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2022-11-30
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Why Is the BHP Share Price Smashing the Market With a 22% Gain in November?
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2022-04-06
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@ToughCoyote:Buy-back of Chinese stocks:harvesting trap by Wall Street?
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2022-03-15
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Singapore Shares Buck Regional Trend, STI up 0.12%
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2022-03-09
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U.S. Probes Options Trade Gained on Microsoft-Activision Deal - WSJ
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2022-03-05
Thank you.
@OptionsDelta:Update another trading opportunity
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2022-03-02
Wait till it drops further then buy.
Amazon Stock: Should You Buy It in March?
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2022-02-27
Up
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2022-02-27
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2022-02-26
Wonderful...finally stocks bounded !!!
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Tulip123
2022-02-25
Pity I didn't buy.
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2022-02-25
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2022-02-24
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2022-02-24
Hope there is a rainbow
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2022-02-23
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2022-02-23
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2022-02-22
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2022-02-21
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2022-02-18
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Fears continue to dog stock markets that lockdowns could spread, which would severely impact China's growth,\" said Oanda Asia-Pacific senior market analyst Jeffrey Halley.Hong Kong tech firms led another sharp equity sell-off with the Hang Seng Index ending the day 5.72 per cent lower. Elsewhere, South Korea's Kospi slipped 0.91 per cent; the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index was down 0.64 while the Jakarta Composite Index dipped 0.49 per cent.Japan's Nikkei 225, on the other hand, was up 0.15 per cent as inflation fears receded following a retreat in oil prices.Across the Singapore market, decliners outpaced advancers 326 to 179. Some 1.67 billion securities worth S$1.54 billion changed hands.Among the STI constituents, DBS DBS: D05 +2.2% and UOB UOB: U11 +1.43% were the top-performing stocks. DBS was up 2.2 per cent or S$0.73 to S$33.89 and UOB rose 1.4 per cent or S$0.43 to S$30.53. OCBC OCBC Bank: O39 0% ended the day flat at S$11.70.At the bottom of the table was Hongkong Land HongkongLand USD: H78 -4.16% which fell 4.2 per cent or US$0.21 to US$4.84.The most heavily traded counter on the blue-chip index was Thai Beverage ThaiBev: Y92 0% with over 64 million shares changing hands. 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"We acted on no information of any kind from anyone. It is <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> of those coincidences."</p><p>In January, Microsoft announced plans to buy Activision the "Call of Duty" maker for $68.7 billion in the biggest gaming industry deal in history.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>U.S. Probes Options Trade Gained on Microsoft-Activision Deal - WSJ</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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"We acted on no information of any kind from anyone. 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See:<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/TW/9033088489\" target=\"_blank\">This week's earnings strategy: COST, CRM and BILI</a> <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CRM\">$Salesforce(CRM)$</a> has not skyrocketed, however, the call exercise date is far away, so the opening and closing of the position stopped the loss of a few dollars; <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BLBLF\">$Bilibili Inc.(BLBLF)$</a> after the release of earnings surge, but from the strike price has a certain distance, is expected to open test volatility surge can earn a few dollars; <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/COST\">$Costco(COST)$</a> has risen for several days as expected and is now profitable. Now I have a new idea. I was going to close out costco before earnings,","listText":"Here's a rundown of three earnings reports this week. See:<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/TW/9033088489\" target=\"_blank\">This week's earnings strategy: COST, CRM and BILI</a> <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CRM\">$Salesforce(CRM)$</a> has not skyrocketed, however, the call exercise date is far away, so the opening and closing of the position stopped the loss of a few dollars; <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BLBLF\">$Bilibili Inc.(BLBLF)$</a> after the release of earnings surge, but from the strike price has a certain distance, is expected to open test volatility surge can earn a few dollars; <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/COST\">$Costco(COST)$</a> has risen for several days as expected and is now profitable. Now I have a new idea. I was going to close out costco before earnings,","text":"Here's a rundown of three earnings reports this week. See:This week's earnings strategy: COST, CRM and BILI $Salesforce(CRM)$ has not skyrocketed, however, the call exercise date is far away, so the opening and closing of the position stopped the loss of a few dollars; $Bilibili Inc.(BLBLF)$ after the release of earnings surge, but from the strike price has a certain distance, is expected to open test volatility surge can earn a few dollars; $Costco(COST)$ has risen for several days as expected and is now profitable. Now I have a new idea. I was going to close out costco before earnings,","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":2,"essential":2,"paper":2,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9033546945","isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":0,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":736,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9033051857,"gmtCreate":1646172860513,"gmtModify":1676534097227,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wait till it drops further then buy.","listText":"Wait till it drops further then buy.","text":"Wait till it drops further then buy.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9033051857","repostId":"1193211163","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1193211163","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1646141907,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1193211163?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-03-01 21:38","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Amazon Stock: Should You Buy It in March?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1193211163","media":"TheStreet","summary":"Itās been nearly a month since Amazon released its 2021 earnings. The company has regained some of i","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Itās been nearly a month since Amazon released its 2021 earnings. The company has regained some of its market value, but it's still far from historical highs. Time to buy?</p><p>AmazonāsĀ fourth-quarter earnings report surprised even the most bearish analysts. On February 3, the company reported significant increases, mostly thanks to its cloud segment, AWS, and its RivianĀ stake.</p><p>The company's e-commerce segment also presented surprisingly good results ā consequences of a good holiday season ā that eased fears of a retail slowdown. Add to that results from advertising and a Prime membership price hike and it's hard not to be optimistic.</p><p>So is now the best time to buy some AMZN?</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/547af4fbd13339569d02c976bd91d8b4\" tg-width=\"1240\" tg-height=\"827\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/><span>Figure 1: Amazon Stock: Should You Buy It in March?</span></p><p><b>Quick Gains From Amazon?</b></p><p>If 2021 taught us anything, it's that a good investment isn't actually "good" until the market realizes it is.</p><p>So did investors who bought the Amazon dip last year make a good investment? In my opinion, absolutely. Amazon is a massive company with great growth potential, and it was (and still is) far below Wall Streetās price target.</p><p>However, it's also true that investors who bought the dip last year didnāt make any real gains. And unless Amazon presents us with some rock-solid growth prospects in the first quarter of 2022, I donāt think buying AMZN in March will quickly convert into massive returns.</p><p>Amazon's stock price seems to be more sensitive to e-commerce growth than it is to any of its other segments. And the performance of the retail industry this year is currently anything but clear. On top of ongoing supply-chain constraints and labor shortages, the war between Russia and Ukraine mightĀ make U.S. inflation even worse than predicted.</p><p><b>Good Enough for Warren Buffett</b></p><p>I like to hope that, when I buy a stock, my bullishness isĀ similar to Warren BuffettāsĀ ā even though he wasnāt personally responsible for adding AMZN into Berkshireās portfolio.</p><p>According to WhaleWisdomās estimates, Buffettās team paid an average of $1,792 per share for Amazon three years ago. Portfolio managers could sell shares today at $3,075 each and gain over 71% on their investment. That's quite decent. The fact that Berkshire is still long on AMZN tells me it believes in the company's long-term potential.</p><p><b>Wall Streetās Perspective</b></p><p>Many top Wall Street firms believe Amazon will start recovering its mojo by the second half of 2022. After Amazonās last earnings report, Goldman Sachsā Eric Sheridan said the company produced a "solid set of results and addressed directly many of the key investor debates in the past few months," reaffirming it asĀ Goldmanās 2022 top pick.</p><p>Based on the 29 TipRanks analysis covering AMZN, Amazon is a unanimous strong buy. Their current price targets range between $3,600 and $5,000, with an average of $4,200, implying a 37% upside.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Amazon Stock: Should You Buy It in March?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAmazon Stock: Should You Buy It in March?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-03-01 21:38 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.thestreet.com/amazon/stock/amazon-stock-should-you-buy-it-in-march><strong>TheStreet</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Itās been nearly a month since Amazon released its 2021 earnings. The company has regained some of its market value, but it's still far from historical highs. Time to buy?AmazonāsĀ fourth-quarter ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.thestreet.com/amazon/stock/amazon-stock-should-you-buy-it-in-march\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMZN":"äŗ马é"},"source_url":"https://www.thestreet.com/amazon/stock/amazon-stock-should-you-buy-it-in-march","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1193211163","content_text":"Itās been nearly a month since Amazon released its 2021 earnings. The company has regained some of its market value, but it's still far from historical highs. Time to buy?AmazonāsĀ fourth-quarter earnings report surprised even the most bearish analysts. On February 3, the company reported significant increases, mostly thanks to its cloud segment, AWS, and its RivianĀ stake.The company's e-commerce segment also presented surprisingly good results ā consequences of a good holiday season ā that eased fears of a retail slowdown. Add to that results from advertising and a Prime membership price hike and it's hard not to be optimistic.So is now the best time to buy some AMZN?Figure 1: Amazon Stock: Should You Buy It in March?Quick Gains From Amazon?If 2021 taught us anything, it's that a good investment isn't actually \"good\" until the market realizes it is.So did investors who bought the Amazon dip last year make a good investment? In my opinion, absolutely. Amazon is a massive company with great growth potential, and it was (and still is) far below Wall Streetās price target.However, it's also true that investors who bought the dip last year didnāt make any real gains. And unless Amazon presents us with some rock-solid growth prospects in the first quarter of 2022, I donāt think buying AMZN in March will quickly convert into massive returns.Amazon's stock price seems to be more sensitive to e-commerce growth than it is to any of its other segments. And the performance of the retail industry this year is currently anything but clear. On top of ongoing supply-chain constraints and labor shortages, the war between Russia and Ukraine mightĀ make U.S. inflation even worse than predicted.Good Enough for Warren BuffettI like to hope that, when I buy a stock, my bullishness isĀ similar to Warren BuffettāsĀ ā even though he wasnāt personally responsible for adding AMZN into Berkshireās portfolio.According to WhaleWisdomās estimates, Buffettās team paid an average of $1,792 per share for Amazon three years ago. Portfolio managers could sell shares today at $3,075 each and gain over 71% on their investment. That's quite decent. The fact that Berkshire is still long on AMZN tells me it believes in the company's long-term potential.Wall Streetās PerspectiveMany top Wall Street firms believe Amazon will start recovering its mojo by the second half of 2022. After Amazonās last earnings report, Goldman Sachsā Eric Sheridan said the company produced a \"solid set of results and addressed directly many of the key investor debates in the past few months,\" reaffirming it asĀ Goldmanās 2022 top pick.Based on the 29 TipRanks analysis covering AMZN, Amazon is a unanimous strong buy. Their current price targets range between $3,600 and $5,000, with an average of $4,200, implying a 37% upside.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":612,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9039323771,"gmtCreate":1645927963616,"gmtModify":1676534075381,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Up ","listText":"Up ","text":"Up","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9039323771","repostId":"1191102724","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1191102724","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1645799616,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1191102724?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-25 22:33","market":"us","language":"en","title":"U.S. Stocks Edge Higher Friday, Building on Thursdayās Sharp Reversal","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1191102724","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Stocks rose Friday, erasing losses earlier in the session, as investors continued to assess the fina","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Stocks rose Friday, erasing losses earlier in the session, as investors continued to assess the financial risks stemming fromĀ Russiaās invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average added about 130 points, or 0.4%. The S&P 500 inched up 0.3% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.1%.</p><p>āWith a broader Russian invasion of Ukraine underway, the potential geopolitical, economic, and asset implications of the conflict between Russia and the West over Ukraine are once again Top of Mind,ā Goldman Sachsā Allison Nathan said in a note.</p><p>Russia is closing inon the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials. The capital had been hit by āhorrific Russian rocket strikes,ā Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. That came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony BlinkenĀ told CBSĀ that Kyiv ācould well be under siegeā soon.</p><p>Market sentiment got a boost after multiple reports thatĀ Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to send a delegationĀ to Belarusian capital Minsk for negotiations with Ukraine.</p><p>European Union leaders are discussing imposing sanctions on any European assets held by Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, two sources told CNBCās Silvia Amaro. It is not clear whether Putin or Lavrov own any significant assets in the EU.</p><p>On the data front, theĀ core personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserveās primary inflation gauge, rose 5.2% from a year ago, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected a 5.1% print.</p><p>Government bond yields were slightly higher Friday after falling Thursday. Yields move opposite prices. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield on Friday rose above 2%, before easing to the 1.97% level.</p><p>Etsy shares rose more than 16% in the premarket after the online marketplaceās quarterly results beat analyst estimates.</p><p>Shares of Beyond Meat tumbled more than 8% in early morning trading Friday after the alternative meat producerĀ reported a wider-than-expected lossĀ and shrinking revenue for its fourth quarter.</p><p>āRussia invading Ukraine has added to an already tense year, with investors selling first and asking questions later,ā said LPL Financial Chief Market Strategist Ryan Detrick. āBut it is important to know that past major geopolitical events were usually short-term market issues, especially if the economy was on solid footing.ā</p><p>The major averages are on track for their third negative week in a row amid escalated geopolitical tensions and worries over monetary policy. The Dow is down 2.5% this week, on pace for its worst weekly performance since Jan. 21. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have fallen 1.5% and 0.6% this week, respectively.</p><p>All three averages are still in correction territory, or down 10% or more from their respective record highs. The Nasdaq opened Thursdayās session in bear market territory, down more than 20% from its record high in November</p><p>āWhile there may be some additional volatility in the short term, these dislocation events historically present opportunities, as long as recession doesnāt follow,ā said Cliff Hodge, CIO at Cornerstone Wealth. āHigher energy prices will also support sticky inflation which may keep pressure on the Fed to stay on course.ā</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>U.S. Stocks Edge Higher Friday, Building on Thursdayās Sharp Reversal</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nU.S. Stocks Edge Higher Friday, Building on Thursdayās Sharp Reversal\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2022-02-25 22:33</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>Stocks rose Friday, erasing losses earlier in the session, as investors continued to assess the financial risks stemming fromĀ Russiaās invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average added about 130 points, or 0.4%. The S&P 500 inched up 0.3% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.1%.</p><p>āWith a broader Russian invasion of Ukraine underway, the potential geopolitical, economic, and asset implications of the conflict between Russia and the West over Ukraine are once again Top of Mind,ā Goldman Sachsā Allison Nathan said in a note.</p><p>Russia is closing inon the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials. The capital had been hit by āhorrific Russian rocket strikes,ā Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. That came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony BlinkenĀ told CBSĀ that Kyiv ācould well be under siegeā soon.</p><p>Market sentiment got a boost after multiple reports thatĀ Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to send a delegationĀ to Belarusian capital Minsk for negotiations with Ukraine.</p><p>European Union leaders are discussing imposing sanctions on any European assets held by Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, two sources told CNBCās Silvia Amaro. It is not clear whether Putin or Lavrov own any significant assets in the EU.</p><p>On the data front, theĀ core personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserveās primary inflation gauge, rose 5.2% from a year ago, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected a 5.1% print.</p><p>Government bond yields were slightly higher Friday after falling Thursday. Yields move opposite prices. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield on Friday rose above 2%, before easing to the 1.97% level.</p><p>Etsy shares rose more than 16% in the premarket after the online marketplaceās quarterly results beat analyst estimates.</p><p>Shares of Beyond Meat tumbled more than 8% in early morning trading Friday after the alternative meat producerĀ reported a wider-than-expected lossĀ and shrinking revenue for its fourth quarter.</p><p>āRussia invading Ukraine has added to an already tense year, with investors selling first and asking questions later,ā said LPL Financial Chief Market Strategist Ryan Detrick. āBut it is important to know that past major geopolitical events were usually short-term market issues, especially if the economy was on solid footing.ā</p><p>The major averages are on track for their third negative week in a row amid escalated geopolitical tensions and worries over monetary policy. The Dow is down 2.5% this week, on pace for its worst weekly performance since Jan. 21. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have fallen 1.5% and 0.6% this week, respectively.</p><p>All three averages are still in correction territory, or down 10% or more from their respective record highs. The Nasdaq opened Thursdayās session in bear market territory, down more than 20% from its record high in November</p><p>āWhile there may be some additional volatility in the short term, these dislocation events historically present opportunities, as long as recession doesnāt follow,ā said Cliff Hodge, CIO at Cornerstone Wealth. āHigher energy prices will also support sticky inflation which may keep pressure on the Fed to stay on course.ā</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"éē¼ęÆ",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1191102724","content_text":"Stocks rose Friday, erasing losses earlier in the session, as investors continued to assess the financial risks stemming fromĀ Russiaās invasion of Ukraine.The Dow Jones Industrial Average added about 130 points, or 0.4%. The S&P 500 inched up 0.3% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.1%.āWith a broader Russian invasion of Ukraine underway, the potential geopolitical, economic, and asset implications of the conflict between Russia and the West over Ukraine are once again Top of Mind,ā Goldman Sachsā Allison Nathan said in a note.Russia is closing inon the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials. The capital had been hit by āhorrific Russian rocket strikes,ā Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. That came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony BlinkenĀ told CBSĀ that Kyiv ācould well be under siegeā soon.Market sentiment got a boost after multiple reports thatĀ Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to send a delegationĀ to Belarusian capital Minsk for negotiations with Ukraine.European Union leaders are discussing imposing sanctions on any European assets held by Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, two sources told CNBCās Silvia Amaro. It is not clear whether Putin or Lavrov own any significant assets in the EU.On the data front, theĀ core personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserveās primary inflation gauge, rose 5.2% from a year ago, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected a 5.1% print.Government bond yields were slightly higher Friday after falling Thursday. Yields move opposite prices. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield on Friday rose above 2%, before easing to the 1.97% level.Etsy shares rose more than 16% in the premarket after the online marketplaceās quarterly results beat analyst estimates.Shares of Beyond Meat tumbled more than 8% in early morning trading Friday after the alternative meat producerĀ reported a wider-than-expected lossĀ and shrinking revenue for its fourth quarter.āRussia invading Ukraine has added to an already tense year, with investors selling first and asking questions later,ā said LPL Financial Chief Market Strategist Ryan Detrick. āBut it is important to know that past major geopolitical events were usually short-term market issues, especially if the economy was on solid footing.āThe major averages are on track for their third negative week in a row amid escalated geopolitical tensions and worries over monetary policy. The Dow is down 2.5% this week, on pace for its worst weekly performance since Jan. 21. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have fallen 1.5% and 0.6% this week, respectively.All three averages are still in correction territory, or down 10% or more from their respective record highs. The Nasdaq opened Thursdayās session in bear market territory, down more than 20% from its record high in NovemberāWhile there may be some additional volatility in the short term, these dislocation events historically present opportunities, as long as recession doesnāt follow,ā said Cliff Hodge, CIO at Cornerstone Wealth. āHigher energy prices will also support sticky inflation which may keep pressure on the Fed to stay on course.ā","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":595,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9039320009,"gmtCreate":1645927631061,"gmtModify":1676534075300,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great!!!! 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The 91-yea","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses heās assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading āOur Four Giantsā and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshireās cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>āTim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well,ā the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cookās stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone makerās earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>āApple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,ā Buffett said in the letter. āThat increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.ā</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffettās investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshireās equity portfolio.</p><p>āItās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,ā Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Appleās largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>āBNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,ā Buffett said. āBHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.ā</p><p><b>Read the full letter hereļ¼</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 ā K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that ā on occasion ā it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>ā¢ Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based āinfrastructureā assets ā classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment ā than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshireās balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>ā¢ Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. āI gave at the officeā is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshireās history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that āThe combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.ā That upbeat view was endorsed by the companyās advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>Iām sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshireās owners watched the companyās net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshireās struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshireās troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period ā a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshireās owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their āsilent partner,ā the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge ā indeed trumpet ā the fact that Berkshireās prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>ā¢ From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance āfloatā ā money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshireās total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (āgenerally-accepted accounting principlesā) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshireās good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, āNone.ā</p><p>I said, āNobodyās perfect,ā and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be ā 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely ā but far from assured ā that Berkshireās float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer ā and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>ā¢ Nevertheless, operations of our āBig Fourā companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshireās value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshireās operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>ā¢ Apple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.</p><p>Itās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well.</p><p>ā¢ BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, Americaās carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive āadjustmentsā to earnings ā to use a polite description ā have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>ā¢ BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. Thatās up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHEās record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokolās and Greg Abelās leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Gregās report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable āgreen-washingā stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHEās website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now letās talk about companies we donāt control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshireās two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the āequityā method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted āequityā accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilotās earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshireās balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 1ļ¤2 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% ā and still is. Berkshireās current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshireās controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshireās resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>Thatās largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshireās owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moodyās).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We donāt want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost ofĀ $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshireās buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As weāve discussed, insurance āfloatā of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of āfloatā per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% ā going from $79,387 per āAā share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life ā in both his business and his personal pursuits ā Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaledĀ $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friendās early death and the disastrous results that followed for that manās family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative āsynergiesā ā savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirerās home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled ā aptly so ā a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an āexit strategy.ā And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying ā in far more tactful phrasing than this ā āAfter a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.ā So, I made an offer and Paul said āYes.ā One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, āWe can talk about that next year, Warren; Iām too busy now.ā</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paulās memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTIās first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary ā geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck ā occasionally extraordinary luck ā has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend ā John Roach ā TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiaryās CEO and learn more about the acquireeās activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroadās headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our boardās opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSFās third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroadās results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSFās earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasnāt feeling friendly to railroads ā or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here Iāll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadnāt sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally āretiringā from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandsonās fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that āsecretsā are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be āworking.