Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Just More Than Tripled Its Stake in Alphabet
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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) tripled its stake in Alphabet (GOOGL) to $16.6 billion during Q1 while holding $397.6 billion in cash and eliminating positions in 16 stocks including UnitedHealth and Visa. Alphabet generated $64.4 billion in free cash flow over the last 12 months and saw Google Cloud revenue rise 63% year-over-year with operating income from cloud tripling to $6.6 billion.
Major bank drops bombshell on Fed interest-rate bets
After an especially bruising week of hot back-to-back inflation headlines, increasing uncertainties about the end of the Iran war’s energy shocks, and a flaccid state visit to China, the bond market’s outlook for a Fed interest-rate hike this year flexed.
Long-dated Treasury yields pushed sharply higher,
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Read MoreWhy Everyone Is Talking About Lumentum Stock — and Why Investors Should Care
For much of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, investors focused on the companies building the brains behind AI. But quietly, another critical layer of the AI ecosystem has started emerging as a major investment theme: optical networking.
And that shift is putting Lumentum Holdings (LITE 3.14%) in the spotlight.
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Read MoreHoping for a Larger Social Security COLA in 2027 Could Backfire
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Social Security benefits rose 2.8% in 2026.
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Current estimates are calling for a larger COLA in 2027.
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While it’s natural to want a bigger raise, it could come back to bite you.
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Is Cava’s Rapid Expansion a Risky Overstretch?
CAVA has been growing like a weed, now sporting 341 locations across 25 states. While the pace of new openings slowed slightly this year with just 33 new restaurants in the first 28 weeks of 2024 compared to 43 in 2023, the management still reported a solid 32.6% year-over-year revenue increase, and generated $487 million.
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Tesla’s 40% Drop: Why Bears Say The Worst Is Yet to Come
The recent stock market drop has been a punishing time for the Magnificent Seven tech stocks, and the company hit worst by it has been Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA).
Shares of the EV manufacturer are down by a jaw-dropping 40 percent in the last three months and 26 percent in the last month alone.
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Spotlight: How To Spot a Breakout
Perhaps there is no better technical pattern to master if you want to consistently and predictably generate superior returns than the breakout.
It’s a generic term that applies to a wide range of chart patterns, including basic support and resistance, as well as flag patterns, cup-and-handles, and many others. So,