgrade is bad news for the market.

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SummarySummary Companies Futures down: Dow 0.10%, S&P 0.17%, Nasdaq 0.22%March 28 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slipped on Tuesday as Treasury yields rose amid easing worries about a banking crisis following First Citizens BancShares' U.S. regulator-backed deal for failed Silicon Valley Bank. Shares of First Citizens BancShares Inc (FCNCA.O) fell 1% in premarket trading after surging more than 50% on Monday following its deal to acquire the deposits and loans of failed Silicon Valley Bank. Regional banks also rose, led by First Republic Bank's (FRC.N) 2.2% gain after a 12% rally on Monday. Later in the day, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr will testify before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on "bank oversight" in the first of several hearings on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. ET, Dow e-minis were down 31 points, or 0.1%, S&P 500 e-minis were down 6.75 points, or 0.17%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 27.75 points, or 0.22%.

☆ Big Tech tumbles as results sound alarm bells
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O), which is scheduled to report after markets close on Wednesday, was trading 4% lower. Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Apple Inc (AAPL.O), both due to report on Thursday, were down about 4% and 1%, respectively. While most Big Tech stocks have edged higher in the past few weeks, overall it has been a bleak year for the sector. Netflix, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple have already lost a combined $2.5 trillion in market value so far this year. read moreReporting by Yuvraj Malik and Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb ChakrabartyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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