ā</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfatherās grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now āworkedā for many decades with people whom we like and trust. Itās a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people ā no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we canāt select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching ātil death do us part.ā Often, they have trusted us with a largeĀ ā some might say excessive ā portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the āpartnersā Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, āIt feels good to āworkā for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.ā</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. āCousinā Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon āpartyā boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmyās masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his familyās use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses heās assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading āOur Four Giantsā and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshireās cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>āTim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well,ā the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cookās stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone makerās earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>āApple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,ā Buffett said in the letter. āThat increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.ā</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffettās investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshireās equity portfolio.</p><p>āItās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,ā Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Appleās largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>āBNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,ā Buffett said. āBHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.ā</p><p><b>Read the full letter hereļ¼</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 ā K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that ā on occasion ā it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>ā¢ Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based āinfrastructureā assets ā classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment ā than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshireās balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>ā¢ Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. āI gave at the officeā is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshireās history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that āThe combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.ā That upbeat view was endorsed by the companyās advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>Iām sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshireās owners watched the companyās net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshireās struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshireās troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period ā a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshireās owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their āsilent partner,ā the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge ā indeed trumpet ā the fact that Berkshireās prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>ā¢ From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance āfloatā ā money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshireās total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (āgenerally-accepted accounting principlesā) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshireās good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, āNone.ā</p><p>I said, āNobodyās perfect,ā and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be ā 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely ā but far from assured ā that Berkshireās float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer ā and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>ā¢ Nevertheless, operations of our āBig Fourā companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshireās value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshireās operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>ā¢ Apple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.</p><p>Itās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well.</p><p>ā¢ BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, Americaās carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive āadjustmentsā to earnings ā to use a polite description ā have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>ā¢ BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. Thatās up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHEās record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokolās and Greg Abelās leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Gregās report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable āgreen-washingā stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHEās website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now letās talk about companies we donāt control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshireās two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the āequityā method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted āequityā accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilotās earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshireās balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 1ļ¤2 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% ā and still is. Berkshireās current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshireās controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshireās resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>Thatās largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshireās owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moodyās).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We donāt want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost ofĀ $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshireās buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As weāve discussed, insurance āfloatā of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of āfloatā per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% ā going from $79,387 per āAā share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life ā in both his business and his personal pursuits ā Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaledĀ $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friendās early death and the disastrous results that followed for that manās family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative āsynergiesā ā savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirerās home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled ā aptly so ā a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an āexit strategy.ā And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying ā in far more tactful phrasing than this ā āAfter a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.ā So, I made an offer and Paul said āYes.ā One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, āWe can talk about that next year, Warren; Iām too busy now.ā</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paulās memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTIās first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary ā geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck ā occasionally extraordinary luck ā has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend ā John Roach ā TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiaryās CEO and learn more about the acquireeās activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroadās headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our boardās opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSFās third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroadās results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSFās earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasnāt feeling friendly to railroads ā or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here Iāll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadnāt sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally āretiringā from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandsonās fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that āsecretsā are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be āworking.ā</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfatherās grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now āworkedā for many decades with people whom we like and trust. Itās a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people ā no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we canāt select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching ātil death do us part.ā Often, they have trusted us with a largeĀ ā some might say excessive ā portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the āpartnersā Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, āIt feels good to āworkā for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.ā</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. āCousinā Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon āpartyā boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmyās masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his familyās use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. Buffett Chairman of the Board</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BRK.A":"ä¼Æå åøå°","BRK.B":"ä¼Æå åøå°B"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1125580913","content_text":"Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses heās assembled over the last five decades.In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading āOur Four Giantsā and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshireās cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.āTim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well,ā the letter stated.Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cookās stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone makerās earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.āApple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,ā Buffett said in the letter. āThat increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.āBerkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffettās investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshireās equity portfolio.āItās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,ā Buffett said.Berkshire is Appleās largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.āBNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,ā Buffett said. āBHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.āRead the full letter hereļ¼To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 ā K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.What You OwnBerkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that ā on occasion ā it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.Surprise, SurpriseHere are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:ā¢ Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based āinfrastructureā assets ā classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment ā than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshireās balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.ā¢ Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. āI gave at the officeā is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.Berkshireās history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that āThe combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.ā That upbeat view was endorsed by the companyās advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).Iām sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.In the nine years following the merger, Berkshireās owners watched the companyās net worth crater from$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshireās struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshireās troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period ā a pathetic $100 per day.Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.Berkshireās owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their āsilent partner,ā the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge ā indeed trumpet ā the fact that Berkshireās prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.ā¢ From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance āfloatā ā money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshireās total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (āgenerally-accepted accounting principlesā) presentation of earnings and net worth.Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshireās good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, āNone.āI said, āNobodyās perfect,ā and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be ā 35 years later.One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely ā but far from assured ā that Berkshireās float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer ā and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.Our Four GiantsThrough Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.ā¢ Nevertheless, operations of our āBig Fourā companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshireās value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshireās operation, however, would be almost impossible.ā¢ Apple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.Itās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well.ā¢ BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, Americaās carbon emissions would soar.Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive āadjustmentsā to earnings ā to use a polite description ā have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.ā¢ BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. Thatās up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.BHEās record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokolās and Greg Abelās leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.Gregās report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable āgreen-washingā stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.To further review this information, visit BHEās website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.InvestmentsNow letās talk about companies we donāt control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshireās two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the āequityā method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted āequityā accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilotās earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.U.S. Treasury BillsBerkshireās balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 1ļ¤2 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.But $144 billion?That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% ā and still is. Berkshireās current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.Share RepurchasesThere are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshireās controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshireās resources.Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.Thatās largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshireās owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moodyās).I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We donāt want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost ofĀ $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.It should be noted that Berkshireās buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As weāve discussed, insurance āfloatā of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of āfloatā per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% ā going from $79,387 per āAā share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful BusinessLast year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life ā in both his business and his personal pursuits ā Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaledĀ $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friendās early death and the disastrous results that followed for that manās family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative āsynergiesā ā savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirerās home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled ā aptly so ā a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an āexit strategy.ā And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying ā in far more tactful phrasing than this ā āAfter a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.ā So, I made an offer and Paul said āYes.ā One meeting; one lunch; one deal.To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, āWe can talk about that next year, Warren; Iām too busy now.āWhen Greg Abel and I attended Paulās memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTIās first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary ā geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.In all ways, Paul was a class act.* * * * * * * * * * * *Good luck ā occasionally extraordinary luck ā has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend ā John Roach ā TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiaryās CEO and learn more about the acquireeās activities.In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroadās headquarters.Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our boardās opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSFās third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.The market reacted badly to the railroadās results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSFās earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasnāt feeling friendly to railroads ā or much else.On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here Iāll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadnāt sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.ThanksI taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally āretiringā from that pursuit in 2018.Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandsonās fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that āsecretsā are catnip to kids.Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be āworking.āCharlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfatherās grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now āworkedā for many decades with people whom we like and trust. Itās a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people ā no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction workingfor you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.Obviously, we canāt select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching ātil death do us part.ā Often, they have trusted us with a largeĀ ā some might say excessive ā portion of their savings.Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.Long-term individual owners are both the āpartnersā Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, āIt feels good to āworkā for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.āThe Annual MeetingClear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.I will end this letter with a sales pitch. āCousinā Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon āpartyā boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmyās masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his familyās use. Join me.February 26, 2022Warren E. Buffett Chairman of the Board","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":705,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9039037321,"gmtCreate":1645840261020,"gmtModify":1676534069331,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wonderful...finally stocks bounded !!!","listText":"Wonderful...finally stocks bounded !!!","text":"Wonderful...finally stocks bounded !!!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9039037321","repostId":"2214433184","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2214433184","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1645830512,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2214433184?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-26 07:08","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Dow Posts Biggest Gain since Nov 2020 as Wall St Rebounds Second Day","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2214433184","media":"Reuters","summary":"* All sectors higher, led by gains in materials* Oil prices ease* Indexes: Dow up 2.5%, S&P 500 up 2.2%, Nasdaq up 1.6% (Updates close with volume, additional quotes, details)The Dow on Friday registe","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>* All sectors higher, led by gains in materials</p><p>* Oil prices ease</p><p>* Indexes: Dow up 2.5%, S&P 500 up 2.2%, Nasdaq up 1.6% (Updates close with volume, additional quotes, details)</p><p>The Dow on Friday registered its biggest daily percentage gain since November 2020 with the market rebounding for a second day from the sharp selloff leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>Oil prices fell below $100 a barrel, easing some concerns about higher energy costs, and all 11 of the major S&P 500 sectors ended up on the day. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also posted gains for the week.</p><p>Russian missiles pounded Kyiv and families cowered in shelters on Friday, a day after Russia unleashed a three-pronged invasion of Ukraine in the biggest attack on a European state since World War <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TWOA.U\">Two</a>.</p><p>Investors also were assessing news that Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a call that Russia was willing to hold high-level talks with Ukraine, according to China's foreign ministry.</p><p>Some strategists say stock-selling may have been overdone. The S&P 500 confirmed earlier this week it was in a correction when it ended down more than 10% from its Jan. 3 record closing high.</p><p>"It sure feels a lot more like we've really exhausted sentiment in this correction," said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group in Minneapolis, noting that economic fundamentals and corporate health remain favorable.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 834.92 points, or 2.51%, to 34,058.75, the S&P 500 gained 95.95 points, or 2.24%, to 4,384.65 and the Nasdaq Composite added 221.04 points, or 1.64%, to 13,694.62.</p><p>For the week, the Dow was down 0.1%, the S&P 500 was up 0.8% and the Nasdaq was up 1.1%.</p><p>The West on Thursday unveiled new sanctions on Russia, while NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday the alliance was deploying parts of its combat-ready response force and would continue to send weapons to Ukraine.</p><p>"In general, the sanctions are going to have some bite," but investors seem to be relieved that Washington dismissed the idea of going to war with Russia, said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco.</p><p>She said volatility should remain high in the coming days as events in Ukraine dictate market moves, but that focus eventually will turn back to the Federal Reserve and the outlook for interest rates.</p><p>Some strategists noted that the sanctions announced Thursday targeted Russia's banks but left its energy sector largely untouched.</p><p>Health care gave the S&P 500 its biggest boost.</p><p>Shares of Johnson & Johnson climbed 5% after a U.S. judge ruled that the drugmaker's subsidiary can remain in bankruptcy, preventing plaintiffs from pursuing 38,000 lawsuits against the company alleging its baby powder and other talc products cause cancer.</p><p>The Cboe Volatility index, Wall Street's fear gauge, ended down at 27.59.</p><p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 4.29-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.63-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 15 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 39 new highs and 66 new lows.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 12.47 billion shares, compared with the 12.1 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.</p></body></html>","source":"yahoofinance","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Dow Posts Biggest Gain since Nov 2020 as Wall St Rebounds Second Day</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also posted gains for the week.Russian missiles pounded Kyiv and families cowered in shelters on Friday, a day after Russia unleashed a three-pronged invasion of Ukraine in the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two.Investors also were assessing news that Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a call that Russia was willing to hold high-level talks with Ukraine, according to China's foreign ministry.Some strategists say stock-selling may have been overdone. The S&P 500 confirmed earlier this week it was in a correction when it ended down more than 10% from its Jan. 3 record closing high.\"It sure feels a lot more like we've really exhausted sentiment in this correction,\" said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group in Minneapolis, noting that economic fundamentals and corporate health remain favorable.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 834.92 points, or 2.51%, to 34,058.75, the S&P 500 gained 95.95 points, or 2.24%, to 4,384.65 and the Nasdaq Composite added 221.04 points, or 1.64%, to 13,694.62.For the week, the Dow was down 0.1%, the S&P 500 was up 0.8% and the Nasdaq was up 1.1%.The West on Thursday unveiled new sanctions on Russia, while NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday the alliance was deploying parts of its combat-ready response force and would continue to send weapons to Ukraine.\"In general, the sanctions are going to have some bite,\" but investors seem to be relieved that Washington dismissed the idea of going to war with Russia, said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco.She said volatility should remain high in the coming days as events in Ukraine dictate market moves, but that focus eventually will turn back to the Federal Reserve and the outlook for interest rates.Some strategists noted that the sanctions announced Thursday targeted Russia's banks but left its energy sector largely untouched.Health care gave the S&P 500 its biggest boost.Shares of Johnson & Johnson climbed 5% after a U.S. judge ruled that the drugmaker's subsidiary can remain in bankruptcy, preventing plaintiffs from pursuing 38,000 lawsuits against the company alleging its baby powder and other talc products cause cancer.The Cboe Volatility index, Wall Street's fear gauge, ended down at 27.59.Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 4.29-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.63-to-1 ratio favored advancers.The S&P 500 posted 15 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 39 new highs and 66 new lows.Volume on U.S. exchanges was 12.47 billion shares, compared with the 12.1 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":583,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9030238641,"gmtCreate":1645740206403,"gmtModify":1676534058115,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Pity I didn't buy.","listText":"Pity I didn't buy.","text":"Pity I didn't buy.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9030238641","repostId":"1165158876","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1165158876","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1645715461,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1165158876?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-24 23:11","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Oil Stocks to Buy as Russia-Ukraine Fears Ignite Oil Prices","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1165158876","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"President Joe Biden hasconfirmedthat we have seen the beginning of Russiaās invasion of Ukraine. The eyes of the world remain on the small nation as Western economic powerslevy sanctionsagainst its mu","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>President Joe Biden hasĀ confirmedĀ that we have seen the beginning of Russiaās invasion of Ukraine. The eyes of the world remain on the small nation as Western economic powersĀ levy sanctionsĀ against its much larger aggressor. The ramifications of the conflict are significant for both countries. Financial markets across the globe, too, are feeling the sting.</p><p>While many stocks are being pushed down, the oil and gas sector is enjoying a ride to the top. Crude oil pricesĀ are nearing $100 per barrel, pushing up many oil stocks. These prices havenāt reached triple digits since 2014.</p><p>Russia is one of the worldās largest oil and gas exporters. For the countries that rely on its supplies, these sanctions could mean trouble. As the<i>Washington Post</i>reports, much of Europe is dependent on Russian exports for heating homes and industrial buildings. Ryan Fitzmaurice, a commodity strategist at Rabobankrecently speculatedthat further disruptions in Russiaās oil supply chain could indeed send prices up even further.</p><p>For as long as prices continue to rise, though, oil stocks will continue to benefit. Letās take a closer look at the oil stocks to buy as the conflict persists.</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/COP\">ConocoPhillipsĀ </a></li><li><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DVN\">Devon Energy</a></li><li><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ENB\">Enbridge</a></li></ul><p>Oil Stocks to Buy: <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/COP\">ConocoPhillipsĀ </a></p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1d90fe3eea7e071887a2ca7d42b93172\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com</p><p>One of Americaās leading oil and gas producers, ConocoPhillips has already been hailed among the potential winners of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.</p><p>Based on production and proved reserves, itbills itselfas the worldās largest independent exploration and production (E&P) company. Its holdings expand across 14 countries, encompassing much of Europe and parts of the Middle East. AsĀ <i>InvestorPlace</i>Ā contributor Josh Enomotodescribes, ConocoPhillips is āone of the biggest oil stocks levered to the upstream component of the energy supply chain.ā</p><p>Oil companies built around an upstream approach are considered the top of their field. Enomoto notes that upstream oil stocks can sometimes carry more risk. While that is true, ConocoPhillips is still an established industry leader, making it a ābalancedā bet for the category. In September 2021, Enomoto named COP to a list ofĀ oil stocks to buyĀ for anyone who believed that barrels would hit a $100 price target. Months later, we are about to see exactly that happen. ConocoPhillipsā recent performance indicates that its place on the list was well deserved.</p><p>As oil prices have risen throughout the past six months, COP stock has increased by more than 60%. For as long as the current oil boom persists, it will remain among the winners.</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/DVN\">Devon Energy</a></li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ed9d0513be668ac8b461a2eb4c42adb7\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>Source: Jeff Whyte / Shutterstock.com</p><p>Another consistent winner of the American oil boom, DVN has enjoyed a better season so far than many of its larger peers such as COP andĀ <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CVX\">Chevron</a>. The Oklahoma-based company is primarily focused on the hydrocarbon exploration business. It has enjoyed bullish action since its reported earnings for the fourth quarter beat analyst expectations.</p><p>As<i>InvestorPlace</i>contributor Joel Baglole recentlyĀ reported, this impressive start to the year saw several Wall Street institutions raise their price targets on DVN stock including Credit Suisse.Ā āWith proven oil reserves of 752 million barrels, Devon Energy is well-positioned to perform strongly,ā Baglole wrote.</p><p>That assessment is well supported by DVN stockās performance.</p><p>Shares have risen by more than 94% over the past six months. Enomoto also named it as an oil stock to buy for bulls who saw prices reaching the $100 target. He noted that Devonās domestic focus would likely prove advantageous if geopolitical conflicts were to become a factor for oil markets. The performance that weāve seen from DVN stock since then lends considerable support to his argument.</p><p>Investors are looking for oil plays close to home as tensions worsen overseas. Devon will likely be a tempting investment, as it should be.</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ENB\">Enbridge</a></li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7361a9297dd728a2b413e607d5b6ba12\" tg-width=\"300\" tg-height=\"169\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com</p><p>Earlier this month,Ā <i>Market</i>Ā <i>Watch</i>Ā reportedĀ that analysts were favoring Canadian oil producers. One name that stands out among the countryās growing field is Enbridge.</p><p>Based in Calgary, this company has carved out an impressive market share. In addition to its pipelines, Enbridge also boasts operations in natural gas utility operations. What some may not know, though, is that the company is responsible forĀ transportingĀ more than one-quarter of North Americaās crude oil production. This means it moves more than 30% of the continentās crude oil and as well as almost 20% of the United Statesā natural gas. Enbridge is also interested in renewable energy, and its assets include a wind portfolio.