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Berkshire Hathaway to buy Occidental’s OxyChem for $9.7 billion, in Buffett’s biggest deal in three years
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025. CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced Thursday it reached a deal to buy Occidental Petroleum’s petrochemical unit, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion in cash. The deal marks Berkshire’s largest since 2022, when it paid $11.6 billion for insurer Alleghany. […]
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Tokenization of real world assets is an unstoppable ‘freight train’ coming to major markets: Robinhood CEO
Vlad Tenev, chief executive officer of Robinhood Markets Inc., during the Token2049 conference in Singapore, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The tokenization of real-world assets, from stocks to real estate, will spread to financial markets around the world, according to Robinhood Markets Chief Executive Officer Vlad Tenev. “Tokenization is […]
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Corporate borrowers face funding trade-off as PIMCO flags debt market ‘cracks’
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on October 1, 2025, in New York City. Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty Images PIMCO President Christian Stracke is upbeat on the asset-based finance segment of the private credit market, but warns of “cracks” in corporate […]
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OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI has finalized a secondary share sale totaling $6.6 billion, allowing current and former employees to sell stock at a record […]
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South Korea’s Kospi hits record high as Samsung and SK Hynix soar on OpenAI partnership
The Seoul skyline. Mongkol Chuewong | Moment | Getty Images South Korea’s Kospi index jumped more than 3% Thursday to hit an all-time high, lifted by gains in heavyweight Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Shares in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which announced a partnership with OpenAI late Wednesday to supply memory chips, rose over […]
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SK Hynix shares hit multidecade highs, Samsung also surges as chipmakers partner with OpenAI
Headquarters of Samsung in Mountain View, California, on October 28, 2018. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Shares of South Korean chip heavyweights Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix surged Thursday, a day after the two companies partnered with artificial-intelligence major OpenAI as part of the U.S. firm’s Stargate initiative. Shares of Samsung hit […]
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Stock futures are little changed as investors look past government shutdown: Live updates
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE Stock futures are little changed Wednesday night after the S&P 500 logged a fresh high and investors appeared to shrug off concerns tied to the latest U.S. government shutdown. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 20 points, or […]
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S&P 500 closes above 6,700 for first time as traders bet on short-lived shutdown
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Wednesday as traders were hopeful that a U.S. federal government shutdown would be brief and possibly have little impact on the economy. The broad market index gained 0.34% to close at 6,711.20. Earlier, […]
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Santoli’s Wednesday market wrap-up: Mixed but resilient tape pushes stocks to new highs
(These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator. See today’s video update from Mike above.) A new quarter but the same old routine in the markets: A mixed but resilient tape pushing the benchmark index to new highs through persistent momentum in core AI plays, retail-trader favorites and […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Pfizer, Nike, Conagra, Corteva, GEO Group, Tesla, Reddit and more
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Drug stocks — Shares of drugmakers rallied a second day as investors bet the industry will strike more deals with the Trump administration. On Tuesday, Pfizer received a three-year exemption to tariffs in exchange for investing in domestic manufacturing and discounting drug prices for Medicaid patients. Pfizer […]
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