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Berkshire Hathaway was long teased as the conglomerate that couldn’t find anything worthwhile to buy. Now, as the cash pile has swelled to $400 billion—it’s highest ever—and with a new…
Read article →To get into the S&P 500, a company is supposed to make some money. The sum of its four quarters of earnings has to be positive—at least GAAP wise—and so…
Read article →I won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Lords of Finance, my account of how four central bankers’ decisions triggered the Great Depression. I have just completed 1873, a book on America’s…
Read article →Good morning. On Fortune’s radar today: Markets: Global rally underway! Trump tells Netanyahu: “You’re f—ing crazy.” The S&P 500 might help Anthropic and SpaceX but hurt investors. Bank of America…
Read article →Liaquat Ahamed has spent his career studying the moments when the world’s financial system breaks down—the bad bets, the collective delusions, and the geopolitical accidents that tip economies into catastrophe.…
Read article →When Rory McIlroy won the Masters for the second year in a row, Kalshi shared a photo of him on Instagram with the words, “Wait he’s goated.” When a video…
Read article →Berkshire Hathaway‘s new CEO Greg Abel started off the week with a $6.8 billion acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison and then followed that up Monday with a $10 billion stock investment in…
Read article →At 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on June 2, 2026, the price of Bitcoin (1 BTC) is $69,256.14. That represents a $2,888.97 decrease from yesterday morning and about a $36,650 loss…
Read article →At 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on June 2, 2026, one Ethereum (ETH) is priced at $1,978.02. That marks a $10.36 dip from yesterday morning and approximately a $630 decrease compared…
Read article →At 9 a.m. Eastern Time on May 28, 2026, the going rate for one Bitcoin (BTC) is $73,459.89. That’s $1,964.07 lower than yesterday morning’s level and about $34,375 below where…
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