Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024.  David A. Grogan Berkshire Hathaway‘s cash pile swelled to a record $276.9 billion last quarter as Warren Buffett sold big chunks in stock holdings including Apple. The Omaha-based conglomerate’s cash hoard jumped…

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Chevron — Stock in the oil major slipped more than 3% after the company’s second-quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates. Chevron reported adjusted earnings $2.55 per share on revenue of $51.18 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG forecast earnings of $2.93 per share on $50.8 billion in…

Morgan Stanley on Friday told its army of financial advisors that it will soon allow them to offer bitcoin ETFs to some clients, a first among major Wall Street banks, CNBC has learned. The firm’s 15,000 or so financial advisors can solicit eligible clients to purchase shares of two exchange-traded bitcoin funds starting Wednesday, according…

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2024. CNBC Warren Buffett is not done selling Bank of America. Berkshire Hathaway shed a total of 19.2 million BofA shares on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for almost $779 million at an average selling price of $40.52 per share, according…

Signage for the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is displayed outside the central bank’s headquarters in Singapore. Sam Kang Li | Bloomberg | Getty Images Singapore’s central bank established a task force to bolster the city-state’s stock market. The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced that the review group will evaluate measures to “improve the vibrancy”…

Customers are trying on and learning about Apple Vision Pro headsets at an Apple store in Shanghai, China, on July 22, 2024.  Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in extended trading: Apple — Shares of the iPhone maker inched higher, as the company beat analysts’ estimates on the top…

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Hershey — Shares were down 7% in the premarket after the chocolate maker posted second-quarter results that missed analyst expectations. The company earned $1.27 per share on revenue of $2.07 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG expected a profit of $1.43 per share on revenue of $2.31…

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell : Meta Platforms — Shares of the social media giant rallied more than 4%. Meta Platforms topped revenue and earnings expectations for the recent quarter, posting earnings of $5.16 per share on $39.07 billion in revenue. The company also offered a strong forecast for the current…

This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting in June. Text removed from the June statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle. Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined. Black text appears in both…

A woman browses the meat aisle at a supermarket in Montebello, California, on May 15, 2024. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images A recall of Boar’s Head products has expanded to include a whopping 7 million additional pounds of deli and poultry items in a deadly multistate outbreak of listeria infections. As of…