</p><p>As oil pipelines across Europe are compromised by the sanctions imposed on Russia, both prices and demand will increase for U.S. and Canada-based producers. <i>InvestorPlace</i>Ā contributor Tezcan Gecgil recently named ENB as an investment to guard against rising inflation. While her argument still holds true, the current boom is an even more pressing reason for it to be listed among oil stocks to buy. It should absolutely be on the radar of any investor looking for bullish plays on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Oil Stocks to Buy as Russia-Ukraine Fears Ignite Oil Prices</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Oil Stocks to Buy as Russia-Ukraine Fears Ignite Oil Prices\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-02-24 23:11 GMT+8 <a href=https://investorplace.com/2022/02/3-oil-stocks-to-buy-as-russia-ukraine-fears-ignite-oil-prices/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>President Joe Biden hasĀ confirmedĀ that we have seen the beginning of Russiaās invasion of Ukraine. The eyes of the world remain on the small nation as Western economic powersĀ levy sanctionsĀ against ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2022/02/3-oil-stocks-to-buy-as-russia-ukraine-fears-ignite-oil-prices/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"COP":"åŗ·č²ē³ę²¹","ENB":"å®ę”„","DVN":"å¾·ęč½ęŗ","CVX":"éŖä½é¾"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2022/02/3-oil-stocks-to-buy-as-russia-ukraine-fears-ignite-oil-prices/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1165158876","content_text":"President Joe Biden hasĀ confirmedĀ that we have seen the beginning of Russiaās invasion of Ukraine. The eyes of the world remain on the small nation as Western economic powersĀ levy sanctionsĀ against its much larger aggressor. The ramifications of the conflict are significant for both countries. Financial markets across the globe, too, are feeling the sting.While many stocks are being pushed down, the oil and gas sector is enjoying a ride to the top. Crude oil pricesĀ are nearing $100 per barrel, pushing up many oil stocks. These prices havenāt reached triple digits since 2014.Russia is one of the worldās largest oil and gas exporters. For the countries that rely on its supplies, these sanctions could mean trouble. As theWashington Postreports, much of Europe is dependent on Russian exports for heating homes and industrial buildings. Ryan Fitzmaurice, a commodity strategist at Rabobankrecently speculatedthat further disruptions in Russiaās oil supply chain could indeed send prices up even further.For as long as prices continue to rise, though, oil stocks will continue to benefit. Letās take a closer look at the oil stocks to buy as the conflict persists.ConocoPhillipsĀ Devon EnergyEnbridgeOil Stocks to Buy: ConocoPhillipsĀ Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.comOne of Americaās leading oil and gas producers, ConocoPhillips has already been hailed among the potential winners of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.Based on production and proved reserves, itbills itselfas the worldās largest independent exploration and production (E&P) company. Its holdings expand across 14 countries, encompassing much of Europe and parts of the Middle East. AsĀ InvestorPlaceĀ contributor Josh Enomotodescribes, ConocoPhillips is āone of the biggest oil stocks levered to the upstream component of the energy supply chain.āOil companies built around an upstream approach are considered the top of their field. Enomoto notes that upstream oil stocks can sometimes carry more risk. While that is true, ConocoPhillips is still an established industry leader, making it a ābalancedā bet for the category. In September 2021, Enomoto named COP to a list ofĀ oil stocks to buyĀ for anyone who believed that barrels would hit a $100 price target. Months later, we are about to see exactly that happen. ConocoPhillipsā recent performance indicates that its place on the list was well deserved.As oil prices have risen throughout the past six months, COP stock has increased by more than 60%. For as long as the current oil boom persists, it will remain among the winners.Devon EnergySource: Jeff Whyte / Shutterstock.comAnother consistent winner of the American oil boom, DVN has enjoyed a better season so far than many of its larger peers such as COP andĀ Chevron. The Oklahoma-based company is primarily focused on the hydrocarbon exploration business. It has enjoyed bullish action since its reported earnings for the fourth quarter beat analyst expectations.AsInvestorPlacecontributor Joel Baglole recentlyĀ reported, this impressive start to the year saw several Wall Street institutions raise their price targets on DVN stock including Credit Suisse.Ā āWith proven oil reserves of 752 million barrels, Devon Energy is well-positioned to perform strongly,ā Baglole wrote.That assessment is well supported by DVN stockās performance.Shares have risen by more than 94% over the past six months. Enomoto also named it as an oil stock to buy for bulls who saw prices reaching the $100 target. He noted that Devonās domestic focus would likely prove advantageous if geopolitical conflicts were to become a factor for oil markets. The performance that weāve seen from DVN stock since then lends considerable support to his argument.Investors are looking for oil plays close to home as tensions worsen overseas. Devon will likely be a tempting investment, as it should be.EnbridgeSource: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.comEarlier this month,Ā MarketĀ WatchĀ reportedĀ that analysts were favoring Canadian oil producers. One name that stands out among the countryās growing field is Enbridge.Based in Calgary, this company has carved out an impressive market share. In addition to its pipelines, Enbridge also boasts operations in natural gas utility operations. What some may not know, though, is that the company is responsible forĀ transportingĀ more than one-quarter of North Americaās crude oil production. This means it moves more than 30% of the continentās crude oil and as well as almost 20% of the United Statesā natural gas. Enbridge is also interested in renewable energy, and its assets include a wind portfolio.As oil pipelines across Europe are compromised by the sanctions imposed on Russia, both prices and demand will increase for U.S. and Canada-based producers. InvestorPlaceĀ contributor Tezcan Gecgil recently named ENB as an investment to guard against rising inflation. While her argument still holds true, the current boom is an even more pressing reason for it to be listed among oil stocks to buy. It should absolutely be on the radar of any investor looking for bullish plays on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":673,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9030238021,"gmtCreate":1645740083860,"gmtModify":1676534058109,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Good to know.","listText":"Good to know.","text":"Good to know.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9030238021","repostId":"2213928118","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2213928118","kind":"highlight","pubTimestamp":1645714170,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2213928118?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-24 22:49","market":"us","language":"en","title":"4 Dividend Stocks That Should Pay You Forever","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2213928118","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"These four stocks can pay you dividends for life.","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>It's a great feeling when a dividend check hits your bank account. Dividends are a source of passive income to supplement the earnings from your job, while also helping defray higher expenses from rising inflation. There are a wide variety of dividend companies, but investors need to look for those with a consistent history of rising payouts.</p><p>Such stocks are usually backed by a sturdy business model, a strong brand, and healthy free cash flows. The business should also have a stellar track record of raising dividends over the years and be a market leader in its industry. These attributes will stand you in good stead if you are looking for a dividend stock that can pay you for life.</p><p>Here are four stocks with the above characteristics that should continue to dish out healthy dividends for the foreseeable future.</p><h2>1. Procter & Gamble</h2><p><b>Procter & Gamble</b> (NYSE:PG) is a storied consumer goods company whose brands include Pampers, Tide, and Gillette. The company has improved its net sales from $65.1 billion in fiscal year 2017 to $76.1 billion in fiscal 2021. Its dividend per share has also risen from $2.70 to $3.24 over the same period.</p><p>Procter & Gamble continued to post robust numbers in its latest period, the fiscal 2022 second quarter, with net sales rising by 6% year over year to $20.9 billion and net income climbing by 10% to $4.2 billion.</p><p>Its board recently declared a quarterly dividend of $0.8698 per share, translating to an annual dividend of $3.4792, a 7.4% increase over the prior year. Procter & Gamble has an impressive track record of paying out dividends for 131 consecutive years and has raised its annual dividend consecutively over the last 65 years.</p><h2>2. Kimberly-Clark</h2><p>Moving on to another consumer goods giant, <b>Kimberly-Clark</b> (NYSE:KMB) was established in 1872 and sells its well-known brands such as Huggies, Kleenex tissues, and Scott paper products in over 175 countries. Like Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark has demonstrated a steady rise in net sales, from $18.3 billion in fiscal year 2016 to $19.1 billion in fiscal 2020. The companyĀ paid out $3.64 per share in dividends for fiscal 2016, and it rose to $4.24 four years later.</p><p>The company's products experienced increased demand from the pandemic and saw net sales inch up by 3% year over year to $4.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021. Despite net profit falling year over year, Kimberly-Clark continued generating a healthy free cash flow of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2021. The board of directors approved a 1.8% year-over-year increase in the quarterly dividend to $1.16 per share, marking the company's 50th consecutive annual dividend increase and elevating it into the league of Dividend Kings.</p><h2>3. Starbucks</h2><p>It seems like there's a <b>Starbucks</b> (NASDAQ:SBUX) on nearly every corner, as the global coffee chain continues to expand worldwide. With more than 33,000 stores around the world, the company has shown itself to be resilient in the face of the pandemic.</p><p>Revenue fell in fiscal 2020 from $26.5 billion to $23.5 billion due to temporary forced store closures but rebounded in fiscal 2021 to $29.1 billion. Net income also rebounded sharply from $924.7 million in fiscal 2020 to $4.2 billion as the coffee giant continued to expand in China.</p><p>Starbucks recently bumped up its quarterly dividend from $0.45 to $0.49, making this the 11th consecutive annual dividend increase. The company has grand plans with its Growth at Scale initiative, aiming to increase its global retail store base to around 55,000 by fiscal 2030. If it can reach this goal, investors should see its dividend continue to rise over the coming years.</p><h2>4. Nike</h2><p><b>Nike</b> (NYSE:NKE), a market leader in athletic footwear and apparel, reported the same sharp rebound as Starbucks due to its digital presence and strong brand reputation. Its revenue saw a dip from $39.1 billion in fiscal 2019 to $37.4 billion in fiscal 2020, but headed higher in 2021 to $44.5 billion, surpassing its pre-pandemic level. Net income rose in tandem, hitting a three-year high of $5.7 billion as the sports giant continued to expand its customer base.</p><p>In a show of confidence, Nike's board hiked its quarterly dividend by 11% from $0.275 per share to $0.305. This increase was the company's 20th consecutive year of dividend increases, putting it five years away from becoming a Dividend Aristocrat.</p><p>Results for the first half of fiscal 2022 continued to impress: Revenue was up 8% year over year while net income climbed 16% year over year. Nike has invested in its digital future with its latest acquisition, RTFTK, a company that specializes in the creation of non-fungible tokens in the form of sneakers and other collectibles. Should this move pay off, it could see Nike reporting steadily higher earnings and dividends as its online presence grows stronger.</p></body></html>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>4 Dividend Stocks That Should Pay You Forever</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n4 Dividend Stocks That Should Pay You Forever\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-02-24 22:49 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/02/24/4-dividend-stocks-that-should-pay-you-forever/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>It's a great feeling when a dividend check hits your bank account. 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Dividends are a source of passive income to supplement the earnings from your job, while also helping defray higher expenses from rising inflation. There are a wide variety of dividend companies, but investors need to look for those with a consistent history of rising payouts.Such stocks are usually backed by a sturdy business model, a strong brand, and healthy free cash flows. The business should also have a stellar track record of raising dividends over the years and be a market leader in its industry. These attributes will stand you in good stead if you are looking for a dividend stock that can pay you for life.Here are four stocks with the above characteristics that should continue to dish out healthy dividends for the foreseeable future.1. Procter & GambleProcter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) is a storied consumer goods company whose brands include Pampers, Tide, and Gillette. The company has improved its net sales from $65.1 billion in fiscal year 2017 to $76.1 billion in fiscal 2021. Its dividend per share has also risen from $2.70 to $3.24 over the same period.Procter & Gamble continued to post robust numbers in its latest period, the fiscal 2022 second quarter, with net sales rising by 6% year over year to $20.9 billion and net income climbing by 10% to $4.2 billion.Its board recently declared a quarterly dividend of $0.8698 per share, translating to an annual dividend of $3.4792, a 7.4% increase over the prior year. Procter & Gamble has an impressive track record of paying out dividends for 131 consecutive years and has raised its annual dividend consecutively over the last 65 years.2. Kimberly-ClarkMoving on to another consumer goods giant, Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) was established in 1872 and sells its well-known brands such as Huggies, Kleenex tissues, and Scott paper products in over 175 countries. Like Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark has demonstrated a steady rise in net sales, from $18.3 billion in fiscal year 2016 to $19.1 billion in fiscal 2020. The companyĀ paid out $3.64 per share in dividends for fiscal 2016, and it rose to $4.24 four years later.The company's products experienced increased demand from the pandemic and saw net sales inch up by 3% year over year to $4.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021. Despite net profit falling year over year, Kimberly-Clark continued generating a healthy free cash flow of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2021. The board of directors approved a 1.8% year-over-year increase in the quarterly dividend to $1.16 per share, marking the company's 50th consecutive annual dividend increase and elevating it into the league of Dividend Kings.3. StarbucksIt seems like there's a Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) on nearly every corner, as the global coffee chain continues to expand worldwide. With more than 33,000 stores around the world, the company has shown itself to be resilient in the face of the pandemic.Revenue fell in fiscal 2020 from $26.5 billion to $23.5 billion due to temporary forced store closures but rebounded in fiscal 2021 to $29.1 billion. Net income also rebounded sharply from $924.7 million in fiscal 2020 to $4.2 billion as the coffee giant continued to expand in China.Starbucks recently bumped up its quarterly dividend from $0.45 to $0.49, making this the 11th consecutive annual dividend increase. The company has grand plans with its Growth at Scale initiative, aiming to increase its global retail store base to around 55,000 by fiscal 2030. If it can reach this goal, investors should see its dividend continue to rise over the coming years.4. NikeNike (NYSE:NKE), a market leader in athletic footwear and apparel, reported the same sharp rebound as Starbucks due to its digital presence and strong brand reputation. Its revenue saw a dip from $39.1 billion in fiscal 2019 to $37.4 billion in fiscal 2020, but headed higher in 2021 to $44.5 billion, surpassing its pre-pandemic level. Net income rose in tandem, hitting a three-year high of $5.7 billion as the sports giant continued to expand its customer base.In a show of confidence, Nike's board hiked its quarterly dividend by 11% from $0.275 per share to $0.305. This increase was the company's 20th consecutive year of dividend increases, putting it five years away from becoming a Dividend Aristocrat.Results for the first half of fiscal 2022 continued to impress: Revenue was up 8% year over year while net income climbed 16% year over year. Nike has invested in its digital future with its latest acquisition, RTFTK, a company that specializes in the creation of non-fungible tokens in the form of sneakers and other collectibles. 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"That's really adding to elevated nervousness about further aggressive actions and what that will mean for commodities and inflation overall."</p><p>The Dow came within a hair's breadth of confirming it was in a correction on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 in the previous session confirmed it was in a correction when the index ended down more than 10% from its Jan. 3 closing record high. A correction is confirmed when an index closes 10% or more below its record closing level.</p><p>The Nasdaq has tumbled almost 19% from its record-high close on Nov. 19, nearing a 20% decline that many investors view as the definition of a bear market.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 464.85 points, or 1.38%, to 33,131.76, the S&P 500 lost 79.26 points, or 1.84%, to 4,225.5 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 344.03 points, or 2.57%, to 13,037.49.</p><p>Investors also have been on edge about possible aggressive tightening by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation.</p><p>"There's been geopolitical risks and rhetoric that have given investors that much more to be worried about," said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi.</p><p>"What it's done is exacerbate the momentum that was already in place to the downside," she said. "What we were seeing already coming into this was clearly a compression in multiples across a number of different highly valued areas of the market."</p><p>A Reuters poll showed the S&P 500 index still rising by end-2022.</p><p>In company news, shares of Lowe's Cos Inc ended slightly higher after the company raised full-year sales and profit forecasts.</p><p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the New York Stock Exchange by a 2.92-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.14-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 2 new 52-week highs and 39 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 24 new highs and 550 new lows.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.98 billion shares, compared with the roughly 12.3 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>US STOCKS-Wall Street Extends Selloff on Ukraine Worries</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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"That's really adding to elevated nervousness about further aggressive actions and what that will mean for commodities and inflation overall."</p><p>The Dow came within a hair's breadth of confirming it was in a correction on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 in the previous session confirmed it was in a correction when the index ended down more than 10% from its Jan. 3 closing record high. A correction is confirmed when an index closes 10% or more below its record closing level.</p><p>The Nasdaq has tumbled almost 19% from its record-high close on Nov. 19, nearing a 20% decline that many investors view as the definition of a bear market.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 464.85 points, or 1.38%, to 33,131.76, the S&P 500 lost 79.26 points, or 1.84%, to 4,225.5 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 344.03 points, or 2.57%, to 13,037.49.</p><p>Investors also have been on edge about possible aggressive tightening by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation.</p><p>"There's been geopolitical risks and rhetoric that have given investors that much more to be worried about," said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi.</p><p>"What it's done is exacerbate the momentum that was already in place to the downside," she said. "What we were seeing already coming into this was clearly a compression in multiples across a number of different highly valued areas of the market."</p><p>A Reuters poll showed the S&P 500 index still rising by end-2022.</p><p>In company news, shares of Lowe's Cos Inc ended slightly higher after the company raised full-year sales and profit forecasts.</p><p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the New York Stock Exchange by a 2.92-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.14-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 2 new 52-week highs and 39 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 24 new highs and 550 new lows.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.98 billion shares, compared with the roughly 12.3 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TQQQ":"ēŗ³ęäøååå¤ETF",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","SDOW":"éęäøååē©ŗETF-ProShares","DDM":"éęäø¤ååå¤ETF","SQQQ":"ēŗ³ęäøååē©ŗETF","QLD":"ēŗ³ęäø¤ååå¤ETF","QID":"ēŗ³ęäø¤ååē©ŗETF","UDOW":"éęäøååå¤ETF-ProShares","DJX":"1/100éē¼ęÆ","DOG":"éęååETF","DXD":"éęäø¤ååē©ŗETF",".DJI":"éē¼ęÆ","PSQ":"ēŗ³ęååETF","QQQ":"ēŗ³ę100ETF"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2213091531","content_text":"* U.S. and allies keep tougher measures against Russia in reserve* Lowe's rises after upbeat outlook* Indexes: Dow down 1.4%, S&P 500 down 1.8%, Nasdaq down 2.6%NEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Wall Street's major indexes ended sharply lower on Wednesday, extending their recent rout as Ukraine declared a state of emergency and the U.S. State Department said a Russian invasion of Ukraine remains potentially imminent.The State Department added that Washington has not seen any indication of Russians backing away, while the White House said President Joe Biden has no intention of sending U.S. troops to fight in Ukraine.Earlier, the West unveiled more sanctions against Russia over its move into eastern Ukraine, and Moscow began evacuating its Kyiv embassy.Nasdaq led the day's decline, falling more than 2%, while the information technology sector dropped 2.6% and was the biggest drag on the S&P 500.\"If anything (Russian) President Putin is digging his heels in despite the increased sanctions,\" said Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles. \"That's really adding to elevated nervousness about further aggressive actions and what that will mean for commodities and inflation overall.\"The Dow came within a hair's breadth of confirming it was in a correction on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 in the previous session confirmed it was in a correction when the index ended down more than 10% from its Jan. 3 closing record high. A correction is confirmed when an index closes 10% or more below its record closing level.The Nasdaq has tumbled almost 19% from its record-high close on Nov. 19, nearing a 20% decline that many investors view as the definition of a bear market.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 464.85 points, or 1.38%, to 33,131.76, the S&P 500 lost 79.26 points, or 1.84%, to 4,225.5 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 344.03 points, or 2.57%, to 13,037.49.Investors also have been on edge about possible aggressive tightening by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation.\"There's been geopolitical risks and rhetoric that have given investors that much more to be worried about,\" said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi.\"What it's done is exacerbate the momentum that was already in place to the downside,\" she said. \"What we were seeing already coming into this was clearly a compression in multiples across a number of different highly valued areas of the market.\"A Reuters poll showed the S&P 500 index still rising by end-2022.In company news, shares of Lowe's Cos Inc ended slightly higher after the company raised full-year sales and profit forecasts.Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the New York Stock Exchange by a 2.92-to-1 ratio; 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","text":"Didn't expect that stocks dropped so much.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9097715656","repostId":"1101814218","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1101814218","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1645540367,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1101814218?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-22 22:32","market":"us","language":"en","title":"U.S. Stocks Fall as Wall Street Assesses Rising Tensions between Russia and Ukraine","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1101814218","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"The major averages dipped on Tuesday as traders continue to monitor brewing tensions between Russia ","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>The major averages dipped on Tuesday as traders continue to monitor brewing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 90 points or 0.25%. The S&P 500 was off just 0.15%, and the Nasdaq Composite slipped by 0.45%. The U.S. stock market was closed Monday due to the Presidentās Day holiday.</p><p>Oil prices rose, with West Texas Intermediate futures jumping 4.5% to $95.19 per barrel. Energy stocks jumped in premarket trading with Exxon Mobil rising 1.8% and ConocoPhillips adding 2.8%.</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he would recognize the independence of two breakaway regions in Ukraine,Ā potentially undercutting peace talks with President Joe Biden. That announcement was followed by news thatĀ Biden was set to order sanctions on separatist regions of Ukraine, with the European Union vowing to take additional measures.</p><p>Putin later ordered forces into the two breakaway regions.</p><p>U.K. Health Minister Sajid Javid said Tuesday that āthe invasion of Ukraine has begun.ā U.S. President Joe Biden has not yet used the word āinvasionā to describe the current activity. The nation has also startedĀ targeted economic sanctionsĀ against five Russian banks and three wealthy individuals.</p><p>The news came after the White House said Sunday thatĀ Biden has accepted āin principleāto meet with Putin in yet another effort to deescalate the Russia-Ukraine situation via diplomacy. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the summit between the two leaders would occur after a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.</p><p>The Russia-Ukraine conflict has put pressure on market sentiment recently, with the major averages posting back-to-back weekly losses. The Dow fell 1.9% last week, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slid 1.6% and 1.8%, respectively.</p><p>āWhile Mondayās episode will have important implications for Russiaās political relations with foreign partners, a significant market event is likely avoided for the time being, but the trajectory in the coming weeks will be important to monitor from a rising market risk perspective,ā said Ed Mills of Raymond James.</p><p>In early earnings action,Home Depotreported quarterlyprofit of $3.21 a share, three cents better than estimates, and said it sees earnings and revenue growth this year. Shares rose 1.4% in premarket trading.</p><p>Macyāspopped more than 7% in premarket trading after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. Macyās also authorized a new $2 billion share buyback program and announced a 5% dividend increase</p><p>In deal news,Houghton Mifflin Harcourtshares surged 14.4% after the company said it would be taken private by Veritas Capital in a deal worth $21 a share, representing a nearly 16% premium from Fridayās close. The deal is expected to be completed in the second quarter.</p><p>Traders are also keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve, as the U.S. central bank is expected to raise rates multiple times starting next month. Traders are betting that there is a 100% chance of a Fed rate hike after the March 15-16 meeting, with expectations tilting toward a 0.25 percentage point move,according to the CME Groupās FedWatch tool.</p><p>Expectations of tighter monetary policy have put pressure on stocks, particularly those in rate-sensitive sectors like tech, and have sent Treasury yield sharply higher to start 2022. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield ended last week around 1.93% after briefly breaking above 2%. The 10-year began 2022 trading at around 1.51%.</p><p>āAll eyes are on the Fed,ā Strategas investment strategist Ryan Grabinski wrote in a note released Friday evening. āAs of today, the market is expecting the Fed to raise interest rates at nearly every meeting this year. Despite that, we left Monetary Policy as Favorable for now because the Fed is continuing to purchase Treasuries (an accommodative policy action).ā</p><p>Meanwhile, Wall Street is preparing for the tail-end of the corporate earnings season, with Home Depot and eBay among the companies set to report this week. It has been a solid earnings season thus far: Of the more than 400 S&P 500 companies that have posted fourth-quarter earnings, 77.7% have beaten analyst expectations, according to FactSet.</p><p></p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>U.S. Stocks Fall as Wall Street Assesses Rising Tensions between Russia and Ukraine</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nU.S. Stocks Fall as Wall Street Assesses Rising Tensions between Russia and Ukraine\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2022-02-22 22:32</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>The major averages dipped on Tuesday as traders continue to monitor brewing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 90 points or 0.25%. The S&P 500 was off just 0.15%, and the Nasdaq Composite slipped by 0.45%. The U.S. stock market was closed Monday due to the Presidentās Day holiday.</p><p>Oil prices rose, with West Texas Intermediate futures jumping 4.5% to $95.19 per barrel. Energy stocks jumped in premarket trading with Exxon Mobil rising 1.8% and ConocoPhillips adding 2.8%.</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he would recognize the independence of two breakaway regions in Ukraine,Ā potentially undercutting peace talks with President Joe Biden. That announcement was followed by news thatĀ Biden was set to order sanctions on separatist regions of Ukraine, with the European Union vowing to take additional measures.</p><p>Putin later ordered forces into the two breakaway regions.</p><p>U.K. Health Minister Sajid Javid said Tuesday that āthe invasion of Ukraine has begun.ā U.S. President Joe Biden has not yet used the word āinvasionā to describe the current activity. The nation has also startedĀ targeted economic sanctionsĀ against five Russian banks and three wealthy individuals.</p><p>The news came after the White House said Sunday thatĀ Biden has accepted āin principleāto meet with Putin in yet another effort to deescalate the Russia-Ukraine situation via diplomacy. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the summit between the two leaders would occur after a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.</p><p>The Russia-Ukraine conflict has put pressure on market sentiment recently, with the major averages posting back-to-back weekly losses. The Dow fell 1.9% last week, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slid 1.6% and 1.8%, respectively.</p><p>āWhile Mondayās episode will have important implications for Russiaās political relations with foreign partners, a significant market event is likely avoided for the time being, but the trajectory in the coming weeks will be important to monitor from a rising market risk perspective,ā said Ed Mills of Raymond James.</p><p>In early earnings action,Home Depotreported quarterlyprofit of $3.21 a share, three cents better than estimates, and said it sees earnings and revenue growth this year. Shares rose 1.4% in premarket trading.</p><p>Macyāspopped more than 7% in premarket trading after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. Macyās also authorized a new $2 billion share buyback program and announced a 5% dividend increase</p><p>In deal news,Houghton Mifflin Harcourtshares surged 14.4% after the company said it would be taken private by Veritas Capital in a deal worth $21 a share, representing a nearly 16% premium from Fridayās close. The deal is expected to be completed in the second quarter.</p><p>Traders are also keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve, as the U.S. central bank is expected to raise rates multiple times starting next month. Traders are betting that there is a 100% chance of a Fed rate hike after the March 15-16 meeting, with expectations tilting toward a 0.25 percentage point move,according to the CME Groupās FedWatch tool.</p><p>Expectations of tighter monetary policy have put pressure on stocks, particularly those in rate-sensitive sectors like tech, and have sent Treasury yield sharply higher to start 2022. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield ended last week around 1.93% after briefly breaking above 2%. The 10-year began 2022 trading at around 1.51%.</p><p>āAll eyes are on the Fed,ā Strategas investment strategist Ryan Grabinski wrote in a note released Friday evening. āAs of today, the market is expecting the Fed to raise interest rates at nearly every meeting this year. Despite that, we left Monetary Policy as Favorable for now because the Fed is continuing to purchase Treasuries (an accommodative policy action).ā</p><p>Meanwhile, Wall Street is preparing for the tail-end of the corporate earnings season, with Home Depot and eBay among the companies set to report this week. It has been a solid earnings season thus far: Of the more than 400 S&P 500 companies that have posted fourth-quarter earnings, 77.7% have beaten analyst expectations, according to FactSet.</p><p></p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"éē¼ęÆ"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1101814218","content_text":"The major averages dipped on Tuesday as traders continue to monitor brewing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 90 points or 0.25%. The S&P 500 was off just 0.15%, and the Nasdaq Composite slipped by 0.45%. The U.S. stock market was closed Monday due to the Presidentās Day holiday.Oil prices rose, with West Texas Intermediate futures jumping 4.5% to $95.19 per barrel. Energy stocks jumped in premarket trading with Exxon Mobil rising 1.8% and ConocoPhillips adding 2.8%.Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he would recognize the independence of two breakaway regions in Ukraine,Ā potentially undercutting peace talks with President Joe Biden. That announcement was followed by news thatĀ Biden was set to order sanctions on separatist regions of Ukraine, with the European Union vowing to take additional measures.Putin later ordered forces into the two breakaway regions.U.K. Health Minister Sajid Javid said Tuesday that āthe invasion of Ukraine has begun.ā U.S. President Joe Biden has not yet used the word āinvasionā to describe the current activity. The nation has also startedĀ targeted economic sanctionsĀ against five Russian banks and three wealthy individuals.The news came after the White House said Sunday thatĀ Biden has accepted āin principleāto meet with Putin in yet another effort to deescalate the Russia-Ukraine situation via diplomacy. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the summit between the two leaders would occur after a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.The Russia-Ukraine conflict has put pressure on market sentiment recently, with the major averages posting back-to-back weekly losses. The Dow fell 1.9% last week, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slid 1.6% and 1.8%, respectively.āWhile Mondayās episode will have important implications for Russiaās political relations with foreign partners, a significant market event is likely avoided for the time being, but the trajectory in the coming weeks will be important to monitor from a rising market risk perspective,ā said Ed Mills of Raymond James.In early earnings action,Home Depotreported quarterlyprofit of $3.21 a share, three cents better than estimates, and said it sees earnings and revenue growth this year. Shares rose 1.4% in premarket trading.Macyāspopped more than 7% in premarket trading after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. Macyās also authorized a new $2 billion share buyback program and announced a 5% dividend increaseIn deal news,Houghton Mifflin Harcourtshares surged 14.4% after the company said it would be taken private by Veritas Capital in a deal worth $21 a share, representing a nearly 16% premium from Fridayās close. The deal is expected to be completed in the second quarter.Traders are also keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve, as the U.S. central bank is expected to raise rates multiple times starting next month. Traders are betting that there is a 100% chance of a Fed rate hike after the March 15-16 meeting, with expectations tilting toward a 0.25 percentage point move,according to the CME Groupās FedWatch tool.Expectations of tighter monetary policy have put pressure on stocks, particularly those in rate-sensitive sectors like tech, and have sent Treasury yield sharply higher to start 2022. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield ended last week around 1.93% after briefly breaking above 2%. The 10-year began 2022 trading at around 1.51%.āAll eyes are on the Fed,ā Strategas investment strategist Ryan Grabinski wrote in a note released Friday evening. āAs of today, the market is expecting the Fed to raise interest rates at nearly every meeting this year. Despite that, we left Monetary Policy as Favorable for now because the Fed is continuing to purchase Treasuries (an accommodative policy action).āMeanwhile, Wall Street is preparing for the tail-end of the corporate earnings season, with Home Depot and eBay among the companies set to report this week. It has been a solid earnings season thus far: Of the more than 400 S&P 500 companies that have posted fourth-quarter earnings, 77.7% have beaten analyst expectations, according to FactSet.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":419,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9097264665,"gmtCreate":1645486846595,"gmtModify":1676534031309,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Good","listText":"Good","text":"Good","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9097264665","repostId":"1156868694","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1156868694","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1645447174,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1156868694?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-21 20:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Top Tech Stocks That Will Make You Rich by Retirement","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1156868694","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"KEY POINTSMicrosoft can ride cloud computing growth for decades.ASML enables advanced computing, and","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>KEY POINTS</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">Microsoft</a> can ride cloud computing growth for decades.</li><li><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ASML\">ASML</a> enables advanced computing, and there is no alternative to its EUV tools.</li><li><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CRWD\">CrowdStrike</a> is a leader in cybersecurity that benefits from strong network effects.</li></ul><p>These stocks have compelling competitive advantages and growth prospects. If you have more than 10 years until retirement, they look like promising bets after the recent tech wreck.</p><p>Today's high inflation is a good reminder that your savings need to grow just to keep your purchasing power intact. The best way to do that may be growth stocks and dividend growth stocks, which, after the recent tech sell-off, are now trading at much better valuations.</p><p>Times of market turmoil are uncomfortable, but usually the best time for long-term investors to put money to work. Here are three growth stars with competitive advantages, giving them staying power and a path to making today's investors rich decades out into the future.</p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">Microsoft</a></p><p>Microsoft would make an excellent core holding for both aggressive and defensive investors. Its legacy operating system is an entrenched part of most personal computers in the world, and its software franchises including the Office productivity suite and Dynamics enterprise resource planning suite are cash cows that are growing at a solid pace. Meanwhile, Microsoft's solid number two position in cloud computing has given it a rising growth star, with the Azure cloud platform growing 46% last quarter. The company has also been making thoughtful acquisitions over the past few years under CEO Satya Nadella, into social media with LinkedIn, developer tools with GitHub, and video games, with acquisitions of several game studios culminating in a recent offer to buy Activision Blizzard.</p><p>Microsoft's sprawling empire thus has a nice combo of cash cows, growth stars, and emerging products and services, compounding your investment dollars at very high returns on invested capital. Add in a growing 0.9% dividend and consistent share repurchases, and investors get a bit of everything, including cash returns and impressive growth.</p><p>Microsoft might not look cheap at 31 times earnings, but when you consider it has a higher credit rating than the U.S. government, and that the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond only yields 2.25% today, Microsoft's 3.3% earnings yield looks pretty good. That's especially true since those earnings are still growing over 20% per year despite the company's huge size.</p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ASML\">ASML Holdings</a></p><p>You may have heard that we are in a semiconductor shortage, due to the boom in digitization coming out of the pandemic. The importance of chips and chip-making has never been more at the forefront, as evidenced by developing nations set to give billions in subsidies to chip companies just to keep some capacity on their own shores. Yet due to the wider tech sell-off, the semiconductor index is down about 14% to start the year.</p><p>The sell-off has been especially bad for higher-multiple chip stocks like ASML Holdings, which is down 18.6% for the year and 27.4% from all-time highs set back last summer. Still, ASML deserves a high multiple, given that it has a monopoly on extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) -- a key technology to producing leading-edge chips.</p><p>EUV tools only began to be used a few years ago for leading-edge logic chips, and all the major DRAM memory companies are now beginning to use EUV on current and future nodes. So, we are still in the early innings of EUV usage.</p><p>Although ASML projects solid 25% shipment growth this year, its growth is still severely constrained by supply chain and logistics problems. On the last conference call with analysts, CEO Peter Wennink said for many of its tools, shipments were 40% below current demand.</p><p>Amid interest rate fears, ASML has now rerated to a more palatable 40 times trailing earnings. But like Microsoft, it offers a compelling combination of cash returns in the form of buybacks and a growing 1% dividend, along with inevitable earnings growth well into the future. It's another quality stock to buy amid this year's sell-off and tuck away for decades.</p><p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CRWD\">CrowdStrike</a></p><p>Unlike the previous two stocks, cybersecurity disruptor CrowdStrike doesn't pay a dividend or buy back stock... at least not yet. However, when looking out five or 10 years, that could very well be a possibility.</p><p>CrowdStrike takes its name from its business model. The company amalgamates threat data from endpoints across all its customers into a single, centralized threat graph that gets smarter from that data. A company that gets stronger as it gains more customers benefits from what's called a network effect, which is a powerful advantage that gives a company excellent staying power.</p><p>Fortunately for CrowdStrike but unfortunately for the rest of us, cyber-threats are only proliferating. The Biden Administration recently issued stricter new guidelines for large businesses and government agencies to update their cyber systems, meaning more and more companies will now be compelled to buy best-in-class solutions like CrowdStrike's.</p><p>CrowdStrike is also investing aggressively to capitalize on that opportunity, both internally and through several acquisitions to augment its core endpoint protection offering into a comprehensive cyber platform. Management anticipates its addressable market could more than double over the next three years to $116 billion, if it succeeds in bringing new products to market.</p><p>CrowdStrike has also given an indication it could one day be quite profitable. The company's current free cash flow margin is 32%. While investors should be aware that leaves out significant stock-based compensation, the company doesn't seem to have pressing cash needs, and stock-based comp should diminish as a percentage of revenue over time as CrowdStrike scales.</p><p>Looking out a decade or more, CrowdStrike looks like a long-term winner. It still trades at a lofty 30 times sales, but it's down 43% from its November highs amid the growth-stock sell-off. Now may be a time for long-term investors to look at this leader in the high-growth cybersecurity industry.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Top Tech Stocks That Will Make You Rich by Retirement</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Top Tech Stocks That Will Make You Rich by Retirement\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-02-21 20:39 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/02/21/3-top-tech-stocks-that-will-make-you-rich-by-retir/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>KEY POINTSMicrosoft can ride cloud computing growth for decades.ASML enables advanced computing, and there is no alternative to its EUV tools.CrowdStrike is a leader in cybersecurity that benefits ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/02/21/3-top-tech-stocks-that-will-make-you-rich-by-retir/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"CRWD":"CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.","MSFT":"å¾®č½Æ","ASML":"éæęÆéŗ¦"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/02/21/3-top-tech-stocks-that-will-make-you-rich-by-retir/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1156868694","content_text":"KEY POINTSMicrosoft can ride cloud computing growth for decades.ASML enables advanced computing, and there is no alternative to its EUV tools.CrowdStrike is a leader in cybersecurity that benefits from strong network effects.These stocks have compelling competitive advantages and growth prospects. If you have more than 10 years until retirement, they look like promising bets after the recent tech wreck.Today's high inflation is a good reminder that your savings need to grow just to keep your purchasing power intact. The best way to do that may be growth stocks and dividend growth stocks, which, after the recent tech sell-off, are now trading at much better valuations.Times of market turmoil are uncomfortable, but usually the best time for long-term investors to put money to work. Here are three growth stars with competitive advantages, giving them staying power and a path to making today's investors rich decades out into the future.MicrosoftMicrosoft would make an excellent core holding for both aggressive and defensive investors. Its legacy operating system is an entrenched part of most personal computers in the world, and its software franchises including the Office productivity suite and Dynamics enterprise resource planning suite are cash cows that are growing at a solid pace. Meanwhile, Microsoft's solid number two position in cloud computing has given it a rising growth star, with the Azure cloud platform growing 46% last quarter. The company has also been making thoughtful acquisitions over the past few years under CEO Satya Nadella, into social media with LinkedIn, developer tools with GitHub, and video games, with acquisitions of several game studios culminating in a recent offer to buy Activision Blizzard.Microsoft's sprawling empire thus has a nice combo of cash cows, growth stars, and emerging products and services, compounding your investment dollars at very high returns on invested capital. Add in a growing 0.9% dividend and consistent share repurchases, and investors get a bit of everything, including cash returns and impressive growth.Microsoft might not look cheap at 31 times earnings, but when you consider it has a higher credit rating than the U.S. government, and that the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond only yields 2.25% today, Microsoft's 3.3% earnings yield looks pretty good. That's especially true since those earnings are still growing over 20% per year despite the company's huge size.ASML HoldingsYou may have heard that we are in a semiconductor shortage, due to the boom in digitization coming out of the pandemic. The importance of chips and chip-making has never been more at the forefront, as evidenced by developing nations set to give billions in subsidies to chip companies just to keep some capacity on their own shores. Yet due to the wider tech sell-off, the semiconductor index is down about 14% to start the year.The sell-off has been especially bad for higher-multiple chip stocks like ASML Holdings, which is down 18.6% for the year and 27.4% from all-time highs set back last summer. Still, ASML deserves a high multiple, given that it has a monopoly on extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) -- a key technology to producing leading-edge chips.EUV tools only began to be used a few years ago for leading-edge logic chips, and all the major DRAM memory companies are now beginning to use EUV on current and future nodes. So, we are still in the early innings of EUV usage.Although ASML projects solid 25% shipment growth this year, its growth is still severely constrained by supply chain and logistics problems. On the last conference call with analysts, CEO Peter Wennink said for many of its tools, shipments were 40% below current demand.Amid interest rate fears, ASML has now rerated to a more palatable 40 times trailing earnings. But like Microsoft, it offers a compelling combination of cash returns in the form of buybacks and a growing 1% dividend, along with inevitable earnings growth well into the future. It's another quality stock to buy amid this year's sell-off and tuck away for decades.CrowdStrikeUnlike the previous two stocks, cybersecurity disruptor CrowdStrike doesn't pay a dividend or buy back stock... at least not yet. However, when looking out five or 10 years, that could very well be a possibility.CrowdStrike takes its name from its business model. The company amalgamates threat data from endpoints across all its customers into a single, centralized threat graph that gets smarter from that data. A company that gets stronger as it gains more customers benefits from what's called a network effect, which is a powerful advantage that gives a company excellent staying power.Fortunately for CrowdStrike but unfortunately for the rest of us, cyber-threats are only proliferating. The Biden Administration recently issued stricter new guidelines for large businesses and government agencies to update their cyber systems, meaning more and more companies will now be compelled to buy best-in-class solutions like CrowdStrike's.CrowdStrike is also investing aggressively to capitalize on that opportunity, both internally and through several acquisitions to augment its core endpoint protection offering into a comprehensive cyber platform. Management anticipates its addressable market could more than double over the next three years to $116 billion, if it succeeds in bringing new products to market.CrowdStrike has also given an indication it could one day be quite profitable. The company's current free cash flow margin is 32%. While investors should be aware that leaves out significant stock-based compensation, the company doesn't seem to have pressing cash needs, and stock-based comp should diminish as a percentage of revenue over time as CrowdStrike scales.Looking out a decade or more, CrowdStrike looks like a long-term winner. It still trades at a lofty 30 times sales, but it's down 43% from its November highs amid the growth-stock sell-off. Now may be a time for long-term investors to look at this leader in the high-growth cybersecurity industry.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":408,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9097871854,"gmtCreate":1645420794282,"gmtModify":1676534026532,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Good. Happy to know that.","listText":"Good. Happy to know that.","text":"Good. Happy to know that.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9097871854","repostId":"1110167345","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":206,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9094662291,"gmtCreate":1645141458013,"gmtModify":1676534001446,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Peace pls.","listText":"Peace pls.","text":"Peace pls.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9094662291","repostId":"2212149643","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2212149643","kind":"highlight","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1645139000,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2212149643?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-18 07:03","market":"us","language":"en","title":"US STOCKS-Stocks Slide as Heightened Ukraine Tensions Weigh","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2212149643","media":"Reuters","summary":"U.S. stocks slid on Thursday, with the S&P 500 marking its biggest daily percentage drop in two weeks, as investors shifted to defensive sectors and safe havens such as bonds and gold as geopolitical ","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>U.S. stocks slid on Thursday, with the S&P 500 marking its biggest daily percentage drop in two weeks, as investors shifted to defensive sectors and safe havens such as bonds and gold as geopolitical tensions between Washington and Russia over Ukraine flared.</p><p>After Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels traded fire in eastern Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden said there was every indication Russia was planning to invade in the next few days and was preparing a pretext to justify it.</p><p>Russia accused Biden of stoking tensions and released a strongly worded letter saying Washington was ignoring its security demands and threatening unspecified "military-technical measures".</p><p>On Wall Street, the growth-oriented technology and communication services sectors were among the hardest hit. Financials also declined as U.S. Treasury yields moved lower.</p><p>Developments in Ukraine have added to uncertainty about the path of the Federal Reserve's tightening plans to fight inflation.</p><p>"There's a lot of nervousness out there and as we approach the weekend nothingās been settled between Russia and Ukraine," said Michael James, managing director, equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles.</p><p>"The continued weakness, especially in the growth names, is indicative of elevated nervousness and sellers continuing to swamp buyers in just about every stock."</p><p>The defensive utilities and consumer staples</p><p>sectors were Wall Street's only advancers, with staples getting a lift from a 4.01% jump in Walmart after it posted record holiday sales.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 622.24 points, or 1.78%, to 34,312.03, the S&P 500 lost 94.75 points, or 2.12%, to 4,380.26 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 407.38 points, or 2.88%, to 13,716.72.</p><p>The drop for the Dow was the biggest daily percentage decline since Nov. 30 while the Nasdaq's decline was its largest percentage fall since Feb. 3.</p><p>With the end of earnings season on the horizon, chipmaker Nvidia tumbled 7.51% as flat gross margins and concern about its exposure to the crypto market overshadowed an upbeat current-quarter revenue forecast, and helped give the Philadelphia Semiconductor index its first daily decline this week.</p><p>TripAdvisor Inc lost 2.50% after the hotel search website operator posted a surprise fourth-quarter loss. Albemarle Corp plunged 19.91% as the lithium producer forecast downbeat annual earnings.</p><p>As risk aversion pushed bond yields lower, big banks including JPMorgan Chase, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSTLW\">Morgan Stanley</a> and Bank of America all lost ground. Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo fell even after positive outlooks from the lenders.</p><p>Gold was another beneficiary of the move toward safer assets, touching an eight-month high of $1,900.99 an ounce.</p><p>Among other big movers, DoorDash Inc shot up 10.69% after it reported upbeat quarterly revenue as food delivery demand showed no sign of slowing.</p><p>Hasbro Inc gained 2.09% after activist investor Alta Fox Capital Management nominated five directors to the toymaker's board and urged changes including a spinoff of its unit housing games such as "Dungeons & Dragons".</p><p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 2.81-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.63-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 6 new 52-week highs and 19 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 27 new highs and 249 new lows.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>US STOCKS-Stocks Slide as Heightened Ukraine Tensions Weigh</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Financials also declined as U.S. Treasury yields moved lower.</p><p>Developments in Ukraine have added to uncertainty about the path of the Federal Reserve's tightening plans to fight inflation.</p><p>"There's a lot of nervousness out there and as we approach the weekend nothingās been settled between Russia and Ukraine," said Michael James, managing director, equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles.</p><p>"The continued weakness, especially in the growth names, is indicative of elevated nervousness and sellers continuing to swamp buyers in just about every stock."</p><p>The defensive utilities and consumer staples</p><p>sectors were Wall Street's only advancers, with staples getting a lift from a 4.01% jump in Walmart after it posted record holiday sales.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 622.24 points, or 1.78%, to 34,312.03, the S&P 500 lost 94.75 points, or 2.12%, to 4,380.26 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 407.38 points, or 2.88%, to 13,716.72.</p><p>The drop for the Dow was the biggest daily percentage decline since Nov. 30 while the Nasdaq's decline was its largest percentage fall since Feb. 3.</p><p>With the end of earnings season on the horizon, chipmaker Nvidia tumbled 7.51% as flat gross margins and concern about its exposure to the crypto market overshadowed an upbeat current-quarter revenue forecast, and helped give the Philadelphia Semiconductor index its first daily decline this week.</p><p>TripAdvisor Inc lost 2.50% after the hotel search website operator posted a surprise fourth-quarter loss. Albemarle Corp plunged 19.91% as the lithium producer forecast downbeat annual earnings.</p><p>As risk aversion pushed bond yields lower, big banks including JPMorgan Chase, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSTLW\">Morgan Stanley</a> and Bank of America all lost ground. Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo fell even after positive outlooks from the lenders.</p><p>Gold was another beneficiary of the move toward safer assets, touching an eight-month high of $1,900.99 an ounce.</p><p>Among other big movers, DoorDash Inc shot up 10.69% after it reported upbeat quarterly revenue as food delivery demand showed no sign of slowing.</p><p>Hasbro Inc gained 2.09% after activist investor Alta Fox Capital Management nominated five directors to the toymaker's board and urged changes including a spinoff of its unit housing games such as "Dungeons & Dragons".</p><p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 2.81-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.63-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 6 new 52-week highs and 19 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 27 new highs and 249 new lows.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BK4550":"ēŗ¢ęčµę¬ęä»",".DJI":"éē¼ęÆ","BK4141":"ååƼä½äŗ§å","BK4503":"ęÆęčµäŗ§ęä»","BK4545":"éēµę± ","BK4122":"äŗčē½äøē“éé¶å®",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","BK4207":"ē»¼åę§é¶č”","BK4551":"åÆå¾čµę¬ęä»",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","SANA":"Sana Biotechnology, Inc.","BK4505":"é«ē“čµę¬ęä»","JPM":"ę©ę ¹å¤§é","BK4504":"ꔄ갓ęä»","BK4549":"č½Æé¶čµę¬ęä»","NVDA":"č±ä¼č¾¾","BK4548":"å·“ē¾åę·ē¦ęä»","BK4127":"ęčµé¶č”äøäøē»ēŗŖäø","WMT":"ę²å°ē","BK4529":"IDCę¦åæµ","LABP":"Landos Biopharma, Inc.","ALB":"ē¾å½é äæ","HAS":"å©ä¹å®","TRIP":"ē«éé¹°","BK4190":"ę¶é²ēØå","BK4543":"AI","BK4554":"å å®å®åARę¦åæµ","BK4532":"ęčŗå¤å “ē§ęęä»","APR":"Apria, Inc.","BK4109":"ē¹ē§åå¦å¶å","BK4527":"ęęē§ęč”","CGEM":"Cullinan Therapeutics","LHDX":"Lucira Health, Inc.","GS":"é«ē","BK4567":"ESGę¦åæµ","BK4534":"ē士äæ”č“·ęä»","BK4139":"ēē©ē§ę","BK4077":"äŗåØåŖä½äøęå”","BK4533":"AQRčµę¬ē®”ē(å Øēē¬¬äŗ大åƹå²åŗé)","BK4007":"å¶čÆ","BK4196":"äæå„ę¤ēęå”","BK4536":"å¤åę¦åæµ","BK4566":"čµę¬éå¢","MS":"ę©ę ¹å£«äø¹å©","DASH":"DoorDash, Inc.","BK4535":"귔马é”ęä»","BK4082":"å»ēäæå„č®¾å¤","SPY":"ę ę®500ETF","BK4559":"å·“č²ē¹ęä»"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2212149643","content_text":"U.S. stocks slid on Thursday, with the S&P 500 marking its biggest daily percentage drop in two weeks, as investors shifted to defensive sectors and safe havens such as bonds and gold as geopolitical tensions between Washington and Russia over Ukraine flared.After Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels traded fire in eastern Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden said there was every indication Russia was planning to invade in the next few days and was preparing a pretext to justify it.Russia accused Biden of stoking tensions and released a strongly worded letter saying Washington was ignoring its security demands and threatening unspecified \"military-technical measures\".On Wall Street, the growth-oriented technology and communication services sectors were among the hardest hit. Financials also declined as U.S. Treasury yields moved lower.Developments in Ukraine have added to uncertainty about the path of the Federal Reserve's tightening plans to fight inflation.\"There's a lot of nervousness out there and as we approach the weekend nothingās been settled between Russia and Ukraine,\" said Michael James, managing director, equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles.\"The continued weakness, especially in the growth names, is indicative of elevated nervousness and sellers continuing to swamp buyers in just about every stock.\"The defensive utilities and consumer staplessectors were Wall Street's only advancers, with staples getting a lift from a 4.01% jump in Walmart after it posted record holiday sales.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 622.24 points, or 1.78%, to 34,312.03, the S&P 500 lost 94.75 points, or 2.12%, to 4,380.26 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 407.38 points, or 2.88%, to 13,716.72.The drop for the Dow was the biggest daily percentage decline since Nov. 30 while the Nasdaq's decline was its largest percentage fall since Feb. 3.With the end of earnings season on the horizon, chipmaker Nvidia tumbled 7.51% as flat gross margins and concern about its exposure to the crypto market overshadowed an upbeat current-quarter revenue forecast, and helped give the Philadelphia Semiconductor index its first daily decline this week.TripAdvisor Inc lost 2.50% after the hotel search website operator posted a surprise fourth-quarter loss. 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"That's really adding to elevated nervousness about further aggressive actions and what that will mean for commodities and inflation overall."</p><p>The Dow came within a hair's breadth of confirming it was in a correction on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 in the previous session confirmed it was in a correction when the index ended down more than 10% from its Jan. 3 closing record high. A correction is confirmed when an index closes 10% or more below its record closing level.</p><p>The Nasdaq has tumbled almost 19% from its record-high close on Nov. 19, nearing a 20% decline that many investors view as the definition of a bear market.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 464.85 points, or 1.38%, to 33,131.76, the S&P 500 lost 79.26 points, or 1.84%, to 4,225.5 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 344.03 points, or 2.57%, to 13,037.49.</p><p>Investors also have been on edge about possible aggressive tightening by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation.</p><p>"There's been geopolitical risks and rhetoric that have given investors that much more to be worried about," said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi.</p><p>"What it's done is exacerbate the momentum that was already in place to the downside," she said. "What we were seeing already coming into this was clearly a compression in multiples across a number of different highly valued areas of the market."</p><p>A Reuters poll showed the S&P 500 index still rising by end-2022.</p><p>In company news, shares of Lowe's Cos Inc ended slightly higher after the company raised full-year sales and profit forecasts.</p><p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the New York Stock Exchange by a 2.92-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.14-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 2 new 52-week highs and 39 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 24 new highs and 550 new lows.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 11.98 billion shares, compared with the roughly 12.3 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>US STOCKS-Wall Street Extends Selloff on Ukraine Worries</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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"That's really adding to elevated nervousness about further aggressive actions and what that will mean for commodities and inflation overall."</p><p>The Dow came within a hair's breadth of confirming it was in a correction on Wednesday, while the S&P 500 in the previous session confirmed it was in a correction when the index ended down more than 10% from its Jan. 3 closing record high. A correction is confirmed when an index closes 10% or more below its record closing level.</p><p>The Nasdaq has tumbled almost 19% from its record-high close on Nov. 19, nearing a 20% decline that many investors view as the definition of a bear market.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 464.85 points, or 1.38%, to 33,131.76, the S&P 500 lost 79.26 points, or 1.84%, to 4,225.5 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 344.03 points, or 2.57%, to 13,037.49.</p><p>Investors also have been on edge about possible aggressive tightening by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation.</p><p>"There's been geopolitical risks and rhetoric that have given investors that much more to be worried about," said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi.</p><p>"What it's done is exacerbate the momentum that was already in place to the downside," she said. 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A correction is confirmed when an index closes 10% or more below its record closing level.The Nasdaq has tumbled almost 19% from its record-high close on Nov. 19, nearing a 20% decline that many investors view as the definition of a bear market.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 464.85 points, or 1.38%, to 33,131.76, the S&P 500 lost 79.26 points, or 1.84%, to 4,225.5 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 344.03 points, or 2.57%, to 13,037.49.Investors also have been on edge about possible aggressive tightening by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation.\"There's been geopolitical risks and rhetoric that have given investors that much more to be worried about,\" said Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi.\"What it's done is exacerbate the momentum that was already in place to the downside,\" she said. \"What we were seeing already coming into this was clearly a compression in multiples across a number of different highly valued areas of the market.\"A Reuters poll showed the S&P 500 index still rising by end-2022.In company news, shares of Lowe's Cos Inc ended slightly higher after the company raised full-year sales and profit forecasts.Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the New York Stock Exchange by a 2.92-to-1 ratio; 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Financials also declined as U.S. Treasury yields moved lower.</p><p>Developments in Ukraine have added to uncertainty about the path of the Federal Reserve's tightening plans to fight inflation.</p><p>"There's a lot of nervousness out there and as we approach the weekend nothingās been settled between Russia and Ukraine," said Michael James, managing director, equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles.</p><p>"The continued weakness, especially in the growth names, is indicative of elevated nervousness and sellers continuing to swamp buyers in just about every stock."</p><p>The defensive utilities and consumer staples</p><p>sectors were Wall Street's only advancers, with staples getting a lift from a 4.01% jump in Walmart after it posted record holiday sales.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 622.24 points, or 1.78%, to 34,312.03, the S&P 500 lost 94.75 points, or 2.12%, to 4,380.26 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 407.38 points, or 2.88%, to 13,716.72.</p><p>The drop for the Dow was the biggest daily percentage decline since Nov. 30 while the Nasdaq's decline was its largest percentage fall since Feb. 3.</p><p>With the end of earnings season on the horizon, chipmaker Nvidia tumbled 7.51% as flat gross margins and concern about its exposure to the crypto market overshadowed an upbeat current-quarter revenue forecast, and helped give the Philadelphia Semiconductor index its first daily decline this week.</p><p>TripAdvisor Inc lost 2.50% after the hotel search website operator posted a surprise fourth-quarter loss. Albemarle Corp plunged 19.91% as the lithium producer forecast downbeat annual earnings.</p><p>As risk aversion pushed bond yields lower, big banks including JPMorgan Chase, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSTLW\">Morgan Stanley</a> and Bank of America all lost ground. Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo fell even after positive outlooks from the lenders.</p><p>Gold was another beneficiary of the move toward safer assets, touching an eight-month high of $1,900.99 an ounce.</p><p>Among other big movers, DoorDash Inc shot up 10.69% after it reported upbeat quarterly revenue as food delivery demand showed no sign of slowing.</p><p>Hasbro Inc gained 2.09% after activist investor Alta Fox Capital Management nominated five directors to the toymaker's board and urged changes including a spinoff of its unit housing games such as "Dungeons & Dragons".</p><p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 2.81-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.63-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 6 new 52-week highs and 19 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 27 new highs and 249 new lows.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>US STOCKS-Stocks Slide as Heightened Ukraine Tensions Weigh</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Financials also declined as U.S. Treasury yields moved lower.</p><p>Developments in Ukraine have added to uncertainty about the path of the Federal Reserve's tightening plans to fight inflation.</p><p>"There's a lot of nervousness out there and as we approach the weekend nothingās been settled between Russia and Ukraine," said Michael James, managing director, equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles.</p><p>"The continued weakness, especially in the growth names, is indicative of elevated nervousness and sellers continuing to swamp buyers in just about every stock."</p><p>The defensive utilities and consumer staples</p><p>sectors were Wall Street's only advancers, with staples getting a lift from a 4.01% jump in Walmart after it posted record holiday sales.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 622.24 points, or 1.78%, to 34,312.03, the S&P 500 lost 94.75 points, or 2.12%, to 4,380.26 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 407.38 points, or 2.88%, to 13,716.72.</p><p>The drop for the Dow was the biggest daily percentage decline since Nov. 30 while the Nasdaq's decline was its largest percentage fall since Feb. 3.</p><p>With the end of earnings season on the horizon, chipmaker Nvidia tumbled 7.51% as flat gross margins and concern about its exposure to the crypto market overshadowed an upbeat current-quarter revenue forecast, and helped give the Philadelphia Semiconductor index its first daily decline this week.</p><p>TripAdvisor Inc lost 2.50% after the hotel search website operator posted a surprise fourth-quarter loss. Albemarle Corp plunged 19.91% as the lithium producer forecast downbeat annual earnings.</p><p>As risk aversion pushed bond yields lower, big banks including JPMorgan Chase, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSTLW\">Morgan Stanley</a> and Bank of America all lost ground. Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo fell even after positive outlooks from the lenders.</p><p>Gold was another beneficiary of the move toward safer assets, touching an eight-month high of $1,900.99 an ounce.</p><p>Among other big movers, DoorDash Inc shot up 10.69% after it reported upbeat quarterly revenue as food delivery demand showed no sign of slowing.</p><p>Hasbro Inc gained 2.09% after activist investor Alta Fox Capital Management nominated five directors to the toymaker's board and urged changes including a spinoff of its unit housing games such as "Dungeons & Dragons".</p><p>Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 2.81-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.63-to-1 ratio favored decliners.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 6 new 52-week highs and 19 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 27 new highs and 249 new lows.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BK4550":"ēŗ¢ęčµę¬ęä»",".DJI":"éē¼ęÆ","BK4141":"ååƼä½äŗ§å","BK4503":"ęÆęčµäŗ§ęä»","BK4545":"éēµę± ","BK4122":"äŗčē½äøē“éé¶å®",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite","BK4207":"ē»¼åę§é¶č”","BK4551":"åÆå¾čµę¬ęä»",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index","SANA":"Sana Biotechnology, Inc.","BK4505":"é«ē“čµę¬ęä»","JPM":"ę©ę ¹å¤§é","BK4504":"ꔄ갓ęä»","BK4549":"č½Æé¶čµę¬ęä»","NVDA":"č±ä¼č¾¾","BK4548":"å·“ē¾åę·ē¦ęä»","BK4127":"ęčµé¶č”äøäøē»ēŗŖäø","WMT":"ę²å°ē","BK4529":"IDCę¦åæµ","LABP":"Landos Biopharma, Inc.","ALB":"ē¾å½é äæ","HAS":"å©ä¹å®","TRIP":"ē«éé¹°","BK4190":"ę¶é²ēØå","BK4543":"AI","BK4554":"å å®å®åARę¦åæµ","BK4532":"ęčŗå¤å “ē§ęęä»","APR":"Apria, Inc.","BK4109":"ē¹ē§åå¦å¶å","BK4527":"ęęē§ęč”","CGEM":"Cullinan Therapeutics","LHDX":"Lucira Health, Inc.","GS":"é«ē","BK4567":"ESGę¦åæµ","BK4534":"ē士äæ”č“·ęä»","BK4139":"ēē©ē§ę","BK4077":"äŗåØåŖä½äøęå”","BK4533":"AQRčµę¬ē®”ē(å Øēē¬¬äŗ大åƹå²åŗé)","BK4007":"å¶čÆ","BK4196":"äæå„ę¤ēęå”","BK4536":"å¤åę¦åæµ","BK4566":"čµę¬éå¢","MS":"ę©ę ¹å£«äø¹å©","DASH":"DoorDash, Inc.","BK4535":"귔马é”ęä»","BK4082":"å»ēäæå„č®¾å¤","SPY":"ę ę®500ETF","BK4559":"å·“č²ē¹ęä»"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2212149643","content_text":"U.S. stocks slid on Thursday, with the S&P 500 marking its biggest daily percentage drop in two weeks, as investors shifted to defensive sectors and safe havens such as bonds and gold as geopolitical tensions between Washington and Russia over Ukraine flared.After Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels traded fire in eastern Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden said there was every indication Russia was planning to invade in the next few days and was preparing a pretext to justify it.Russia accused Biden of stoking tensions and released a strongly worded letter saying Washington was ignoring its security demands and threatening unspecified \"military-technical measures\".On Wall Street, the growth-oriented technology and communication services sectors were among the hardest hit. Financials also declined as U.S. Treasury yields moved lower.Developments in Ukraine have added to uncertainty about the path of the Federal Reserve's tightening plans to fight inflation.\"There's a lot of nervousness out there and as we approach the weekend nothingās been settled between Russia and Ukraine,\" said Michael James, managing director, equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles.\"The continued weakness, especially in the growth names, is indicative of elevated nervousness and sellers continuing to swamp buyers in just about every stock.\"The defensive utilities and consumer staplessectors were Wall Street's only advancers, with staples getting a lift from a 4.01% jump in Walmart after it posted record holiday sales.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 622.24 points, or 1.78%, to 34,312.03, the S&P 500 lost 94.75 points, or 2.12%, to 4,380.26 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 407.38 points, or 2.88%, to 13,716.72.The drop for the Dow was the biggest daily percentage decline since Nov. 30 while the Nasdaq's decline was its largest percentage fall since Feb. 3.With the end of earnings season on the horizon, chipmaker Nvidia tumbled 7.51% as flat gross margins and concern about its exposure to the crypto market overshadowed an upbeat current-quarter revenue forecast, and helped give the Philadelphia Semiconductor index its first daily decline this week.TripAdvisor Inc lost 2.50% after the hotel search website operator posted a surprise fourth-quarter loss. Albemarle Corp plunged 19.91% as the lithium producer forecast downbeat annual earnings.As risk aversion pushed bond yields lower, big banks including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America all lost ground. Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo fell even after positive outlooks from the lenders.Gold was another beneficiary of the move toward safer assets, touching an eight-month high of $1,900.99 an ounce.Among other big movers, DoorDash Inc shot up 10.69% after it reported upbeat quarterly revenue as food delivery demand showed no sign of slowing.Hasbro Inc gained 2.09% after activist investor Alta Fox Capital Management nominated five directors to the toymaker's board and urged changes including a spinoff of its unit housing games such as \"Dungeons & Dragons\".Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 2.81-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.63-to-1 ratio favored decliners.The S&P 500 posted 6 new 52-week highs and 19 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 27 new highs and 249 new lows.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":456,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9038843890,"gmtCreate":1646796914374,"gmtModify":1676534163653,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great š ","listText":"Great š ","text":"Great š","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9038843890","repostId":"2218045604","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":639,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9030238641,"gmtCreate":1645740206403,"gmtModify":1676534058115,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Pity I didn't buy.","listText":"Pity I didn't buy.","text":"Pity I didn't buy.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9030238641","repostId":"1165158876","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":673,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9095321166,"gmtCreate":1644831351176,"gmtModify":1676533965860,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"š±","listText":"š±","text":"š±","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9095321166","repostId":"1128182297","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1128182297","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1644829228,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1128182297?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-14 17:00","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Tesla Shares Fell 2.56% in Premarket Trading","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1128182297","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"TeslaĀ sharesĀ fellĀ 2.56%Ā inĀ premarketĀ trading.U.S. electric vehicle maker TeslaĀ Inc sold 59,845 China","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>TeslaĀ sharesĀ fellĀ 2.56%Ā inĀ premarketĀ trading.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ac63d0b10b92f7b7991e3f94fc5d7c97\" tg-width=\"712\" tg-height=\"605\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/>U.S. electric vehicle maker TeslaĀ Inc sold 59,845 China-made vehicles in January, down 15.5% month-on-month,Ā China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said on Monday.</p><p>CPCA said all passenger car sales in January in China totalled 2.11 million, down 4.5% from a year earlier.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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The 91-yea","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses heās assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading āOur Four Giantsā and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshireās cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>āTim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well,ā the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cookās stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone makerās earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>āApple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,ā Buffett said in the letter. āThat increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.ā</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffettās investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshireās equity portfolio.</p><p>āItās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,ā Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Appleās largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>āBNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,ā Buffett said. āBHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.ā</p><p><b>Read the full letter hereļ¼</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 ā K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that ā on occasion ā it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>ā¢ Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based āinfrastructureā assets ā classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment ā than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshireās balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>ā¢ Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. āI gave at the officeā is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshireās history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that āThe combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.ā That upbeat view was endorsed by the companyās advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>Iām sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshireās owners watched the companyās net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshireās struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshireās troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period ā a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshireās owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their āsilent partner,ā the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge ā indeed trumpet ā the fact that Berkshireās prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>ā¢ From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance āfloatā ā money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshireās total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (āgenerally-accepted accounting principlesā) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshireās good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, āNone.ā</p><p>I said, āNobodyās perfect,ā and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be ā 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely ā but far from assured ā that Berkshireās float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer ā and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>ā¢ Nevertheless, operations of our āBig Fourā companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshireās value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshireās operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>ā¢ Apple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.</p><p>Itās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well.</p><p>ā¢ BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, Americaās carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive āadjustmentsā to earnings ā to use a polite description ā have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>ā¢ BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. Thatās up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHEās record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokolās and Greg Abelās leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Gregās report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable āgreen-washingā stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHEās website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now letās talk about companies we donāt control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshireās two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the āequityā method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted āequityā accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilotās earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshireās balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 1ļ¤2 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% ā and still is. Berkshireās current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshireās controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshireās resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>Thatās largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshireās owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moodyās).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We donāt want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost ofĀ $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshireās buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As weāve discussed, insurance āfloatā of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of āfloatā per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% ā going from $79,387 per āAā share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life ā in both his business and his personal pursuits ā Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaledĀ $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friendās early death and the disastrous results that followed for that manās family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative āsynergiesā ā savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirerās home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled ā aptly so ā a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an āexit strategy.ā And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying ā in far more tactful phrasing than this ā āAfter a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.ā So, I made an offer and Paul said āYes.ā One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, āWe can talk about that next year, Warren; Iām too busy now.ā</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paulās memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTIās first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary ā geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck ā occasionally extraordinary luck ā has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend ā John Roach ā TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiaryās CEO and learn more about the acquireeās activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroadās headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our boardās opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSFās third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroadās results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSFās earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasnāt feeling friendly to railroads ā or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here Iāll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadnāt sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally āretiringā from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandsonās fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that āsecretsā are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be āworking.ā</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfatherās grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now āworkedā for many decades with people whom we like and trust. Itās a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people ā no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we canāt select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching ātil death do us part.ā Often, they have trusted us with a largeĀ ā some might say excessive ā portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the āpartnersā Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, āIt feels good to āworkā for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.ā</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. āCousinā Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon āpartyā boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmyās masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his familyās use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. 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The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.</p><p>Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses heās assembled over the last five decades.</p><p>In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading āOur Four Giantsā and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshireās cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.</p><p>āTim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well,ā the letter stated.</p><p>Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cookās stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone makerās earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.</p><p>āApple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,ā Buffett said in the letter. āThat increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.ā</p><p>Berkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffettās investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshireās equity portfolio.</p><p>āItās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,ā Buffett said.</p><p>Berkshire is Appleās largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.</p><p>Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.</p><p>āBNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,ā Buffett said. āBHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.ā</p><p><b>Read the full letter hereļ¼</b></p><p>To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:</p><p>Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.</p><p>Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.</p><p>Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.</p><p>A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 ā K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.</p><p>Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.</p><p><b>What You Own</b></p><p>Berkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.</p><p>Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.</p><p>I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that ā on occasion ā it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.</p><h2><b>Surprise, Surprise</b></h2><p>Here are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:</p><p>ā¢ Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based āinfrastructureā assets ā classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment ā than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.</p><p>At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshireās balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.</p><p>ā¢ Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid</p><p>$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. āI gave at the officeā is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.</p><p>Berkshireās history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.</p><p></p><p>The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that āThe combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.ā That upbeat view was endorsed by the companyās advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).</p><p>Iām sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.</p><p>In the nine years following the merger, Berkshireās owners watched the companyās net worth crater from</p><p>$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshireās struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.</p><p>During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshireās troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period ā a pathetic $100 per day.</p><p>Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.</p><p>Berkshireās owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their āsilent partner,ā the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.</p><p>In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge ā indeed trumpet ā the fact that Berkshireās prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.</p><p>ā¢ From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance āfloatā ā money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshireās total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.</p><p>So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.</p><p>Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.</p><p>If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (āgenerally-accepted accounting principlesā) presentation of earnings and net worth.</p><p>Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshireās good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, āNone.ā</p><p>I said, āNobodyās perfect,ā and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be ā 35 years later.</p><p>One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely ā but far from assured ā that Berkshireās float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.</p><p>Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer ā and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.</p><h2>Our Four Giants</h2><p>Through Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.</p><p>ā¢ Nevertheless, operations of our āBig Fourā companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshireās value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.</p><p>The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.</p><p>There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshireās operation, however, would be almost impossible.</p><p>ā¢ Apple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.</p><p>Itās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well.</p><p>ā¢ BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, Americaās carbon emissions would soar.</p><p>Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive āadjustmentsā to earnings ā to use a polite description ā have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )</p><p>BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.</p><p>ā¢ BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. Thatās up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.</p><p>BHEās record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokolās and Greg Abelās leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.</p><p>Gregās report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable āgreen-washingā stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.</p><p>To further review this information, visit BHEās website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.</p><h2>Investments</h2><p>Now letās talk about companies we donāt control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshireās two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d43587e9f59c0ff76e6c04c6bf9af324\" tg-width=\"1047\" tg-height=\"530\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/>* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.</p><p>** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.</p><p>*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.</p><p>In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the āequityā method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.</p><p>Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted āequityā accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilotās earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.</p><h2>U.S. Treasury Bills</h2><p>Berkshireās balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 1ļ¤2 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.</p><p>Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.</p><h2>But $144 billion?</h2><p>That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)</p><p>After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% ā and still is. Berkshireās current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.</p><p>Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.</p><h2>Share Repurchases</h2><p>There are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshireās controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshireās resources.</p><p>Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.</p><p>Thatās largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.</p><p>Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)</p><p>Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshireās owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moodyās).</p><p>I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We donāt want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost ofĀ $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.</p><p>It should be noted that Berkshireās buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.</p><p>Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As weāve discussed, insurance āfloatā of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of āfloatā per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% ā going from $79,387 per āAā share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.</p><h2>A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful Business</h2><p>Last year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life ā in both his business and his personal pursuits ā Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.