stocks

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Berkshire Hathaway may have sold about $15 billion in stocks in Q1, divesting holdings managed by Todd Combs, who left in December.

From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026

Read more: A bullish indicator for software stocks just flashed.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

The result is that the fund isn’t growing like many of its Gulf peers, whose portfolios have been lifted by rising stocks they hold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Over the long term, bonds and especially stocks have generated much higher returns than gold or stacks of currency.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

Most bought this insurance on subprime mortgages not as an outright bet against them but as a hedge against their implicit bet on them—their portfolios of U.S. real estate– related stocks or bonds.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis