Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025. CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced Thursday it reached a deal to buy Occidental Petroleum’s petrochemical unit, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion in cash. The deal marks Berkshire’s largest since 2022, when it paid $11.6 billion for insurer Alleghany….
CrowdStrike , already one of our best stocks this year, has more room to run, according to Jim Cramer and a major Wall Street firm. Wells Fargo on Wednesday added CrowdStrike to its “tactical ideas list” and raised its price target to $600 a share from $550, implying more than 22% upside from the stock’s…
VIDEO ID CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday said that while headlines continue to swirl around the government shutdown, investors should be paying closer attention to the story the market just finished telling. However, he cautioned that the biggest gains of the year may have passed. “You can tell an awful lot about a market by…
A new BlackRock deal could wisely position the asset manager to capitalize on surging demand for power as the generative AI boom shows no signs of slowing down. The news Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the infrastructure fund manager purchased by BlackRock, is nearing a $38 billion deal to acquire renewable power company AES , according to…
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Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2025. CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is closing in on a deal to buy Occidental Petroleum’s petrochemical unit OxyChem for roughly $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The potential deal, which could finalize within days per the…
My top 10 things to watch Tuesday, Sept. 30 1. Wall Street was heading for a slightly lower open as the prospect of a government shutdown loomed. House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNBC that Democrats should “do the right thing” and pass a clean stopgap funding measure. Federal funding runs out today, risking a shutdown…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday told investors why he believes that a government shutdown won’t have a major effect on the market, looking back at how stocks have reacted to shutdowns in the past. He said his primary concern is that the shutdown will delay the release of key economic data that informs the Federal…
US businesswoman Charlie Javice (L), founder of Frank, arrives for her sentencing hearing at federal court in Manhattan on Sept. 29, 2025, in New York City. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images Charlie Javice, founder of a startup acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2021 for $175 million, was sentenced to just over seven years in prison Monday…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday pushed back against the narrative that Wall Street’s fervor for artificial intelligence is the same as the dotcom bubble of 2000, saying there are major differences in terms of the quality and funding of the current Big Tech stocks that are leading the market to new heights. “Speaking as an…