</p><p>In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.</p><p>With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaledĀ $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.</p><p>But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friendās early death and the disastrous results that followed for that manās family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?</p><p>For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative āsynergiesā ā savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.</p><p>But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirerās home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.</p><p>Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled ā aptly so ā a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an āexit strategy.ā And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.</p><p>When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying ā in far more tactful phrasing than this ā āAfter a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.ā So, I made an offer and Paul said āYes.ā One meeting; one lunch; one deal.</p><p>To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.</p><p>Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, āWe can talk about that next year, Warren; Iām too busy now.ā</p><p>When Greg Abel and I attended Paulās memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTIās first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.</p><p>At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary ā geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.</p><p>In all ways, Paul was a class act.</p><p>* * * * * * * * * * * *</p><p>Good luck ā occasionally extraordinary luck ā has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend ā John Roach ā TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.</p><p>Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiaryās CEO and learn more about the acquireeās activities.</p><p>In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroadās headquarters.</p><p>Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our boardās opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSFās third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.</p><p>The market reacted badly to the railroadās results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSFās earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasnāt feeling friendly to railroads ā or much else.</p><p>On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.</p><p>Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here Iāll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.</p><p>The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadnāt sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.</p><h2>Thanks</h2><p>I taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally āretiringā from that pursuit in 2018.</p><p>Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandsonās fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that āsecretsā are catnip to kids.</p><p>Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.</p><p>Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be āworking.ā</p><p>Charlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfatherās grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.</p><p>Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now āworkedā for many decades with people whom we like and trust. Itās a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people ā no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.</p><p>I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction working</p><p>for you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.</p><p>Obviously, we canāt select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.</p><p>To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching ātil death do us part.ā Often, they have trusted us with a largeĀ ā some might say excessive ā portion of their savings.</p><p>Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.</p><p>Long-term individual owners are both the āpartnersā Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, āIt feels good to āworkā for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.ā</p><h2>The Annual Meeting</h2><p>Clear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.</p><p>I will end this letter with a sales pitch. āCousinā Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon āpartyā boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmyās masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his familyās use. Join me.</p><p>February 26, 2022</p><p>Warren E. Buffett Chairman of the Board</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BRK.A":"ä¼Æå åøå°","BRK.B":"ä¼Æå åøå°B"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1125580913","content_text":"Warren Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. The 91-year-old investing legend has been publishing the letter for over six decades and it has become required reading for investors around the world.Warren Buffett said he now considers tech giant Apple as one of the four pillars driving Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate of mostly old-economy businesses heās assembled over the last five decades.In his annual letter to shareholders released on Saturday, the 91-year-old investing legend listed Apple under the heading āOur Four Giantsā and even called the company the second-most important after Berkshireās cluster of insurers, thanks to its chief executive.āTim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well,ā the letter stated.Buffett made clear he is a fan of Cookās stock repurchase strategy, and how it gives the conglomerate increased ownership of each dollar of the iPhone makerās earnings without the investor having to lift a finger.āApple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier,ā Buffett said in the letter. āThat increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.āBerkshire began buying Apple stock in 2016 under the influence of Buffettās investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. By mid-2018, the conglomerate accumulated 5% ownership of the iPhone maker, a stake that cost $36 billion. Today, the Apple investment is now worth more than $160 billion, taking up 40% of Berkshireās equity portfolio.āItās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud,ā Buffett said.Berkshire is Appleās largest shareholder, outside of index and exchange-traded fund providers.Buffett also credited his railroad business BNSF and energy segment BHE as two other giants of the conglomerate, which both registered record earnings in 2021.āBNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire,ā Buffett said. āBHE has become a utility powerhouse and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.āRead the full letter hereļ¼To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.:Charlie Munger, my long-time partner, and I have the job of managing a portion of your savings. We are honored by your trust.Our position carries with it the responsibility to report to you what we would like to know if we were the absentee owner and you were the manager. We enjoy communicating directly with you through this annual letter, and through the annual meeting as well.Our policy is to treat all shareholders equally. Therefore, we do not hold discussions with analysts nor large institutions. Whenever possible, also, we release important communications on Saturday mornings in order to maximize the time for shareholders and the media to absorb the news before markets open on Monday.A wealth of Berkshire facts and figures are set forth in the annual 10-K that the company regularly files with the S.E.C. and that we reproduce on pages K-1 ā K-119. Some shareholders will find this detail engrossing; others will simply prefer to learn what Charlie and I believe is new or interesting at Berkshire.Alas, there was little action of that sort in 2021. We did, though, make reasonable progress in increasing the intrinsic value of your shares. That task has been my primary duty for 57 years. And it will continue to be.What You OwnBerkshire owns a wide variety of businesses, some in their entirety, some only in part. The second group largely consists of marketable common stocks of major American companies. Additionally, we own a few non-U.S. equities and participate in several joint ventures or other collaborative activities.Whatever our form of ownership, our goal is to have meaningful investments in businesses with both durable economic advantages and a first-class CEO. Please note particularly that we own stocks based upon our expectations about their long-term business performance and not because we view them as vehicles for timely market moves. That point is crucial: Charlie and I are not stock-pickers; we are business-pickers.I make many mistakes. Consequently, our extensive collection of businesses includes some enterprises that have truly extraordinary economics, many others that enjoy good economic characteristics, and a few that are marginal. One advantage of our common-stock segment is that ā on occasion ā it becomes easy to buy pieces of wonderful businesses at wonderful prices. That shooting-fish-in-a-barrel experience is very rare in negotiated transactions and never occurs en masse. It is also far easier to exit from a mistake when it has been made in the marketable arena.Surprise, SurpriseHere are a few items about your company that often surprise even seasoned investors:ā¢ Many people perceive Berkshire as a large and somewhat strange collection of financial assets. In truth, Berkshire owns and operates more U.S.-based āinfrastructureā assets ā classified on our balance sheet as property, plant and equipment ā than are owned and operated by any other American corporation. That supremacy has never been our goal. It has, however, become a fact.At yearend, those domestic infrastructure assets were carried on Berkshireās balance sheet at $158 billion. That number increased last year and will continue to increase. Berkshire always will be building.ā¢ Every year, your company makes substantial federal income tax payments. In 2021, for example, we paid$3.3 billion while the U.S. Treasury reported total corporate income-tax receipts of $402 billion. Additionally, Berkshire pays substantial state and foreign taxes. āI gave at the officeā is an unassailable assertion when made by Berkshire shareholders.Berkshireās history vividly illustrates the invisible and often unrecognized financial partnership between government and American businesses. Our tale begins early in 1955, when Berkshire Fine Spinning and Hathaway Manufacturing agreed to merge their businesses. In their requests for shareholder approval, these venerable New England textile companies expressed high hopes for the combination.The Hathaway solicitation, for example, assured its shareholders that āThe combination of the resources and managements will result in one of the strongest and most efficient organizations in the textile industry.ā That upbeat view was endorsed by the companyās advisor, Lehman Brothers (yes, that Lehman Brothers).Iām sure it was a joyous day in both Fall River (Berkshire) and New Bedford (Hathaway) when the union was consummated. After the bands stopped playing and the bankers went home, however, the shareholders reaped a disaster.In the nine years following the merger, Berkshireās owners watched the companyās net worth crater from$51.4 million to $22.1 million. In part, this decline was caused by stock repurchases, ill-advised dividends and plant shutdowns. But nine years of effort by many thousands of employees delivered an operating loss as well. Berkshireās struggles were not unusual: The New England textile industry had silently entered an extended and non-reversible death march.During the nine post-merger years, the U.S. Treasury suffered as well from Berkshireās troubles. All told, the company paid the government only $337,359 in income tax during that period ā a pathetic $100 per day.Early in 1965, things changed. Berkshire installed new management that redeployed available cash and steered essentially all earnings into a variety of good businesses, most of which remained good through the years. Coupling reinvestment of earnings with the power of compounding worked its magic, and shareholders prospered.Berkshireās owners, it should be noted, were not the only beneficiary of that course correction. Their āsilent partner,ā the U.S. Treasury, proceeded to collect many tens of billions of dollars from the company in income tax payments. Remember the $100 daily? Now, Berkshire pays roughly $9 million daily to the Treasury.In fairness to our governmental partner, our shareholders should acknowledge ā indeed trumpet ā the fact that Berkshireās prosperity has been fostered mightily because the company has operated in America. Our country would have done splendidly in the years since 1965 without Berkshire. Absent our American home, however, Berkshire would never have come close to becoming what it is today. When you see the flag, say thanks.ā¢ From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance āfloatā ā money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshireās total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.If you are not already familiar with the concept of float, I refer you to a long explanation on page A-5. To my surprise, our float increased $9 billion last year, a buildup of value that is important to Berkshire owners though is not reflected in our GAAP (āgenerally-accepted accounting principlesā) presentation of earnings and net worth.Much of our huge value creation in insurance is attributable to Berkshireās good luck in my 1986 hiring of Ajit Jain. We first met on a Saturday morning, and I quickly asked Ajit what his insurance experience had been. He replied, āNone.āI said, āNobodyās perfect,ā and hired him. That was my lucky day: Ajit actually was as perfect a choice as could have been made. Better yet, he continues to be ā 35 years later.One final thought about insurance: I believe that it is likely ā but far from assured ā that Berkshireās float can be maintained without our incurring a long-term underwriting loss. I am certain, however, that there will be some years when we experience such losses, perhaps involving very large sums.Berkshire is constructed to handle catastrophic events as no other insurer ā and that priority will remain long after Charlie and I are gone.Our Four GiantsThrough Berkshire, our shareholders own many dozens of businesses. Some of these, in turn, have a collection of subsidiaries of their own. For example, Marmon has more than 100 individual business operations, ranging from the leasing of railroad cars to the manufacture of medical devices.ā¢ Nevertheless, operations of our āBig Fourā companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshireās value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshireās operation, however, would be almost impossible.ā¢ Apple ā our runner-up Giant as measured by its yearend market value ā is a different sort of holding. Here, our ownership is a mere 5.55%, up from 5.39% a year earlier. That increase sounds like small potatoes. But consider that each 0.1% of Appleās 2021 earnings amounted to $100 million. We spent no Berkshire funds to gain our accretion. Appleās repurchases did the job.Itās important to understand that only dividends from Apple are counted in the GAAP earnings Berkshire reports ā and last year, Apple paid us $785 million of those. Yet our āshareā of Appleās earnings amounted to a staggering $5.6 billion. Much of what the company retained was used to repurchase Apple shares, an act we applaud. Tim Cook, Appleās brilliant CEO, quite properly regards users of Apple products as his first love, but all of his other constituencies benefit from Timās managerial touch as well.ā¢ BNSF, our third Giant, continues to be the number one artery of American commerce, which makes it an indispensable asset for America as well as for Berkshire. If the many essential products BNSF carries were instead hauled by truck, Americaās carbon emissions would soar.Your railroad had record earnings of $6 billion in 2021. Here, it should be noted, we are talking about the old-fashioned sort of earnings that we favor: a figure calculated after interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and all forms of compensation. (Our definition suggests a warning: Deceptive āadjustmentsā to earnings ā to use a polite description ā have become both more frequent and more fanciful as stocks have risen. Speaking less politely, I would say that bull markets breed bloviated bull )BNSF trains traveled 143 million miles last year and carried 535 million tons of cargo. Both accomplishments far exceed those of any other American carrier. You can be proud of your railroad.ā¢ BHE, our final Giant, earned a record $4 billion in 2021. Thatās up more than 30-fold from the $122 million earned in 2000, the year that Berkshire first purchased a BHE stake. Now, Berkshire owns 91.1% of the company.BHEās record of societal accomplishment is as remarkable as its financial performance. The company had no wind or solar generation in 2000. It was then regarded simply as a relatively new and minor participant in the huge electric utility industry. Subsequently, under David Sokolās and Greg Abelās leadership, BHE has become a utility powerhouse (no groaning, please) and a leading force in wind, solar and transmission throughout much of the United States.Gregās report on these accomplishments appears on pages A-3 and A-4. The profile you will find there is not in any way one of those currently-fashionable āgreen-washingā stories. BHE has been faithfully detailing its plans and performance in renewables and transmissions every year since 2007.To further review this information, visit BHEās website at brkenergy.com. There, you will see that the company has long been making climate-conscious moves that soak up all of its earnings. More opportunities lie ahead. BHE has the management, the experience, the capital and the appetite for the huge power projects that our country needs.InvestmentsNow letās talk about companies we donāt control, a list that again references Apple. Below we list our fifteen largest equity holdings, several of which are selections of Berkshireās two long-time investment managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. At yearend, this valued pair had total authority in respect to $34 billion of investments, many of which do not meet the threshold value we use in the table. Also, a significant portion of the dollars that Todd and Ted manage are lodged in various pension plans of Berkshire-owned businesses, with the assets of these plans not included in this table.* This is our actual purchase price and also our tax basis.** Held by BHE; consequently, Berkshire shareholders have only a 91.1% interest in this position.*** Includes a $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, consisting of preferred stock and warrants to buy common stock, a combination now being valued at $10.7 billion.In addition to the footnoted Occidental holding and our various common-stock positions, Berkshire also owns a 26.6% interest in Kraft Heinz (accounted for on the āequityā method, not market value, and carried at $13.1 billion) and 38.6% of Pilot Corp., a leader in travel centers that had revenues last year of $45 billion.Since we purchased our Pilot stake in 2017, this holding has warranted āequityā accounting treatment. Early in 2023, Berkshire will purchase an additional interest in Pilot that will raise our ownership to 80% and lead to our fully consolidating Pilotās earnings, assets and liabilities in our financial statements.U.S. Treasury BillsBerkshireās balance sheet includes $144 billion of cash and cash equivalents (excluding the holdings of BNSF and BHE). Of this sum, $120 billion is held in U.S. Treasury bills, all maturing in less than a year. That stake leaves Berkshire financing about 1ļ¤2 of 1% of the publicly-held national debt.Charlie and I have pledged that Berkshire (along with our subsidiaries other than BNSF and BHE) will always hold more than $30 billion of cash and equivalents. We want your company to be financially impregnable and never dependent on the kindness of strangers (or even that of friends). Both of us like to sleep soundly, and we want our creditors, insurance claimants and you to do so as well.But $144 billion?That imposing sum, I assure you, is not some deranged expression of patriotism. Nor have Charlie and I lost our overwhelming preference for business ownership. Indeed, I first manifested my enthusiasm for that 80 years ago, on March 11, 1942, when I purchased three shares of Cities Services preferred stock. Their cost was $114.75 and required all of my savings. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average that day closed at 99, a fact that should scream to you: Never bet against America.)After my initial plunge, I always kept at least 80% of my net worth in equities. My favored status throughout that period was 100% ā and still is. Berkshireās current 80%-or-so position in businesses is a consequence of my failure to find entire companies or small portions thereof (that is, marketable stocks) which meet our criteria for long- term holding.Charlie and I have endured similar cash-heavy positions from time to time in the past. These periods are never pleasant; they are also never permanent. And, fortunately, we have had a mildly attractive alternative during 2020 and 2021 for deploying capital. Read on.Share RepurchasesThere are three ways that we can increase the value of your investment. The first is always front and center in our minds: Increase the long-term earning power of Berkshireās controlled businesses through internal growth or by making acquisitions. Today, internal opportunities deliver far better returns than acquisitions. The size of those opportunities, however, is small compared to Berkshireās resources.Our second choice is to buy non-controlling part-interests in the many good or great businesses that are publicly traded. From time to time, such possibilities are both numerous and blatantly attractive. Today, though, we find little that excites us.Thatās largely because of a truism: Long-term interest rates that are low push the prices of all productive investments upward, whether these are stocks, apartments, farms, oil wells, whatever. Other factors influence valuations as well, but interest rates will always be important.Our final path to value creation is to repurchase Berkshire shares. Through that simple act, we increase your share of the many controlled and non-controlled businesses Berkshire owns. When the price/value equation is right, this path is the easiest and most certain way for us to increase your wealth. (Alongside the accretion of value to continuing shareholders, a couple of other parties gain: Repurchases are modestly beneficial to the seller of the repurchased shares and to society as well.)Periodically, as alternative paths become unattractive, repurchases make good sense for Berkshireās owners. During the past two years, we therefore repurchased 9% of the shares that were outstanding at yearend 2019 for a total cost of $51.7 billion. That expenditure left our continuing shareholders owning about 10% more of all Berkshire businesses, whether these are wholly-owned (such as BNSF and GEICO) or partly-owned (such as Coca-Cola and Moodyās).I want to underscore that for Berkshire repurchases to make sense, our shares must offer appropriate value. We donāt want to overpay for the shares of other companies, and it would be value-destroying if we were to overpay when we are buying Berkshire. As of February 23, 2022, since yearend we repurchased additional shares at a cost ofĀ $1.2 billion. Our appetite remains large but will always remain price-dependent.It should be noted that Berkshireās buyback opportunities are limited because of its high-class investor base. If our shares were heavily held by short-term speculators, both price volatility and transaction volumes would materially increase. That kind of reshaping would offer us far greater opportunities for creating value by making repurchases. Nevertheless, Charlie and I far prefer the owners we have, even though their admirable buy-and-keep attitudes limit the extent to which long-term shareholders can profit from opportunistic repurchases.Finally, one easily-overlooked value calculation specific to Berkshire: As weāve discussed, insurance āfloatā of the right sort is of great value to us. As it happens, repurchases automatically increase the amount of āfloatā per share. That figure has increased during the past two years by 25% ā going from $79,387 per āAā share to $99,497, a meaningful gain that, as noted, owes some thanks to repurchases.A Wonderful Man and a Wonderful BusinessLast year, Paul Andrews died. Paul was the founder and CEO of TTI, a Fort Worth-based subsidiary of Berkshire. Throughout his life ā in both his business and his personal pursuits ā Paul quietly displayed all the qualities that Charlie and I admire. His story should be told.In 1971, Paul was working as a purchasing agent for General Dynamics when the roof fell in. After losing a huge defense contract, the company fired thousands of employees, including Paul.With his first child due soon, Paul decided to bet on himself, using $500 of his savings to found Tex-Tronics (later renamed TTI). The company set itself up to distribute small electronic components, and first-year sales totaledĀ $112,000. Today, TTI markets more than one million different items with annual volume of $7.7 billion.But back to 2006: Paul, at 63, then found himself happy with his family, his job, and his associates. But he had one nagging worry, heightened because he had recently witnessed a friendās early death and the disastrous results that followed for that manās family and business. What, Paul asked himself in 2006, would happen to the many people depending on him if he should unexpectedly die?For a year, Paul wrestled with his options. Sell to a competitor? From a strictly economic viewpoint, that course made the most sense. After all, competitors could envision lucrative āsynergiesā ā savings that would be achieved as the acquiror slashed duplicated functions at TTI.But . . . Such a purchaser would most certainly also retain its CFO, its legal counsel, its HR unit. Their TTI counterparts would therefore be sent packing. And ugh! If a new distribution center were to be needed, the acquirerās home city would certainly be favored over Fort Worth.Whatever the financial benefits, Paul quickly concluded that selling to a competitor was not for him. He next considered seeking a financial buyer, a species once labeled ā aptly so ā a leveraged buyout firm. Paul knew, however, that such a purchaser would be focused on an āexit strategy.ā And who could know what that would be? Brooding over it all, Paul found himself having no interest in handing his 35-year-old creation over to a reseller.When Paul met me, he explained why he had eliminated these two alternatives as buyers. He then summed up his dilemma by saying ā in far more tactful phrasing than this ā āAfter a year of pondering the alternatives, I want to sell to Berkshire because you are the only guy left.ā So, I made an offer and Paul said āYes.ā One meeting; one lunch; one deal.To say we both lived happily ever after is an understatement. When Berkshire purchased TTI, the company employed 2,387. Now the number is 8,043. A large percentage of that growth took place in Fort Worth and environs. Earnings have increased 673%.Annually, I would call Paul and tell him his salary should be substantially increased. Annually, he would tell me, āWe can talk about that next year, Warren; Iām too busy now.āWhen Greg Abel and I attended Paulās memorial service, we met children, grandchildren, long-time associates (including TTIās first employee) and John Roach, the former CEO of a Fort Worth company Berkshire had purchased in 2000. John had steered his friend Paul to Omaha, instinctively knowing we would be a match.At the service, Greg and I heard about the multitudes of people and organizations that Paul had silently supported. The breadth of his generosity was extraordinary ā geared always to improving the lives of others, particularly those in Fort Worth.In all ways, Paul was a class act.* * * * * * * * * * * *Good luck ā occasionally extraordinary luck ā has played its part at Berkshire. If Paul and I had not enjoyed a mutual friend ā John Roach ā TTI would not have found its home with us. But that ample serving of luck was only the beginning. TTI was soon to lead Berkshire to its most important acquisition.Every fall, Berkshire directors gather for a presentation by a few of our executives. We sometimes choose the site based upon the location of a recent acquisition, by that means allowing directors to meet the new subsidiaryās CEO and learn more about the acquireeās activities.In the fall of 2009, we consequently selected Fort Worth so that we could visit TTI. At that time, BNSF, which also had Fort Worth as its hometown, was the third-largest holding among our marketable equities. Despite that large stake, I had never visited the railroadās headquarters.Deb Bosanek, my assistant, scheduled our boardās opening dinner for October 22. Meanwhile, I arranged to arrive earlier that day to meet with Matt Rose, CEO of BNSF, whose accomplishments I had long admired. When I made the date, I had no idea that our get-together would coincide with BNSFās third-quarter earnings report, which was released late on the 22nd.The market reacted badly to the railroadās results. The Great Recession was in full force in the third quarter, and BNSFās earnings reflected that slump. The economic outlook was also bleak, and Wall Street wasnāt feeling friendly to railroads ā or much else.On the following day, I again got together with Matt and suggested that Berkshire would offer the railroad a better long-term home than it could expect as a public company. I also told him the maximum price that Berkshire would pay.Matt relayed the offer to his directors and advisors. Eleven busy days later, Berkshire and BNSF announced a firm deal. And here Iāll venture a rare prediction: BNSF will be a key asset for Berkshire and our country a century from now.The BNSF acquisition would never have happened if Paul Andrews hadnāt sized up Berkshire as the right home for TTI.ThanksI taught my first investing class 70 years ago. Since then, I have enjoyed working almost every year with students of all ages, finally āretiringā from that pursuit in 2018.Along the way, my toughest audience was my grandsonās fifth-grade class. The 11-year-olds were squirming in their seats and giving me blank stares until I mentioned Coca-Cola and its famous secret formula. Instantly, every hand went up, and I learned that āsecretsā are catnip to kids.Teaching, like writing, has helped me develop and clarify my own thoughts. Charlie calls this phenomenon the orangutan effect: If you sit down with an orangutan and carefully explain to it one of your cherished ideas, you may leave behind a puzzled primate, but will yourself exit thinking more clearly.Talking to university students is far superior. I have urged that they seek employment in (1) the field and (2) with the kind of people they would select, if they had no need for money. Economic realities, I acknowledge, may interfere with that kind of search. Even so, I urge the students never to give up the quest, for when they find that sort of job, they will no longer be āworking.āCharlie and I, ourselves, followed that liberating course after a few early stumbles. We both started as part- timers at my grandfatherās grocery store, Charlie in 1940 and I in 1942. We were each assigned boring tasks and paid little, definitely not what we had in mind. Charlie later took up law, and I tried selling securities. Job satisfaction continued to elude us.Finally, at Berkshire, we found what we love to do. With very few exceptions, we have now āworkedā for many decades with people whom we like and trust. Itās a joy in life to join with managers such as Paul Andrews or the Berkshire families I told you about last year. In our home office, we employ decent and talented people ā no jerks. Turnover averages, perhaps, one person per year.I would like, however, to emphasize a further item that turns our jobs into fun and satisfaction workingfor you. There is nothing more rewarding to Charlie and me than enjoying the trust of individual long-term shareholders who, for many decades, have joined us with the expectation that we would be a reliable custodian of their funds.Obviously, we canāt select our owners, as we could do if our form of operation were a partnership. Anyone can buy shares of Berkshire today with the intention of soon reselling them. For sure, we get a few of that type of shareholder, just as we get index funds that own huge amounts of Berkshire simply because they are required to do so.To a truly unusual degree, however, Berkshire has as owners a very large corps of individuals and families that have elected to join us with an intent approaching ātil death do us part.ā Often, they have trusted us with a largeĀ ā some might say excessive ā portion of their savings.Berkshire, these shareholders would sometimes acknowledge, might be far from the best selection they could have made. But they would add that Berkshire would rank high among those with which they would be most comfortable. And people who are comfortable with their investments will, on average, achieve better results than those who are motivated by ever-changing headlines, chatter and promises.Long-term individual owners are both the āpartnersā Charlie and I have always sought and the ones we constantly have in mind as we make decisions at Berkshire. To them we say, āIt feels good to āworkā for you, and you have our thanks for your trust.