BECKY QUICK: Welcome back, everybody. Berkshire Hathaway first invested in Japan’s five main “trading houses” just over six years ago, and it consistently increased its position. Berkshire now owns more than 10 percent of each of the top five. And the company’s CEO, Greg Abel, is in Japan right now. He joins us for a…
There’s an old trader saying: “Don’t put on a position that won’t let you sleep at night.” Perpetual futures, known as “perps” in short, are literally designed to do the opposite. Blockchain-enabled, 24/7-traded, never-expiring ‘futures’ – a label now legally contested by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange – are growing so fast overseas that they almost…
A woman holds a “legalize cannabis now” sign outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. Bill Clark | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Marijuana has had a history of highs and lows in the U.S. over the past century — legally, politically and culturally — teetering between vilification and acceptance. Since 1996,…
Inflation data for July takes center stage in the week ahead, as second-quarter earnings season winds down. Another factor that could influence the market action: updates on the Iran war. Though Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said early last week that a deal may be coming , that news never materialized. That’s not to say a…
Photo from Horizon Quantum’s listing ceremony at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City on Friday, March 20, 2026. Quantum computing firms are defying turbulent markets to go public this year, as companies seek to raise funds to capitalize on recent scientific breakthroughs and push the experimental technology closer to commercialization. One such firm, Xanadu…
Shares of Bob’s Discount Furniture barely budged on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after the company priced its initial public offering at $17 per share. That price was within Bob’s expected range of $17 to $19 per share and valued the company at about $2.22 billion. The stock, trading on the NYSE under…
