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Omaha-based conglomerate led by Warren Buffett, holding insurance, railroad, energy and manufacturing units plus a large public-equity portfolio.
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Greg Abel added 48.1 million Alphabet shares in his second full quarter as CEO, with roughly 60% of the spend routed through a private placement tied to Google's June capital raise.
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Greg Abel has run Berkshire since the turn of the year, but Warren Buffett publicly claims paternity of the position that now ranks third in its portfolio. That gap is the question for boards mid-handover.
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A federal judge refused to order Google to sell its ad exchange, which takes a forced sale off the table for the ad stack, and the small bounce that followed says the argument over Alphabet has moved to the token price sheet.
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Berkshire put $39.4bn into equities in the first half of 2026 against $7.1bn a year earlier. On September 18 the chairmanship passed to Howard Buffett, whose remit his father defined as guarding the culture.
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Warren Buffett becomes chairman emeritus and his son Howard takes over the board while Greg Abel keeps running the company, with $4.5bn of second-quarter buybacks the only use of the cash Berkshire has disclosed.
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A Seeking Alpha analyst values Berkshire Hathaway at $1.18 trillion, about 8% above its market cap, and rests the bull case on Greg Abel putting $10 billion into Alphabet and $6.8 billion into Taylor Morrison. He is long the stock.
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Warren Buffett has made himself chairman emeritus and kept his board seat, leaving Greg Abel with operating control and his son Howard with the company's culture. Berkshire built that split in stages, not in one announcement.
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Filings show million-dollar-plus buys and sales landing on June 18, a day after an interim Iran deal was signed. The White House says a computer picked them, and the paperwork cannot say otherwise.
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A June disclosure released Aug. 22 logs 1,051 securities transactions in Trump's accounts. The value bands are so wide the filing's own total lands anywhere between $78.1 million and $263.1 million.
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A June Meta sale and a Berkshire purchase sit on top of Q1 filings designed for portfolios that moved a few dozen times a quarter. The count is the governance number, not the dollars.
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The chipmaker raised more than $2.6 billion selling depositary receipts, then announced a $27 billion buyback-and-cancel at prices roughly a third lower. Price discipline, not signalling.
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The largest corporate bond ever sold in Australia raised about US$3.9bn for Alphabet. Its 2026 capital expenditure guidance is between $195bn and $205bn.
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Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger's record bid is being read by outside analysts as a non-passive shield against carried interest. The pricing logic may sit in the tax code.
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