Buffett invests big chunk of Berkshire Hathaway’s cash

Berkshire Hathaway’s first-quarter earnings fell more than 53% on a large swing on the paper value of its investments, but Warren Buffett found ways to put some of the company’s massive cash pile to w...

Grubhub Owner Jet Could See Broader Engine Failure

Grubhub owner Just Eat Takeaway.com’s TKWY 3.87% share price fell nearly 70% over the past year. Trimming the fat might not help in the long run. The European food-delivery giant said in April it woul...

Warren Buffett Says Markets Have Become a ‘Gambling Parlor’

OMAHA, Neb.—As recently as February, Warren Buffett lamented he wasn’t finding much out there that was worth buying.  That is no longer the case. After a yearslong deal drought, Mr. Buffett’s Berkshir...

Berkshire Hathaway: Live Coverage of the Annual Shareholders Meeting

OMAHA, Neb.—The Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting is back in person for 2022, after a two-year pandemic hiatus moved the so-called “Woodstock for Capitalists” online. Warren Buffett addre...

Berkshire Hathaway First Quarter Operating Profits Edged Higher as Buybacks Slowed

Berkshire Hathaway made a big bet on other stocks in the first quarter, and energy was a favorite. Warren Buffett’s company bought $51.1 billion worth of equities in the quarter, according to the comp...

For Exxon and Chevron, profit misses could create a buying opportunity

Mixed quarterly results dragged shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. lower on Friday, although Wall Street kept Chevron stock among its top energy picks and predicted more upside for Exxon sh...

‘So bad, it’s good.’ This beleaguered stock market has one big asset on its side, say strategists.

A rough month for stocks is drawing to a close, and many investors likely won’t be sad to see the back of it. And the last day of April trade is looking weak as Apple and Amazon failed to raise the ba...

Netflix Sent Warner Bros. Discovery Stock for a Dive. Execs Bought Up Shares.

Text size David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Warner Bros. Discovery stock has tumbled in the short time the company was formed from the merger of AT...

Stock of SPAC buying Truth Social jumps after Trump posts for first time in months

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company that is buying the company behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social, soared in after-hours trading Thursday after Trump pos...

Boomers are leaving the stock market. Here’s what comes next, says this strategist.

Stocks are in the green for Thursday, with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in the driver’s seat after less disastrous than feared results. Gains are a bit less than what stock futures were promising th...

Opinion: Berkshire and Buffett have 5 words for sellers who want their money: ‘Take it or leave it’

As fans flock this weekend to Omaha, Neb. for Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting hosted by Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about.  The answer: ...

Tesla Stock Is Pricing in $37 of Twitter Fear. Here’s How We Know.

Text size CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images Tesla and Twitter stocks are linked, for at least a little while, as investors wonder how Tesla CEO Elon Musk will fund th...

Twitter Stock Falls on Fears Musk Might Abandon Deal

Text size One merger arbitrager says the Twitter deal’s conditions are “seller-friendly.” Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter shares are falling Wednesday as investors worry that Elon M...

Twitter Stock Offers 9% Return to Musk’s Takeover Price After Tuesday’s Selloff

Text size Shares of Twitter fell about $2, meaning investors stand to make about 9% if Musk’s offer goes through. Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter stock now offers a 9% return to Elon Musk’s tak...

Tesla Stock Dropped After Elon Musk’s Deal for Twitter. Blame Margin Borrowing.

Text size Elon Musk is taking Twitter private. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter shares are rising and Tesla stock is down in response to news that the Twitter board of directors accepted Tesla CEO...

Annaly Capital to Sell Middle- Market Lending Portfolio to Ares for About $2.4 Billion

Text size Ares currently has $314 billion assets under management, up from $25 billion in 2008. Dreamstime Ares Management Corp said Monday that it agreed to buy the middle-market lending portfolio of...

Twitter Sale to Musk Is Another Sign the Stock Market Is in Trouble

Twitter accepted an offer from Elon Musk to go private. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Twitter is getting bought out by Elon Musk—and for a price that looks too low. It could be a sign that the...

JCPenney owners offer $8.6 billion to acquire rival Kohl’s

The owners of JCPenney have made an offer to acquire archrival Kohl’s in a deal that could value the department-store chain at upwards of $8.6 billion, The Post has learned. Under the proposal, shoppi...

PS Business Parks to Be Bought for $7.6 Billion By Blackstone. The Stock Soars.

Text size Blackstone bought PS Business Parks shortly after acquiring American Campus Communities , a student-housing company. Dreamstime PS Business Parks stock soared on Monday after the commercial ...

Activision Blizzard’s Earnings Miss. Investors Care More About Microsoft Merger.

Text size Microsoft announced plans to purchase Activision Blizzard for about $69 billion, or $95 a share, in January. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Activision Blizzard stock was dipping on Monday after...

Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion in one of the biggest tech acquisitions of all time 

Tesla Billionaire and tech tycoon Elon Musk has bought social media giant Twitter in a very public bid to unlock Twitter’s extraordinary potential.  Earlier today, Twitter shares halted as the world h...

Twitter Re-Examines Elon Musk’s Bid, May Be More Receptive to a Deal

Twitter Inc. TWTR 3.93% is re-examining Elon Musk’s $43 billion takeover offer after the billionaire lined up financing for the bid, in a sign the social-media company could be more receptive to a dea...

Gap stock sinks 18%, heads for lowest close since July 2020

Gap Inc. stock plunged 18% in Friday trading after the company announced Old Navy’s Chief Executive Nancy Green is leaving the role, and the company lowered first-quarter sales expectations. Green is ...

Apple gave investors more than $100 billion last year — how much more is coming?

Apple Inc. is getting ready to show investors the money. Apple’s AAPL, -2.78% Thursday afternoon earnings report not only will reveal how the consumer-electronics giant is managing supply-chain and ma...

For Ackman’s Pershing Square, a Record of Big Hits and Misses

Pershing Square Capital’s William Ackman has had some successes in recent years, but also some big flops, with Netflix being the latest example. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New York Times ...

AT&T CEO John Stankey on the Dividend, Inflation, and Why to Buy the Stock

The focus is on 5G wireless and fiberoptic broadband services. DirecTV, WarnerMedia , Vrio, and Xandr all are gone or in the process of being divested. AT&T (ticker: T) completed the spinoff of it...

AT&T Shareholders Who Sell Warner Bros. Stock Face Tax Complexities

Text size AT&T shares have risen 10% since April 8. Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Since the AT&T spinoff of its 71% stake in Warner Bros. Discovery to its shareholders on April 8, ma...

Why Bill Ackman gave up on Netflix just three months after buying the stock

Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive William Ackman, in a letter to shareholders, said Wednesday he sold the hedge fund’s investment in Netflix Inc. Ackman said he had high regard for Netflix...

Opinion: Do poison pills work? A finance expert explains the anti-takeover tool that Twitter hopes will keep Elon Musk at bay

Takeovers are usually friendly affairs. Corporate executives engage in top-secret talks, with one company or group of investors making a bid for another business. After some negotiating, the companies...

Much To the Surprise Of Taxpayers, the IRS Ask For Reports on Crypto Acquisitions And Sales

Surprisingly, the 2022 tax season did not go through many challenges this time. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would easily meet the scheduled deadline, April 18, for the first time in the last th...