August 16, 2026
Investing

Berkshire trails red-hot S&P 500 by biggest margin so far this year

Berkshire’s widely held B shares are now running 16.3 percentage points behind the benchmark index year-to-date, the biggest gap so far in 2026.

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Rally in chip stocks becomes the most hated in history. Here’s the data

The Micron Memory Japan K.K. booth at the Semicon Japan exhibition in Tokyo, Dec. 18, 2025. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images

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Software stocks are crashing up. Here are the winners

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on May 28, 2026. NYSE The rally in software stocks has gone from recovery to

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There’s a record disconnect unfolding in the trading pits right now

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on May 28, 2026. NYSE Forget a tale of two cities, it’s two different worlds

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Mike Khouw: I was wrong about Zscaler. Here’s how I’m managing the trade

Warren Buffett’s maxim to “be greedy when others are fearful” is among the most quoted pieces of investment wisdom, but contrarianism is not

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Drone stocks surge on report Pentagon considering stakes in the industry

Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty Images Drone stocks surged Thursday on a report the Trump administration is in talks to fund several

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CFTC sues Rhode Island over actions against prediction markets

Screens displaying the logo and homepage of prediction market platform Polymarket in Saint-Mande, east of Paris, April 29, 2026. Martin Lelievre | Afp

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States have lost $1 billion due to prediction markets: Gaming association

The American Gaming Association now estimates that states have missed out on more than $1 billion in tax revenue due to the rise

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Google employee polymarket insider trading

Signage at the Situation Room by Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 20, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg |

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New bull market in software stocks hinges on this report

Options traders are convinced the “SaaS-pocalypse” is over. Whether that’s true will likely depend on the market’s reaction to Salesforce earnings after the

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