āThe Annual MeetingClear your calendar! Berkshire will have its annual gathering of capitalists in Omaha on Friday, April 29th through Sunday, May 1st. The details regarding the weekend are laid out on pages A-1 and A-2. Omaha eagerly awaits you, as do I.I will end this letter with a sales pitch. āCousinā Jimmy Buffett has designed a pontoon āpartyā boat that is now being manufactured by Forest River, a Berkshire subsidiary. The boat will be introduced on April 29 at our Berkshire Bazaar of Bargains. And, for two days only, shareholders will be able to purchase Jimmyās masterpiece at a 10% discount. Your bargain-hunting chairman will be buying a boat for his familyās use. Join me.February 26, 2022Warren E. 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The S&P 500 was off just 0.15%, and the Nasdaq Composite slipped by 0.45%. The U.S. stock market was closed Monday due to the Presidentās Day holiday.</p><p>Oil prices rose, with West Texas Intermediate futures jumping 4.5% to $95.19 per barrel. Energy stocks jumped in premarket trading with Exxon Mobil rising 1.8% and ConocoPhillips adding 2.8%.</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he would recognize the independence of two breakaway regions in Ukraine,Ā potentially undercutting peace talks with President Joe Biden. That announcement was followed by news thatĀ Biden was set to order sanctions on separatist regions of Ukraine, with the European Union vowing to take additional measures.</p><p>Putin later ordered forces into the two breakaway regions.</p><p>U.K. Health Minister Sajid Javid said Tuesday that āthe invasion of Ukraine has begun.ā U.S. President Joe Biden has not yet used the word āinvasionā to describe the current activity. The nation has also startedĀ targeted economic sanctionsĀ against five Russian banks and three wealthy individuals.</p><p>The news came after the White House said Sunday thatĀ Biden has accepted āin principleāto meet with Putin in yet another effort to deescalate the Russia-Ukraine situation via diplomacy. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the summit between the two leaders would occur after a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.</p><p>The Russia-Ukraine conflict has put pressure on market sentiment recently, with the major averages posting back-to-back weekly losses. The Dow fell 1.9% last week, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slid 1.6% and 1.8%, respectively.</p><p>āWhile Mondayās episode will have important implications for Russiaās political relations with foreign partners, a significant market event is likely avoided for the time being, but the trajectory in the coming weeks will be important to monitor from a rising market risk perspective,ā said Ed Mills of Raymond James.</p><p>In early earnings action,Home Depotreported quarterlyprofit of $3.21 a share, three cents better than estimates, and said it sees earnings and revenue growth this year. Shares rose 1.4% in premarket trading.</p><p>Macyāspopped more than 7% in premarket trading after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. Macyās also authorized a new $2 billion share buyback program and announced a 5% dividend increase</p><p>In deal news,Houghton Mifflin Harcourtshares surged 14.4% after the company said it would be taken private by Veritas Capital in a deal worth $21 a share, representing a nearly 16% premium from Fridayās close. The deal is expected to be completed in the second quarter.</p><p>Traders are also keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve, as the U.S. central bank is expected to raise rates multiple times starting next month. Traders are betting that there is a 100% chance of a Fed rate hike after the March 15-16 meeting, with expectations tilting toward a 0.25 percentage point move,according to the CME Groupās FedWatch tool.</p><p>Expectations of tighter monetary policy have put pressure on stocks, particularly those in rate-sensitive sectors like tech, and have sent Treasury yield sharply higher to start 2022. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield ended last week around 1.93% after briefly breaking above 2%. The 10-year began 2022 trading at around 1.51%.</p><p>āAll eyes are on the Fed,ā Strategas investment strategist Ryan Grabinski wrote in a note released Friday evening. āAs of today, the market is expecting the Fed to raise interest rates at nearly every meeting this year. Despite that, we left Monetary Policy as Favorable for now because the Fed is continuing to purchase Treasuries (an accommodative policy action).ā</p><p>Meanwhile, Wall Street is preparing for the tail-end of the corporate earnings season, with Home Depot and eBay among the companies set to report this week. It has been a solid earnings season thus far: Of the more than 400 S&P 500 companies that have posted fourth-quarter earnings, 77.7% have beaten analyst expectations, according to FactSet.</p><p></p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>U.S. Stocks Fall as Wall Street Assesses Rising Tensions between Russia and Ukraine</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nU.S. Stocks Fall as Wall Street Assesses Rising Tensions between Russia and Ukraine\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2022-02-22 22:32</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>The major averages dipped on Tuesday as traders continue to monitor brewing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 90 points or 0.25%. The S&P 500 was off just 0.15%, and the Nasdaq Composite slipped by 0.45%. The U.S. stock market was closed Monday due to the Presidentās Day holiday.</p><p>Oil prices rose, with West Texas Intermediate futures jumping 4.5% to $95.19 per barrel. Energy stocks jumped in premarket trading with Exxon Mobil rising 1.8% and ConocoPhillips adding 2.8%.</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he would recognize the independence of two breakaway regions in Ukraine,Ā potentially undercutting peace talks with President Joe Biden. That announcement was followed by news thatĀ Biden was set to order sanctions on separatist regions of Ukraine, with the European Union vowing to take additional measures.</p><p>Putin later ordered forces into the two breakaway regions.</p><p>U.K. Health Minister Sajid Javid said Tuesday that āthe invasion of Ukraine has begun.ā U.S. President Joe Biden has not yet used the word āinvasionā to describe the current activity. The nation has also startedĀ targeted economic sanctionsĀ against five Russian banks and three wealthy individuals.</p><p>The news came after the White House said Sunday thatĀ Biden has accepted āin principleāto meet with Putin in yet another effort to deescalate the Russia-Ukraine situation via diplomacy. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the summit between the two leaders would occur after a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.</p><p>The Russia-Ukraine conflict has put pressure on market sentiment recently, with the major averages posting back-to-back weekly losses. The Dow fell 1.9% last week, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slid 1.6% and 1.8%, respectively.</p><p>āWhile Mondayās episode will have important implications for Russiaās political relations with foreign partners, a significant market event is likely avoided for the time being, but the trajectory in the coming weeks will be important to monitor from a rising market risk perspective,ā said Ed Mills of Raymond James.</p><p>In early earnings action,Home Depotreported quarterlyprofit of $3.21 a share, three cents better than estimates, and said it sees earnings and revenue growth this year. Shares rose 1.4% in premarket trading.</p><p>Macyāspopped more than 7% in premarket trading after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. Macyās also authorized a new $2 billion share buyback program and announced a 5% dividend increase</p><p>In deal news,Houghton Mifflin Harcourtshares surged 14.4% after the company said it would be taken private by Veritas Capital in a deal worth $21 a share, representing a nearly 16% premium from Fridayās close. The deal is expected to be completed in the second quarter.</p><p>Traders are also keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve, as the U.S. central bank is expected to raise rates multiple times starting next month. Traders are betting that there is a 100% chance of a Fed rate hike after the March 15-16 meeting, with expectations tilting toward a 0.25 percentage point move,according to the CME Groupās FedWatch tool.</p><p>Expectations of tighter monetary policy have put pressure on stocks, particularly those in rate-sensitive sectors like tech, and have sent Treasury yield sharply higher to start 2022. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield ended last week around 1.93% after briefly breaking above 2%. The 10-year began 2022 trading at around 1.51%.</p><p>āAll eyes are on the Fed,ā Strategas investment strategist Ryan Grabinski wrote in a note released Friday evening. āAs of today, the market is expecting the Fed to raise interest rates at nearly every meeting this year. Despite that, we left Monetary Policy as Favorable for now because the Fed is continuing to purchase Treasuries (an accommodative policy action).ā</p><p>Meanwhile, Wall Street is preparing for the tail-end of the corporate earnings season, with Home Depot and eBay among the companies set to report this week. It has been a solid earnings season thus far: Of the more than 400 S&P 500 companies that have posted fourth-quarter earnings, 77.7% have beaten analyst expectations, according to FactSet.</p><p></p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".SPX":"S&P 500 Index",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".DJI":"éē¼ęÆ"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1101814218","content_text":"The major averages dipped on Tuesday as traders continue to monitor brewing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 90 points or 0.25%. The S&P 500 was off just 0.15%, and the Nasdaq Composite slipped by 0.45%. The U.S. stock market was closed Monday due to the Presidentās Day holiday.Oil prices rose, with West Texas Intermediate futures jumping 4.5% to $95.19 per barrel. Energy stocks jumped in premarket trading with Exxon Mobil rising 1.8% and ConocoPhillips adding 2.8%.Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he would recognize the independence of two breakaway regions in Ukraine,Ā potentially undercutting peace talks with President Joe Biden. That announcement was followed by news thatĀ Biden was set to order sanctions on separatist regions of Ukraine, with the European Union vowing to take additional measures.Putin later ordered forces into the two breakaway regions.U.K. Health Minister Sajid Javid said Tuesday that āthe invasion of Ukraine has begun.ā U.S. President Joe Biden has not yet used the word āinvasionā to describe the current activity. The nation has also startedĀ targeted economic sanctionsĀ against five Russian banks and three wealthy individuals.The news came after the White House said Sunday thatĀ Biden has accepted āin principleāto meet with Putin in yet another effort to deescalate the Russia-Ukraine situation via diplomacy. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the summit between the two leaders would occur after a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.The Russia-Ukraine conflict has put pressure on market sentiment recently, with the major averages posting back-to-back weekly losses. The Dow fell 1.9% last week, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slid 1.6% and 1.8%, respectively.āWhile Mondayās episode will have important implications for Russiaās political relations with foreign partners, a significant market event is likely avoided for the time being, but the trajectory in the coming weeks will be important to monitor from a rising market risk perspective,ā said Ed Mills of Raymond James.In early earnings action,Home Depotreported quarterlyprofit of $3.21 a share, three cents better than estimates, and said it sees earnings and revenue growth this year. Shares rose 1.4% in premarket trading.Macyāspopped more than 7% in premarket trading after beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. Macyās also authorized a new $2 billion share buyback program and announced a 5% dividend increaseIn deal news,Houghton Mifflin Harcourtshares surged 14.4% after the company said it would be taken private by Veritas Capital in a deal worth $21 a share, representing a nearly 16% premium from Fridayās close. The deal is expected to be completed in the second quarter.Traders are also keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve, as the U.S. central bank is expected to raise rates multiple times starting next month. Traders are betting that there is a 100% chance of a Fed rate hike after the March 15-16 meeting, with expectations tilting toward a 0.25 percentage point move,according to the CME Groupās FedWatch tool.Expectations of tighter monetary policy have put pressure on stocks, particularly those in rate-sensitive sectors like tech, and have sent Treasury yield sharply higher to start 2022. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield ended last week around 1.93% after briefly breaking above 2%. The 10-year began 2022 trading at around 1.51%.āAll eyes are on the Fed,ā Strategas investment strategist Ryan Grabinski wrote in a note released Friday evening. āAs of today, the market is expecting the Fed to raise interest rates at nearly every meeting this year. Despite that, we left Monetary Policy as Favorable for now because the Fed is continuing to purchase Treasuries (an accommodative policy action).āMeanwhile, Wall Street is preparing for the tail-end of the corporate earnings season, with Home Depot and eBay among the companies set to report this week. It has been a solid earnings season thus far: Of the more than 400 S&P 500 companies that have posted fourth-quarter earnings, 77.7% have beaten analyst expectations, according to FactSet.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":419,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9032875401,"gmtCreate":1647344227782,"gmtModify":1676534218511,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"š ","listText":"š ","text":"š","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9032875401","repostId":"1146709071","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":356,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9039037321,"gmtCreate":1645840261020,"gmtModify":1676534069331,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Wonderful...finally stocks bounded !!!","listText":"Wonderful...finally stocks bounded !!!","text":"Wonderful...finally stocks bounded !!!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9039037321","repostId":"2214433184","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2214433184","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1645830512,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2214433184?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-26 07:08","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Dow Posts Biggest Gain since Nov 2020 as Wall St Rebounds Second Day","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2214433184","media":"Reuters","summary":"* All sectors higher, led by gains in materials* Oil prices ease* Indexes: Dow up 2.5%, S&P 500 up 2.2%, Nasdaq up 1.6% (Updates close with volume, additional quotes, details)The Dow on Friday registe","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>* All sectors higher, led by gains in materials</p><p>* Oil prices ease</p><p>* Indexes: Dow up 2.5%, S&P 500 up 2.2%, Nasdaq up 1.6% (Updates close with volume, additional quotes, details)</p><p>The Dow on Friday registered its biggest daily percentage gain since November 2020 with the market rebounding for a second day from the sharp selloff leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.</p><p>Oil prices fell below $100 a barrel, easing some concerns about higher energy costs, and all 11 of the major S&P 500 sectors ended up on the day. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also posted gains for the week.</p><p>Russian missiles pounded Kyiv and families cowered in shelters on Friday, a day after Russia unleashed a three-pronged invasion of Ukraine in the biggest attack on a European state since World War <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TWOA.U\">Two</a>.</p><p>Investors also were assessing news that Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a call that Russia was willing to hold high-level talks with Ukraine, according to China's foreign ministry.</p><p>Some strategists say stock-selling may have been overdone. The S&P 500 confirmed earlier this week it was in a correction when it ended down more than 10% from its Jan. 3 record closing high.</p><p>"It sure feels a lot more like we've really exhausted sentiment in this correction," said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group in Minneapolis, noting that economic fundamentals and corporate health remain favorable.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 834.92 points, or 2.51%, to 34,058.75, the S&P 500 gained 95.95 points, or 2.24%, to 4,384.65 and the Nasdaq Composite added 221.04 points, or 1.64%, to 13,694.62.</p><p>For the week, the Dow was down 0.1%, the S&P 500 was up 0.8% and the Nasdaq was up 1.1%.</p><p>The West on Thursday unveiled new sanctions on Russia, while NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday the alliance was deploying parts of its combat-ready response force and would continue to send weapons to Ukraine.</p><p>"In general, the sanctions are going to have some bite," but investors seem to be relieved that Washington dismissed the idea of going to war with Russia, said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco.</p><p>She said volatility should remain high in the coming days as events in Ukraine dictate market moves, but that focus eventually will turn back to the Federal Reserve and the outlook for interest rates.</p><p>Some strategists noted that the sanctions announced Thursday targeted Russia's banks but left its energy sector largely untouched.</p><p>Health care gave the S&P 500 its biggest boost.</p><p>Shares of Johnson & Johnson climbed 5% after a U.S. judge ruled that the drugmaker's subsidiary can remain in bankruptcy, preventing plaintiffs from pursuing 38,000 lawsuits against the company alleging its baby powder and other talc products cause cancer.</p><p>The Cboe Volatility index, Wall Street's fear gauge, ended down at 27.59.</p><p>Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 4.29-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.63-to-1 ratio favored advancers.</p><p>The S&P 500 posted 15 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 39 new highs and 66 new lows.</p><p>Volume on U.S. exchanges was 12.47 billion shares, compared with the 12.1 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.</p></body></html>","source":"yahoofinance","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Dow Posts Biggest Gain since Nov 2020 as Wall St Rebounds Second Day</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also posted gains for the week.Russian missiles pounded Kyiv and families cowered in shelters on Friday, a day after Russia unleashed a three-pronged invasion of Ukraine in the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two.Investors also were assessing news that Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a call that Russia was willing to hold high-level talks with Ukraine, according to China's foreign ministry.Some strategists say stock-selling may have been overdone. The S&P 500 confirmed earlier this week it was in a correction when it ended down more than 10% from its Jan. 3 record closing high.\"It sure feels a lot more like we've really exhausted sentiment in this correction,\" said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group in Minneapolis, noting that economic fundamentals and corporate health remain favorable.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 834.92 points, or 2.51%, to 34,058.75, the S&P 500 gained 95.95 points, or 2.24%, to 4,384.65 and the Nasdaq Composite added 221.04 points, or 1.64%, to 13,694.62.For the week, the Dow was down 0.1%, the S&P 500 was up 0.8% and the Nasdaq was up 1.1%.The West on Thursday unveiled new sanctions on Russia, while NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday the alliance was deploying parts of its combat-ready response force and would continue to send weapons to Ukraine.\"In general, the sanctions are going to have some bite,\" but investors seem to be relieved that Washington dismissed the idea of going to war with Russia, said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco.She said volatility should remain high in the coming days as events in Ukraine dictate market moves, but that focus eventually will turn back to the Federal Reserve and the outlook for interest rates.Some strategists noted that the sanctions announced Thursday targeted Russia's banks but left its energy sector largely untouched.Health care gave the S&P 500 its biggest boost.Shares of Johnson & Johnson climbed 5% after a U.S. judge ruled that the drugmaker's subsidiary can remain in bankruptcy, preventing plaintiffs from pursuing 38,000 lawsuits against the company alleging its baby powder and other talc products cause cancer.The Cboe Volatility index, Wall Street's fear gauge, ended down at 27.59.Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 4.29-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.63-to-1 ratio favored advancers.The S&P 500 posted 15 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 39 new highs and 66 new lows.Volume on U.S. exchanges was 12.47 billion shares, compared with the 12.1 billion average for the full session over the last 20 trading days.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":583,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9095800029,"gmtCreate":1644875699297,"gmtModify":1676533969375,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"No war pls. 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","text":"No war pls.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9095800029","repostId":"1119798741","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1119798741","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1644849025,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1119798741?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-02-14 22:30","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Stocks Slip As Investors Weigh Russia-Ukraine Tensions, Fedās Next Move","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1119798741","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Stocks fell Monday morning as investors eyed the escalating threat of Russian invasion in Ukraine al","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Stocks fell Monday morning as investors eyed the escalating threat of Russian invasion in Ukraine alongside ongoing concerns over inflation and an aggressive move toward policy tightening by the Federal Reserve.</p><p>The S&P 500 edged lower, extend losses after last week's roller-coaster sessions on Thursday and Friday. Treasury yields rose and the 10-year yield hovered back near 2%.</p><p>Oil prices steadied after a recent run-up as U.S. officials signaled Russia could be nearing the launch of an invasion of Ukraine as soon as this week. National Security adviser Jake SullivanĀ told CNN on SundayĀ that "a major military action could begin by Russia in Ukraine any day now," though the U.S. was still hoping for a diplomatic resolution. The remarks came a day after President Joe Biden held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin warning that the U.S. and its allies would"impose swift and severe costs"on Russia in the event of a military attack in Ukraine.</p><p>West Texas intermediate crude oil futures (CL=F) hovered around $92 to hold near a seven-year high. U.S. crude prices have already jumped more than 20% for the year-to-date. Brent crude (BZ=F), the international standard, drifted near $94 per barrel. With oil prices elevated, the S&P 500 energy sector has far outperformed the other major S&P 500 sectors for the year-to-date, climbing more than 26% versus the broader market's 7% drop.</p><p>Further upside in energy prices in response to the Russia and Ukraine conflict would depend on the timing of any attack and the contours of any U.S. response toward Russia, one of the world's key oil exporters, some analysts noted.</p><p>"It all comes down to how much of their supply is actually impacted by an invasion, and that's not entirely clear. There are estimates that are saying crude could go to $120 a barrel if we get an invasion," Rebecca Babin, CIBC Private Wealth U.S. senior energy trader,told Yahoo Finance Live about Brent crude prices. "I say we top out at probably just around $100 because I do think that there will not be as strict of sanctions as the market fears because ultimately, that hurts the US and our allies almost as much as it hurts Russia."</p><p>For equity markets, however, the geopolitical conflict may compound volatility already stirred up by investors jittery over the potential for the Fed to tighten monetary policy aggressively in the near-term. With inflation running at a 40-year high and the labor market on solid ground, investors are largely expecting the Fed to raise benchmark interest rates between five and seven times this year.</p><p>Conflict in Ukraine "could actually build the worst-case scenario for the Fed, in the sense that you could see energy prices move higher, [and] if you start to see gasoline prices go north of $4 per gallon, I think that could crimp consumer spending," Larry Adam, Raymond James chief investment officer,told Yahoo Finance Live."And then obviously, if energy prices go higher, that could lead to further inflationary pressures. And that could be a double-edged sword that the Fed could be challenged by."</p><p>Later this week, investors are set to receive another batch of earnings results from companies including Airbnb (ABNB), DoorDash (DASH), Walmart (WMT) and Roku (ROKU). Economic data reports will include the Commerce Department's January retail sales report, which is likely to show sales rebounded in January after dipping in December.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Stocks Slip As Investors Weigh Russia-Ukraine Tensions, Fedās Next Move</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nStocks Slip As Investors Weigh Russia-Ukraine Tensions, Fedās Next Move\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2022-02-14 22:30</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>Stocks fell Monday morning as investors eyed the escalating threat of Russian invasion in Ukraine alongside ongoing concerns over inflation and an aggressive move toward policy tightening by the Federal Reserve.</p><p>The S&P 500 edged lower, extend losses after last week's roller-coaster sessions on Thursday and Friday. Treasury yields rose and the 10-year yield hovered back near 2%.</p><p>Oil prices steadied after a recent run-up as U.S. officials signaled Russia could be nearing the launch of an invasion of Ukraine as soon as this week. National Security adviser Jake SullivanĀ told CNN on SundayĀ that "a major military action could begin by Russia in Ukraine any day now," though the U.S. was still hoping for a diplomatic resolution. The remarks came a day after President Joe Biden held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin warning that the U.S. and its allies would"impose swift and severe costs"on Russia in the event of a military attack in Ukraine.</p><p>West Texas intermediate crude oil futures (CL=F) hovered around $92 to hold near a seven-year high. U.S. crude prices have already jumped more than 20% for the year-to-date. Brent crude (BZ=F), the international standard, drifted near $94 per barrel. With oil prices elevated, the S&P 500 energy sector has far outperformed the other major S&P 500 sectors for the year-to-date, climbing more than 26% versus the broader market's 7% drop.</p><p>Further upside in energy prices in response to the Russia and Ukraine conflict would depend on the timing of any attack and the contours of any U.S. response toward Russia, one of the world's key oil exporters, some analysts noted.</p><p>"It all comes down to how much of their supply is actually impacted by an invasion, and that's not entirely clear. There are estimates that are saying crude could go to $120 a barrel if we get an invasion," Rebecca Babin, CIBC Private Wealth U.S. senior energy trader,told Yahoo Finance Live about Brent crude prices. "I say we top out at probably just around $100 because I do think that there will not be as strict of sanctions as the market fears because ultimately, that hurts the US and our allies almost as much as it hurts Russia."</p><p>For equity markets, however, the geopolitical conflict may compound volatility already stirred up by investors jittery over the potential for the Fed to tighten monetary policy aggressively in the near-term. With inflation running at a 40-year high and the labor market on solid ground, investors are largely expecting the Fed to raise benchmark interest rates between five and seven times this year.</p><p>Conflict in Ukraine "could actually build the worst-case scenario for the Fed, in the sense that you could see energy prices move higher, [and] if you start to see gasoline prices go north of $4 per gallon, I think that could crimp consumer spending," Larry Adam, Raymond James chief investment officer,told Yahoo Finance Live."And then obviously, if energy prices go higher, that could lead to further inflationary pressures. And that could be a double-edged sword that the Fed could be challenged by."</p><p>Later this week, investors are set to receive another batch of earnings results from companies including Airbnb (ABNB), DoorDash (DASH), Walmart (WMT) and Roku (ROKU). Economic data reports will include the Commerce Department's January retail sales report, which is likely to show sales rebounded in January after dipping in December.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{".DJI":"éē¼ęÆ",".IXIC":"NASDAQ Composite",".SPX":"S&P 500 Index"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1119798741","content_text":"Stocks fell Monday morning as investors eyed the escalating threat of Russian invasion in Ukraine alongside ongoing concerns over inflation and an aggressive move toward policy tightening by the Federal Reserve.The S&P 500 edged lower, extend losses after last week's roller-coaster sessions on Thursday and Friday. Treasury yields rose and the 10-year yield hovered back near 2%.Oil prices steadied after a recent run-up as U.S. officials signaled Russia could be nearing the launch of an invasion of Ukraine as soon as this week. National Security adviser Jake SullivanĀ told CNN on SundayĀ that \"a major military action could begin by Russia in Ukraine any day now,\" though the U.S. was still hoping for a diplomatic resolution. The remarks came a day after President Joe Biden held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin warning that the U.S. and its allies would\"impose swift and severe costs\"on Russia in the event of a military attack in Ukraine.West Texas intermediate crude oil futures (CL=F) hovered around $92 to hold near a seven-year high. U.S. crude prices have already jumped more than 20% for the year-to-date. Brent crude (BZ=F), the international standard, drifted near $94 per barrel. With oil prices elevated, the S&P 500 energy sector has far outperformed the other major S&P 500 sectors for the year-to-date, climbing more than 26% versus the broader market's 7% drop.Further upside in energy prices in response to the Russia and Ukraine conflict would depend on the timing of any attack and the contours of any U.S. response toward Russia, one of the world's key oil exporters, some analysts noted.\"It all comes down to how much of their supply is actually impacted by an invasion, and that's not entirely clear. There are estimates that are saying crude could go to $120 a barrel if we get an invasion,\" Rebecca Babin, CIBC Private Wealth U.S. senior energy trader,told Yahoo Finance Live about Brent crude prices. \"I say we top out at probably just around $100 because I do think that there will not be as strict of sanctions as the market fears because ultimately, that hurts the US and our allies almost as much as it hurts Russia.\"For equity markets, however, the geopolitical conflict may compound volatility already stirred up by investors jittery over the potential for the Fed to tighten monetary policy aggressively in the near-term. With inflation running at a 40-year high and the labor market on solid ground, investors are largely expecting the Fed to raise benchmark interest rates between five and seven times this year.Conflict in Ukraine \"could actually build the worst-case scenario for the Fed, in the sense that you could see energy prices move higher, [and] if you start to see gasoline prices go north of $4 per gallon, I think that could crimp consumer spending,\" Larry Adam, Raymond James chief investment officer,told Yahoo Finance Live.\"And then obviously, if energy prices go higher, that could lead to further inflationary pressures. And that could be a double-edged sword that the Fed could be challenged by.\"Later this week, investors are set to receive another batch of earnings results from companies including Airbnb (ABNB), DoorDash (DASH), Walmart (WMT) and Roku (ROKU). Economic data reports will include the Commerce Department's January retail sales report, which is likely to show sales rebounded in January after dipping in December.