Investment strategy
Warren Buffett shuns stock buybacks even as Berkshire lags the market. Here’s why
Warren Buffett is keeping his wallet closed. Berkshire Hathaway didn’t repurchase any of its shares in the first nine months of 2025, even as the conglomerate’s cash pile swelled to a record $382 billion . The restraint underscores Buffett’s long-standing discipline: he buys back Berkshire stock only when he deems it undervalued. Buffett laid out […]
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Evolve Bank CEO fired after propositioning FBI agent who pretended to be a teen boy
Evolve Bank CEO Bob Hartheimer booking photo. Source: Shelby County Jail Bob Hartheimer, CEO of Tennessee’s Evolve Bank & Trust, was fired after U.S. law enforcement officials caught him propositioning a law enforcement officer posing as a 15-year-old boy on gay dating app Grindr. On Oct. 19, an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
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Interest rate backdrop supports playing offense with bonds, according to Goldman Sachs former ETF head
Bonds may be more than just a safe haven. BondBloxx ETFs’ Tony Kelly, a former Goldman Sachs Asset Management global ETF head, contends it’s where investors can also play offense due to the market backdrop. “It’s definitely getting more nuanced,” the firm’s co-founder told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “Advisors are being a bit more thoughtful […]
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Berkshire’s operating earnings jump 34%, Buffett buys back no stock and raises cash hoard to $381 billion
Warren Buffett and Greg Abel walkthrough the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025. David A. Grogen | CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reported a sharp rebound in operating profit on Saturday, while its cash pile swelled to a new high with no buybacks. Berkshire’s operating profit generated from the […]
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Lock in the gain? S&P 500 enters final two months of the year up 16%
Lock it in or let it ride? It’s a question that investors might ponder at this point in an unexpectedly rewarding year, as the calendar pivots appropriately from the season of feigned fright to one of gratitude for life’s bounty. For most people, this is less about getting fully out of or staying wholly in […]
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Caterpillar is among the most overbought stocks on Wall Street after a post-earnings surge. Here are the others
Strong earnings boosted the artificial intelligence trade and sent stocks higher on Friday, but some stocks could soon head for a selloff, according to one technical yardstick. As of Friday, about 63% of companies in the S & P 500 had reported their latest earnings. Of these, nearly 83% had posted an upside earnings surprise, […]
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These companies reporting earnings next week have momentum on their side
Third-quarter earnings season continues next week, and several companies gearing up to share their latest financials have the wind at their back in terms of rising estimates from analysts, including Robinhood and Palantir Technologies . Corporate profits have been strong over the past few weeks, with 82% of the S & P 500 companies reporting […]
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Bank of America names five stocks with more room to run before they report earnings
Bank of America named several stocks that are well positioned ahead of the rest of earnings season. The Wall Street investment bank says companies like Uber are too attractive to ignore. Other buy-rated names screened by CNBC Pro include: Datadog , Doximity, RB Global and Futu. Doximity The social platform for physicians is firing on […]
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Cramer says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy just sent a very expensive message to the bears
It was not surprising that Amazon shares surged on Friday morning after the company’s “show me” quarter proved to be a “show of major force” from CEO Andy Jassy, according to CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Amazon reported third-quarter results Thursday evening that reignited investor enthusiasm in its cloud business, Amazon Web Services, the biggest in the […]
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Don’t own any Apple? Gear up to buy some if the stock keeps falling
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Friday’s key moments. 1. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite pushed higher Friday, buoyed by strength in Big Tech names like Club holding Amazon . The e-commerce giant reported a blockbuster […]
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