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Warren Buffett and Greg Abel during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024.CNBCBerkshire Hathaway added a sizeable stake in Delta Air Lines, marking the conglomerate’s return to the airline industry after exiting the sector entirely during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.The Omaha-based company built a position worth more than $2.6 billion, making Delta Berkshire’s 14th-largest holding at the end of March, according to a new regulatory filing.Warren Buffett stunned investors six years ago when he sold Berkshire’s entire equity portfolio of U.S. airlines, including stakes worth more than $4 billion across United, American, Southwest and Delta Air Lines.…

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David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management ramped up several technology and artificial intelligence-related bets in the first quarter, according to a regulatory filing released Thursday. Amazon became Appaloosa’s largest disclosed equity holding at the end of March, valued at roughly $900 million after the hedge fund increased the position by 98% during the quarter. The Miami-based firm also boosted its Uber stake by 242%, raised its Vistra Energy holding by 114% and added 18% to Taiwan Semiconductor . Appaloosa increased its Micron Technology position by 11% and grew its stake in the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWY) . The hedge fund…

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Regional differences The researchers note that aerosols can also contribute to cloud formation, which also causes further losses. But the degree of that contribution is much harder to estimate, so the researchers focus on aerosols for much of the analysis. Some of those aerosols occur naturally, typically from dust kicked up by winds in desert regions. However, despite deserts’ reputation as sunny paradises, the world as a whole hasn’t built much solar infrastructure in the desert yet, so this isn’t as much of a factor as you might expect.  Coal appears to be a major contributor. It’s estimated that sulfur…

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The artificial intelligence rally has already reached historic proportions and is now passing some famous — or rather, infamous — milestones. The SOX semiconductor index has a peak price that’s 62% higher than its 200-day moving average — more than double the spread of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the run-up to Black Monday in 1987, as well as the lead-in to Black Tuesday in 1929, according to a Thursday note from Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett. The spread is closer to the Nasdaq ‘s margin of 55% ahead of the dot-com crash in 2000 when the commercial…

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U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behind, speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersPresident Donald Trump scooped up shares of artificial intelligence software maker Palantir weeks before he famously lauded the stock, with its ticker symbol, on his social media platform Truth Social, according to records released this week by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.The records show thousands of transactions during the first quarter totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, with each trade listed as a price range.During the…

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in front of the American flag to the press as he departs the White House on May 12, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesDemocratic lawmakers on Friday slammed the Trump administration over reports that President Donald Trump would drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in an exchange for what some called a $1.7 billion “slush fund.””This administration is dripping with corruption from top to bottom, but rushing a settlement to steal $1.7 billion taxpayer dollars for a slush fund before a judge can toss your junk lawsuit would…

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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, April 23, 2026.Jeenah Moon | ReutersU.S. Treasury yields spiked on Friday following a week of messy inflation data and as traders looked to price interest rate policy under new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh. The yield on the 30-year bond jumped nearly 12 basis points to yield 5.129%, the highest since May 22, 2025, and nearing the highest since October 2023.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconUS30Y, 1-yearThe yield on the 10-year Treasury note — the main benchmark for U.S. borrowing — surged nearly 14 basis points to 4.595%.Meanwhile, the 2-year Treasury note yield,…

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