Greg Abel Just Plowed $4.2 Billion Into Warren Buffett's All-Time Favorite Stock
Greg Abel invested $4.2 billion into Warren Buffett's all-time favorite stock during the second quarter ended June 30.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Greg Abel invested $4.2 billion into Warren Buffett's all-time favorite stock during the second quarter ended June 30.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Omdia estimates global semiconductor revenue could rise 94% in 2026, with computing and data storage chips generating just under $1 trillion and high-performance/AI computing chips reaching a $2 trillion market by 2030 (per AMD).
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trian Fund Management, led by Nelson Peltz, is reportedly preparing a potential bid to take Wendy’s (WEN) private, with a formal offer potentially coming within weeks.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Piper Sandler initiated coverage of Unusual Machines (UMAC) with an “Overweight” rating and a $38 price target, implying 39.5% upside from current levels.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The FT Nasdaq Aba Community Bank Fund (QABA), which holds stocks of more than 150 community banks, has a setup suggesting bank-consolidation merger momentum may be ending as margin pressure, weak loan demand, and commercial real estate (CRE) maturity exposure weigh on net interest margin (NIM).
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Birkenstock shares rose 11.59% on Aug. 13 after fiscal 2026 third-quarter results showed stronger-than-expected revenue, solid online growth, and management lifted its full-year guidance.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI compute is becoming an “investable asset class,” with Nvidia working with major financial institutions to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI data centers and Nvidia hardware.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan bought 105,263 Intel shares at $95 in the open market in connection with the company’s concurrent $20 billion secondary offering, valuing the purchase at $10 million.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Stripe and Advent are again reportedly in talks to buy PayPal for $60.50 a share, valuing it at about $53 billion, after an earlier July offer.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Berkshire Hathaway increased its Alphabet stake 83% in Q2 to about 106 million shares worth $37.9 billion, making Alphabet its third-largest U.S.-listed equity holding by market value behind Apple and American Express.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
Thrive Capital’s Joshua Kushner says AI investing should not let “excitement weaken our investment discipline,” and argues Thrive avoids “spray-and-pray” by concentrating ~90% of each fund’s capital into the top 15 investments.
Aug 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The CFTC is conducting an internal review of “mention markets” on prediction platforms, and Kalshi was alerted to the review several weeks ago.
Aug 14, 2026 ·CNBC
Virgin Galactic delayed the start of commercial spaceflight to February 2027 and plans to raise suborbital ticket prices later this year after demand exceeded the initial $750,000 seat batch.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
The Register
S&P 500 companies’ blended net profit margin is 16.9% in Q2, up from 14.8% in Q1 and 12.9% a year ago (above the 12.4% five-year average), which would be the highest since FactSet began tracking in 2009.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
Iran’s central bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati said Iran is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank, with Hemmati seeking bilateral and trilateral monetary cooperation with BRICS member states.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
Steve Eisman says OpenAI and Anthropic drive about 70% of AI-related revenue at Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet’s Google, and Oracle—and as much as 25% to 35% of their cloud revenue, making them a key point of failure for the AI boom.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) placed third globally in NAND memory chip shipments in Q2 with a 14% share, narrowly beating Micron and Kioxia and trailing Samsung and SK hynix.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
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Aug 12, 2026 ·CNBC
Short interest in SpaceX fell to about 11% of its publicly traded shares on Wednesday, down from a peak of 34% last week, as stock rebounded more than 40% off its Aug. 3 low.
Aug 12, 2026 ·CNBC
Lead times for key enterprise IT infrastructure parts are stretching to 9–12 months (and up to 18 months), while memory-driven price increases range from 35%–45% for PCs and up to over 125% for some server prices—so shortages are expected to last well into 2026 and beyond.
Aug 12, 2026 ·
Computerworld
