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By Evie Vavasseur
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Greg Abel Takes the Wheel. Chief Executive Greg Abel is running the show now on capital allocation, a job that used to belong…
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Alphabet In, Chevron Out of Top Five. The Alphabet investment reshuffled Berkshire's top holdings.
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No Crypto, No Comment on Digital Assets. One thing that's clear: Berkshire isn't touching crypto.
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Berkshire Hathaway spent $23.5 billion on stocks last quarter. Only $10 billion of that is accounted for — the rest is anyone's guess until August 14.
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That's when the conglomerate files its 13F disclosure with regulators, laying out every U.S. stock position it held as of June 30.
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For the first time in 14 quarters, Berkshire flipped from net seller to net buyer. That's a big deal. The company sold $3.
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Chief Executive Greg Abel is running the show now on capital allocation, a job that used to belong to Warren Buffett. And he's not being shy about it. Berkshire repurchased $4.
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Operating earnings came in at $13 billion for the quarter, up 16%. The insurance float — basically the pool of premiums Berkshire collects before paying out claims — reached $177.
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That number was $397.4 billion before. The drop is the first meaningful reduction in years, driven partly by the stock buys and partly by two major acquisitions: a $9.
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The Alphabet investment reshuffled Berkshire's top holdings. Chevron, which had been a fixture near the top, dropped out of the top five. That's not a trivial change.
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The commercial and industrial equity category jumped by $21.1 billion. That's the bucket where the mystery $13.5 billion probably lives, at least in part.
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And Berkshire isn't saying anything publicly about it. The company has stayed quiet, which is pretty standard practice when you're trying to build a position without moving the…
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One thing that's clear: Berkshire isn't touching crypto. There's no indication in any of its filings or public statements that digital assets are anywhere near the radar.
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