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Don’t expect any major breakthroughs from the White House talks.
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Representative Patrick McHenry, Republican of North Carolina, said this weekend that he was feeling a level of “
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The differences between Congress and the Biden administration are vast.
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Republicans want to reduce the country’s $31.4 trillion debt through spending cuts, while the White House views tax increases on companies and wealthy Americans as the best way to reduce the burden.
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In 2011, the S&P 500
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when S&P Global, the ratings agency, downgraded the nation’s credit rating a few days after the Obama administration and Republicans reached a deal. This year, investors seem to be betting that lawmakers will reach a last-minute agreement, or at least temporarily lift the debt ceiling (McHenry
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But Wall Street is getting antsy.
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In recent days, a number of firms, including Bank of America and Goldman Sachs,
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His overall approval rating has fallen to a new low,
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Tucker Carlson is reportedly ready to hit back at Fox News.
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The star conservative anchor plans to enlist allies to
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in order to let him join a rival news outlet or start a new one, according to Axios. Associates of Carlson also accused Fox News of leaking damaging details about him, something the network denies.
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from the attack that left at least nine people dead. The incident underscored both the thinning out of Twitter’s content moderation team and the broader debate within tech companies about which content to leave up in the name of free speech and newsworthiness.
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Neither the Writers Guild of America nor movie and television studios appear ready to
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As tens of thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders flocked to Omaha over the weekend for the conglomerate’s annual meeting, they heard a mix of wariness and optimism from Warren Buffett, the company’s longtime C.E.O.
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During hours of questions from investors, the Oracle of Omaha and his partner, Charlie Munger, talked about everything from the economy to the recent banking crisis and much more.
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Buffett and Munger are feeling downbeat about a lot of things:
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Echoing
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Things could have been worse — “
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catastrophic
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,” even — if U.S. regulators hadn’t assured depositors of Silicon Valley Bank that their money was safe. But even Buffett was feeling wary about how much more fragile the banking system had become. “You don’t know what happened to the stickiness of deposits at all,” he said. “You can have a run in a few seconds.”
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Buffett warned about the current level of government spending: “It’s madness to just keep printing money. It’s very hard to see how you recover once you let the genie out of the bottle, and people lose faith in the currency.”
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But Buffett’s feeling upbeat about some companies.
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He had nothing but praise for Apple, saying it “just happens to be a
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better business than any we own
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.” (Tim Cook, Apple’s chief, was in attendance at the meeting.) And he talked up Occidental Petroleum, in which Berkshire now has a 20 percent stake — though he said he wouldn’t seek to
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Those mixed feelings reflect the picture at Berkshire itself,
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huge jump in first-quarter profits
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thanks to investment gains, but more muted results across its operating businesses. Gains at its Geico insurance division were partially offset by declines at its BNSF railroad, the Berkshire Hathaway Energy utility network and its retail operations, largely because of the economy.
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Meanwhile, Buffett sold $13 billion worth of stock holdings during the quarter, apparently finding little of value in the market — other than Berkshire stock, of which he repurchased $4.4 billion worth.
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And Buffett’s chosen successor shared more of the limelight.
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Greg Abel, who currently runs many of Berkshire’s noninsurance operations,
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drew more attention from investors
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For seven years, the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes kept away from the press she once assiduously courted, as she faced accusations that she had run one of the most prominent start-up frauds in history. Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors out of more than $100 million and sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.
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But Holmes — who now goes by Liz and has forsaken her trademark black turtleneck and even the deep voice she once used —
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Holmes still suggests she wasn’t to blame for everything at Theranos.
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Even her friends are skeptical.
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Having spoken to a list of acquaintances and family that Holmes suggested, Amy writes:
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One of these friends said Ms. Holmes had genuine intentions at Theranos and didn’t deserve a lengthy prison sentence. Then, this person requested anonymity to caution me not to believe everything Ms. Holmes says.
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“being a VC is so easy, so high-status, the money is so great, and the lifestyle is so fun. very dangerous trap that many super talented builders never escape from, until they eventually look back on it all and say ‘damn i’m so unfulfilled.’”
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Sam Altman
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, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, in a tweet. The entrepreneur and investor left his role as chair of the start-up accelerator Y Combinator in 2020 to focus on running the firm behind ChatGPT, the chatbot that has sparked a
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boom in A.I. start-up investing
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Last week, the market focused on jobs data and interest rates. This week, inflation takes center stage with two big reports. Here’s what to watch:
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Today:
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PayPal and KKR announce earnings.
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Tomorrow:
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Airbnb, whose stock has rallied 40 percent this year amid a resurgence in travel, releases earnings; analysts expect another big
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Wednesday:
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Consumer Price Index data is due, with economists forecasting that headline inflation rose 5.5 percent on an annualized basis. Disney reports, and Google is expected to showcase new devices, including
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Thursday:
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The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to try and tame inflation. In the U.S., Producer Price Index data is due.
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THE SPEED READ
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Deals
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Bain Capital is reportedly raising a
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In big-ticket mining M.&A.:
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Barrick Gold
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Rio Tinto
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Regional bank stocks
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rallied in premarket trading
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Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is still
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weighing a presidential bid
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fall into recession
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after reporting worse-than-expected industrial output. (FT)
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Vivek Ramaswamy
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How Chinese companies are finding
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Bluesky may be the hot new social network, but President Biden (and other heads of state)
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