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":103,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9095321303,"gmtCreate":1644831315732,"gmtModify":1676533965852,"author":{"id":"4098499611463450","authorId":"4098499611463450","name":"Tulip123","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/2f21bb6b340545db541505965a0e0782","crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"4098499611463450","authorIdStr":"4098499611463450"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Oh dear!!!","listText":"Oh dear!!!","text":"Oh 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premarketĀ trading.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ac63d0b10b92f7b7991e3f94fc5d7c97\" tg-width=\"712\" tg-height=\"605\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/>U.S. electric vehicle maker TeslaĀ Inc sold 59,845 China-made vehicles in January, down 15.5% month-on-month,Ā China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said on Monday.</p><p>CPCA said all passenger car sales in January in China totalled 2.11 million, down 4.5% from a year earlier.</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Tesla Shares Fell 2.56% in Premarket Trading</title>\n<style 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17:00</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>TeslaĀ sharesĀ fellĀ 2.56%Ā inĀ premarketĀ trading.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ac63d0b10b92f7b7991e3f94fc5d7c97\" tg-width=\"712\" tg-height=\"605\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/>U.S. electric vehicle maker TeslaĀ Inc sold 59,845 China-made vehicles in January, down 15.5% month-on-month,Ā China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said on Monday.</p><p>CPCA said all passenger car sales in January in China totalled 2.11 million, down 4.5% from a year earlier.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"ē¹ęÆę"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1128182297","content_text":"TeslaĀ sharesĀ fellĀ 2.56%Ā inĀ premarketĀ trading.U.S. electric vehicle maker TeslaĀ Inc sold 59,845 China-made vehicles in January, down 15.5% month-on-month,Ā 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The decision āfeels at odds with Teslaās goal of driving EV adoption as quickly as possible,ā he wrote.</p><p>The analyst is referring to CEO Elon Muskās eyebrow-raising comments during the fourth-quarter earnings call. There, he shared that the automaker would not be prioritizing new models in 2022. Instead, Tesla would focus on scaling production of its current lineup. This decision stems, at least partially, from ongoing global supply chain issues.</p><p>While Sacconaghi sees the decision to not prioritize a $25,000 car before 2025 as a problem, Muskās decision exemplifies what investors should like about Tesla. The EV maker made it through 2021 despite supply chain challenges, still posting record deliveries for Q4. Focusing on what it knows ā and on what sells ā in 2022 is a smart decision.</p><p>Beyond that, recent dataĀ reveal that Tesla is the most-searched car brand in the world. When consumers shop for electric vehicles, Tesla is still the first name they think of. That holds true despite its high prices.</p><p>Indeed, it will serve Tesla well to continue with its current business model and not cheapen its brand. Driving a Tesla is still considered a status symbol by many, giving it a competitive edge.</p><p>What Comes Next</p><p>The bottom line is that Tesla does not need to cheapen its name by producing more affordable cars, at least right now. A revolution in electric vehicles is underway, and the road ahead for Tesla looks smooth.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Tesla Stock Can Survive and Thrive Even Without Cheap Cars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nTesla Stock Can Survive and Thrive Even Without Cheap Cars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-02-17 09:44 GMT+8 <a href=https://investorplace.com/2022/02/tsla-stock-can-survive-and-thrive-even-without-cheap-cars/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Tesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) continues to come out on top, even when Wall Street wants to knock it down. The electric vehicle leader has once again demonstrated its prowess this week in the face of bearish ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2022/02/tsla-stock-can-survive-and-thrive-even-without-cheap-cars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"TSLA":"ē¹ęÆę"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2022/02/tsla-stock-can-survive-and-thrive-even-without-cheap-cars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1170326229","content_text":"Tesla(NASDAQ:TSLA) continues to come out on top, even when Wall Street wants to knock it down. The electric vehicle leader has once again demonstrated its prowess this week in the face of bearish analyst reports. So what do you need to know about TSLA stock right now?On Monday, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi reiterated his āsellā recommendation and his $300 price target. The analyst shared concerns around a slowdown in the full-self driving (FSD) software and delays in production of a $25,000 car.However, investors learned again today that one analyst isnāt strong enough to drive down a company like Tesla. You should brush off Sacconaghiās concerns and embrace TSLA stock as a winner.What Is Happening With TSLA StockIn his note, Sacconaghiexpressed concernĀ that Tesla wouldnāt be developing a more affordable electric vehicle in the near future. The decision āfeels at odds with Teslaās goal of driving EV adoption as quickly as possible,ā he wrote.The analyst is referring to CEO Elon Muskās eyebrow-raising comments during the fourth-quarter earnings call. There, he shared that the automaker would not be prioritizing new models in 2022. Instead, Tesla would focus on scaling production of its current lineup. This decision stems, at least partially, from ongoing global supply chain issues.While Sacconaghi sees the decision to not prioritize a $25,000 car before 2025 as a problem, Muskās decision exemplifies what investors should like about Tesla. The EV maker made it through 2021 despite supply chain challenges, still posting record deliveries for Q4. Focusing on what it knows ā and on what sells ā in 2022 is a smart decision.Beyond that, recent dataĀ reveal that Tesla is the most-searched car brand in the world. When consumers shop for electric vehicles, Tesla is still the first name they think of. That holds true despite its high prices.Indeed, it will serve Tesla well to continue with its current business model and not cheapen its brand. Driving a Tesla is still considered a status symbol by many, giving it a competitive edge.What Comes NextThe bottom line is that Tesla does not need to cheapen its name by producing more affordable cars, at least right now. 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The stock market rally suffered significant damage last week, with the major indexes below key support and starting to move toward their Jan. 24 lows.</p><p>Fears that Russia will invade Ukraine are weighing heavily on the market rally, which is already dealing with inflation and other big headwinds. The uncertainty over what Russian President Vladimir Putin will do adds significantly to the volatility.</p><p>Belarus said Sunday that its big war games with Russia will be extended beyond today, citing unrest in parts of Eastern Ukraine. Russia had said its troops would return home at the conclusion of the massive drills on Feb. 20. But Russian forces have continued to build up in recent days.</p><p>Various reports, citing U.S. officials, say Russia has given military commanders orders to go ahead with an invasion of Ukraine. Commanders on the ground making specific plans for maneuvers.</p><p>Publicly, Russia says it wants a diplomatic solution. Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday agreed to trilateral talks that would also include German and Ukrainian leadership, according to a French statement.</p><p>President Joe Biden abruptly cancelled a Sunday trip to Delaware amid the Ukraine crisis.</p><p>Biden late Friday said that he was confident that Putin has decided to invade Ukraine within the next few days. In a later tweet, he explained why the U.S. is proclaiming Russia's intentions in advance. "We are doing everything in our power to remove any reason Russia may give to justify invading Ukraine."</p><p>Cease-fire violations between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists have surged in the past few days. Separatist leaders have ordered a full military mobilization and civilian evacuation, claiming Ukraine is close to launching its own offensive. Local, pro-Russia media has claimed explosions in rebel-held parts of eastern Ukraine. These events offer a pretext for Russia to stay mobilized and likely to launch a new Ukraine invasion.</p><p>The U.S. and Western nations are poised to impose major economic sanctions vs. Russia in the event of a Ukraine invasion. On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the West to impose sanctions now.</p><p>But, setting aside the geopolitics, the stock market rally looks ever weaker. Investors should take a defensive posture with minimal exposure.</p><h2>Dow Jones Futures Today</h2><p>Dow Jones futures sank 0.8% vs. fair value. S&P 500 futures skidded 1.1% and Nasdaq 100 futures tumbled 2%.</p><p>Crude oil futures rose nearly 2%.</p><p>While Dow futures are open Sunday evening as usual, U.S. markets will be closed Monday in observance of the Presidents Day holiday. Other stock markets will be open around the world, however.</p><p>Remember that overnight action in Dow futures and elsewhere doesn't necessarily translate into actual trading in the next regular stock market session.</p><h2>Five Stocks That Don't Suck</h2><p>Apple stock, O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Commercial Metals (CMC), Union Pacific (UNP) and Nutrien (NTR) are five stocks holding up near buy points with relative strength lines at or near highs.</p><p>Apple (AAPL) dwarfs all of these names, but it's the only one trading below its 50-day moving average.</p><p>The RS line, the blue line in the charts provided, tracks a stock's performance vs. the S&P 500 index. It's an easy way to spot leading stocks in any kind of market. In a weak or choppy market, stocks with RS lines at highs could be leaders in the next rally.</p><h2>Nvidia, Tesla Just Hanging On</h2><p>Meanwhile, Nvidia stock and Tesla (TSLA) rebounded from near their 200-day moving averages on Friday. This is an area where Tesla stock and Nvidia (NVDA) found support before in late January. Can these big former winners continue to do so? It'll likely depend on the market rally's next moves. But as megacap stocks, Tesla and NVDA stock will have something to say about the overall market direction.</p><h2>Trump's Truth Social To Launch?</h2><p>Donald Trump's Truth Social site is set to debut in Apple's App Store on Monday. That's according to posts from an executive viewed by Reuters. That could mean the return of former President Trump to social media on Presidents Day. Facebook and Twitter banned Trump from their networks in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021, storming of Capitol Hill.</p><p>Truth Social is part of Trump Media & Technology Group. David Nunes, a former GOP congressman who now heads TMTC, has said recently that Truth Social will launch at the end of March.</p><p>Trump Media is going public via a SPAC merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC). DWAC stock has done well in 2022 and appears to be consolidating once again.</p><p>Analysts say Truth Social will be sure to attract a lot of users to start, but profitability could be difficult.</p><p>Home Depot (HD) headlines earnings before Tuesday's open, while Mosaic (MOS) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) are among those due after the close.</p><p>Tesla stock and Nvidia are on IBD Leaderboard. ORLY stock is on the IBD 50. Commercial Metals was Friday's IBD Stock Of The Day. UNP stock was Thursday's.</p><p>The video embedded in this article discussed the week's market action in detail, while also analyzing CMC stock, Union Pacific and new SwingTrader stock Dollar Tree (DLTR).</p><h2>Coronavirus News</h2><p>Coronavirus cases worldwide reached 424.78 million. Covid-19 deaths topped 5.9 million.</p><p>Coronavirus cases in the U.S. have hit 80.08 million, with deaths above 959,000.</p><p>New coronavirus cases have tumbled in the U.S. and worldwide, with hospitalizations and deaths also down. Covid restrictions are being scaled back or removed in many states and countries around the world. One exception is Hong Kong, which is seeing its first real spike of the pandemic.</p><h2>Stock Market Rally</h2><p>The stock market rally tried to bounce last week but faded badly late in the week.</p><p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.9% in last week's stock market trading. The S&P 500 index gave up 1.6%. The Nasdaq composite sank 1.8%. The small-cap Russell 2000 retreated nearly 1%</p><p>The 10-year Treasury yield fell 2 basis points to 1.93%, but that's after hitting a 30-month high of 2.065% intraday Wednesday. Russia war fears sent investors into safe havens, while Fed minutes from the January policy meeting didn't offer any new hawkish surprises.</p><p>Crude oil prices fell more than 2% to $91.07 a barrel, but held above the $90 mark.</p><h2>ETFs</h2><p>Among the best ETFs, the Innovator IBD 50 ETF (FFTY) fell 1% last week, while the Innovator IBD Breakout Opportunities ETF (BOUT) slumped 3%. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) tumbled 5.4%. The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) closed flat, but fell sharply on Thursday-Friday. Nvidia stock is a major SMH component.</p><p>SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (XME) rose 2.1% last week. The Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (PAVE) gained 1.3%. U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS) ascended 1.8%. SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) dipped 0.5%. The Energy Select SPDR ETF (XLE) gave up 3.35% and the Financial Select SPDR ETF (XLF) sank 2.3%. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) pulled back 2.1%.</p><p>Reflecting more-speculative story stocks, ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) plunged 9.9% last week, hitting a fresh 20-month low on Friday. ARK Genomics ETF (ARKG) tumbled 6.6%. Tesla stock remains the No. 1 holding across ARK Invest's ETFs.</p><h2>Apple Stock</h2><p>Apple stock dipped 0.8% to 167.30 last week. During the late January market sell-off, the iPhone giant never came close to its 200-day line. AAPL stock now has a cup-with-handle base with a 176.75 buy point, according to MarketSmith analysis.</p><h2>Commercial Metals Stock</h2><p>Commercial Metals stock rose 3.1% to 36.75 last week. It's slightly above its 50-day moving average, working on a 38.82 buy point. CMC stock could be starting to form a handle, with a potential lower entry of 37.59. Investors already could use that as an early entry.</p><h2>Union Pacific Stock</h2><p>Union Pacific jumped 5.2% to 251.19 last week. UNP stock is trading just below a 256.11 buy point in a very shallow flat base. Investors arguably could buy it now or just shy of 255.</p><h2>O'Reilly Stock</h2><p>ORLY stock edged up 1.3 to 676.96 last week, its fourth straight modest weekly gain. O'Reilly stock has reclaimed the 50-day line, offering an early entry in a shallow cup base. The official buy point is 710.96.</p><p>Auto parts retailers often do well in tough markets. The business can thrive in difficult economic times. Right now, with new-car prices scarce and used-car prices soaring, many Americans may keep their old cars longer. That's good news for O'Reilly and its rivals.</p><h2>Nutrien Stock</h2><p>NTR stock had a wild week, tumbling to undercut the 50-day line briefly before quickly rebounding to record high before pulling back slightly. But, ultimately, Nutrien stock dipped 0.7% to 75.78. That's just below a 77.45 buy point.</p><p>On Wednesday night, the fertilizer maker reported a 929% EPS surge with revenue up 79%. Other fertilizer stocks also are doing well, despite some big intraday and daily swings. That includes MOS stock, which reports late Tuesday.</p><h2>Tesla Stock</h2><p>Tesla stock edged down 0.35% to 856.98 last week, but closed low in its range and nearly tested its 200-day line again on Friday. TSLA stock has been hitting resistance at its falling 21-day line for the past few weeks, while the 50-day line is racing lower. Holding the 200-day line, and its Jan. 28 low of 792.01, is key for the EV giant. On the upside, Tesla stock has a 1,208.10 buy point, and doesn't really have an early entry.</p><p>Meanwhile, BYD (BYDDF) on Saturday launched the Yuan Plus in China, with pre-sales starting in Australia, a new market for the Chinese EV and battery giant. BYD recently signaled it'll sell 1.5 million EV and hybrids in 2022.</p><h2>Nvidia Stock</h2><p>Nvidia stock fell 1.3% to 236.42 for the week, but after hitting resistance at its 10-week line, the chip giant tested its 40-week again and nearly touched its 200-day line. As with Tesla, NVDA stock pared Friday's losses slightly.</p><p>Nvidia earnings and guidance late Wednesday topped views, but investors focused on forecasts for unchanged profit margins.</p><p>If Nvidia stock can rally above its 50-day line and its Feb. 10 high of 269.25, also breaking a steep downtrend, that would offer a very aggressive entry. NVDA stock would still have a long way to reach its Nov. 22 peak of 346.47.</p><h2>Market Rally Analysis</h2><p>The stock market rally, already under pressure, sold off again late last week. The Dow Jones, S&P 500 index and Nasdaq composite broke below their recent ranges and are heading toward their Jan. 24 lows. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite are now below their Jan. 31 follow-through day lows, with the odds high that they break to new lows. Undercutting the Jan. 24 lows would mark the end of the market rally.</p><p>In late 2018, the stock market correction or bear market had two failed follow-through days, finally bottoming on Christmas Eve.</p><p>The ailing market rally has retreated sharply over the last several days, so arguably it's due for a bounce. But it doesn't have to happen right away, and one or two good days wouldn't be that meaningful.</p><p>New losers are still far outstripping new winners, while market breadth also weakened once again after briefly improving in early February.</p><p>In the very short run, the stock market will continue to focus on fears that Russia invades Ukraine. The long Presidents Day weekend could have major developments related to Russia and Ukraine, raising the potential for a big move up or down on Tuesday. But all of those moves could quickly reverse with the next headline.</p><p>Beyond the Russia-Ukraine crisis, inflation and Fed rate hikes hang over the market. JPMorgan economists now expect quarter-point rate hikes at nine consecutive Fed meetings, with many other Wall Street analysts betting on at least seven. One question is whether the Fed will start the rate-hike cycle in March with a 50-point hike.</p><p>On a somewhat related note, supply-chain woes have been a constant refrain in recent weeks. General Electric (GE), Applied Materials (AMAT) and Roku (ROKU) were among the many companies that cited supply-chain issues continuing to restrict production and more.</p><p>Getting supply chain issues resolved would not only bolster corporate profits and economic growth, but also likely curb inflation. With Covid cases plunging and restrictions quickly ebbing, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel, but it could be a long way off.</p><h2>What To Do Now</h2><p>Rather than try to guess how Russia, the Federal Reserve and supply chains play out ā and how financial markets will react ā focus on what the market is doing now. Right now, the major indexes and leading stocks ā outside of a few pockets of strength ā are simply not healthy.</p><p>Don't get lured in by one or two good market days. The major indexes have a lot of work to do. In any case, there are only a handful of stocks setting up right now. At some point, there will be a strong market rally with a slew of quality stocks flashing buy signals and moving higher from there.</p><p>When that happens, you want to be ready. 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The stock market rally suffered significant damage last week, with the major indexes below key support and...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/dow-jones-futures-world-awaiting-ukraine-invasion-5-stocks-that-dont-suck/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"NVDA":"č±ä¼č¾¾","AAPL":"č¹ę"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/dow-jones-futures-world-awaiting-ukraine-invasion-5-stocks-that-dont-suck/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1110167345","content_text":"Dow Jones futures fell sharply Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The stock market rally suffered significant damage last week, with the major indexes below key support and starting to move toward their Jan. 24 lows.Fears that Russia will invade Ukraine are weighing heavily on the market rally, which is already dealing with inflation and other big headwinds. The uncertainty over what Russian President Vladimir Putin will do adds significantly to the volatility.Belarus said Sunday that its big war games with Russia will be extended beyond today, citing unrest in parts of Eastern Ukraine. Russia had said its troops would return home at the conclusion of the massive drills on Feb. 20. But Russian forces have continued to build up in recent days.Various reports, citing U.S. officials, say Russia has given military commanders orders to go ahead with an invasion of Ukraine. Commanders on the ground making specific plans for maneuvers.Publicly, Russia says it wants a diplomatic solution. Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday agreed to trilateral talks that would also include German and Ukrainian leadership, according to a French statement.President Joe Biden abruptly cancelled a Sunday trip to Delaware amid the Ukraine crisis.Biden late Friday said that he was confident that Putin has decided to invade Ukraine within the next few days. In a later tweet, he explained why the U.S. is proclaiming Russia's intentions in advance. \"We are doing everything in our power to remove any reason Russia may give to justify invading Ukraine.\"Cease-fire violations between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists have surged in the past few days. Separatist leaders have ordered a full military mobilization and civilian evacuation, claiming Ukraine is close to launching its own offensive. Local, pro-Russia media has claimed explosions in rebel-held parts of eastern Ukraine. These events offer a pretext for Russia to stay mobilized and likely to launch a new Ukraine invasion.The U.S. and Western nations are poised to impose major economic sanctions vs. Russia in the event of a Ukraine invasion. On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the West to impose sanctions now.But, setting aside the geopolitics, the stock market rally looks ever weaker. Investors should take a defensive posture with minimal exposure.Dow Jones Futures TodayDow Jones futures sank 0.8% vs. fair value. S&P 500 futures skidded 1.1% and Nasdaq 100 futures tumbled 2%.Crude oil futures rose nearly 2%.While Dow futures are open Sunday evening as usual, U.S. markets will be closed Monday in observance of the Presidents Day holiday. Other stock markets will be open around the world, however.Remember that overnight action in Dow futures and elsewhere doesn't necessarily translate into actual trading in the next regular stock market session.Five Stocks That Don't SuckApple stock, O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Commercial Metals (CMC), Union Pacific (UNP) and Nutrien (NTR) are five stocks holding up near buy points with relative strength lines at or near highs.Apple (AAPL) dwarfs all of these names, but it's the only one trading below its 50-day moving average.The RS line, the blue line in the charts provided, tracks a stock's performance vs. the S&P 500 index. It's an easy way to spot leading stocks in any kind of market. In a weak or choppy market, stocks with RS lines at highs could be leaders in the next rally.Nvidia, Tesla Just Hanging OnMeanwhile, Nvidia stock and Tesla (TSLA) rebounded from near their 200-day moving averages on Friday. This is an area where Tesla stock and Nvidia (NVDA) found support before in late January. Can these big former winners continue to do so? It'll likely depend on the market rally's next moves. But as megacap stocks, Tesla and NVDA stock will have something to say about the overall market direction.Trump's Truth Social To Launch?Donald Trump's Truth Social site is set to debut in Apple's App Store on Monday. That's according to posts from an executive viewed by Reuters. That could mean the return of former President Trump to social media on Presidents Day. Facebook and Twitter banned Trump from their networks in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021, storming of Capitol Hill.Truth Social is part of Trump Media & Technology Group. David Nunes, a former GOP congressman who now heads TMTC, has said recently that Truth Social will launch at the end of March.Trump Media is going public via a SPAC merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC). DWAC stock has done well in 2022 and appears to be consolidating once again.Analysts say Truth Social will be sure to attract a lot of users to start, but profitability could be difficult.Home Depot (HD) headlines earnings before Tuesday's open, while Mosaic (MOS) and Palo Alto Networks (PANW) are among those due after the close.Tesla stock and Nvidia are on IBD Leaderboard. ORLY stock is on the IBD 50. Commercial Metals was Friday's IBD Stock Of The Day. UNP stock was Thursday's.The video embedded in this article discussed the week's market action in detail, while also analyzing CMC stock, Union Pacific and new SwingTrader stock Dollar Tree (DLTR).Coronavirus NewsCoronavirus cases worldwide reached 424.78 million. Covid-19 deaths topped 5.9 million.Coronavirus cases in the U.S. have hit 80.08 million, with deaths above 959,000.New coronavirus cases have tumbled in the U.S. and worldwide, with hospitalizations and deaths also down. Covid restrictions are being scaled back or removed in many states and countries around the world. One exception is Hong Kong, which is seeing its first real spike of the pandemic.Stock Market RallyThe stock market rally tried to bounce last week but faded badly late in the week.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.9% in last week's stock market trading. The S&P 500 index gave up 1.6%. The Nasdaq composite sank 1.8%. The small-cap Russell 2000 retreated nearly 1%The 10-year Treasury yield fell 2 basis points to 1.93%, but that's after hitting a 30-month high of 2.065% intraday Wednesday. Russia war fears sent investors into safe havens, while Fed minutes from the January policy meeting didn't offer any new hawkish surprises.Crude oil prices fell more than 2% to $91.07 a barrel, but held above the $90 mark.ETFsAmong the best ETFs, the Innovator IBD 50 ETF (FFTY) fell 1% last week, while the Innovator IBD Breakout Opportunities ETF (BOUT) slumped 3%. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) tumbled 5.4%. The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH) closed flat, but fell sharply on Thursday-Friday. Nvidia stock is a major SMH component.SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF (XME) rose 2.1% last week. The Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (PAVE) gained 1.3%. U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS) ascended 1.8%. SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) dipped 0.5%. The Energy Select SPDR ETF (XLE) gave up 3.35% and the Financial Select SPDR ETF (XLF) sank 2.3%. The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) pulled back 2.1%.Reflecting more-speculative story stocks, ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) plunged 9.9% last week, hitting a fresh 20-month low on Friday. ARK Genomics ETF (ARKG) tumbled 6.6%. Tesla stock remains the No. 1 holding across ARK Invest's ETFs.Apple StockApple stock dipped 0.8% to 167.30 last week. During the late January market sell-off, the iPhone giant never came close to its 200-day line. AAPL stock now has a cup-with-handle base with a 176.75 buy point, according to MarketSmith analysis.Commercial Metals StockCommercial Metals stock rose 3.1% to 36.75 last week. It's slightly above its 50-day moving average, working on a 38.82 buy point. CMC stock could be starting to form a handle, with a potential lower entry of 37.59. Investors already could use that as an early entry.Union Pacific StockUnion Pacific jumped 5.2% to 251.19 last week. UNP stock is trading just below a 256.11 buy point in a very shallow flat base. Investors arguably could buy it now or just shy of 255.O'Reilly StockORLY stock edged up 1.3 to 676.96 last week, its fourth straight modest weekly gain. O'Reilly stock has reclaimed the 50-day line, offering an early entry in a shallow cup base. The official buy point is 710.96.Auto parts retailers often do well in tough markets. The business can thrive in difficult economic times. Right now, with new-car prices scarce and used-car prices soaring, many Americans may keep their old cars longer. That's good news for O'Reilly and its rivals.Nutrien StockNTR stock had a wild week, tumbling to undercut the 50-day line briefly before quickly rebounding to record high before pulling back slightly. But, ultimately, Nutrien stock dipped 0.7% to 75.78. That's just below a 77.45 buy point.On Wednesday night, the fertilizer maker reported a 929% EPS surge with revenue up 79%. Other fertilizer stocks also are doing well, despite some big intraday and daily swings. That includes MOS stock, which reports late Tuesday.Tesla StockTesla stock edged down 0.35% to 856.98 last week, but closed low in its range and nearly tested its 200-day line again on Friday. TSLA stock has been hitting resistance at its falling 21-day line for the past few weeks, while the 50-day line is racing lower. Holding the 200-day line, and its Jan. 28 low of 792.01, is key for the EV giant. On the upside, Tesla stock has a 1,208.10 buy point, and doesn't really have an early entry.Meanwhile, BYD (BYDDF) on Saturday launched the Yuan Plus in China, with pre-sales starting in Australia, a new market for the Chinese EV and battery giant. BYD recently signaled it'll sell 1.5 million EV and hybrids in 2022.Nvidia StockNvidia stock fell 1.3% to 236.42 for the week, but after hitting resistance at its 10-week line, the chip giant tested its 40-week again and nearly touched its 200-day line. As with Tesla, NVDA stock pared Friday's losses slightly.Nvidia earnings and guidance late Wednesday topped views, but investors focused on forecasts for unchanged profit margins.If Nvidia stock can rally above its 50-day line and its Feb. 10 high of 269.25, also breaking a steep downtrend, that would offer a very aggressive entry. NVDA stock would still have a long way to reach its Nov. 22 peak of 346.47.Market Rally AnalysisThe stock market rally, already under pressure, sold off again late last week. The Dow Jones, S&P 500 index and Nasdaq composite broke below their recent ranges and are heading toward their Jan. 24 lows. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite are now below their Jan. 31 follow-through day lows, with the odds high that they break to new lows. Undercutting the Jan. 24 lows would mark the end of the market rally.In late 2018, the stock market correction or bear market had two failed follow-through days, finally bottoming on Christmas Eve.The ailing market rally has retreated sharply over the last several days, so arguably it's due for a bounce. But it doesn't have to happen right away, and one or two good days wouldn't be that meaningful.New losers are still far outstripping new winners, while market breadth also weakened once again after briefly improving in early February.In the very short run, the stock market will continue to focus on fears that Russia invades Ukraine. The long Presidents Day weekend could have major developments related to Russia and Ukraine, raising the potential for a big move up or down on Tuesday. But all of those moves could quickly reverse with the next headline.Beyond the Russia-Ukraine crisis, inflation and Fed rate hikes hang over the market. JPMorgan economists now expect quarter-point rate hikes at nine consecutive Fed meetings, with many other Wall Street analysts betting on at least seven. One question is whether the Fed will start the rate-hike cycle in March with a 50-point hike.On a somewhat related note, supply-chain woes have been a constant refrain in recent weeks. General Electric (GE), Applied Materials (AMAT) and Roku (ROKU) were among the many companies that cited supply-chain issues continuing to restrict production and more.Getting supply chain issues resolved would not only bolster corporate profits and economic growth, but also likely curb inflation. With Covid cases plunging and restrictions quickly ebbing, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel, but it could be a long way off.What To Do NowRather than try to guess how Russia, the Federal Reserve and supply chains play out ā and how financial markets will react ā focus on what the market is doing now. Right now, the major indexes and leading stocks ā outside of a few pockets of strength ā are simply not healthy.Don't get lured in by one or two good market days. The major indexes have a lot of work to do. In any case, there are only a handful of stocks setting up right now. At some point, there will be a strong market rally with a slew of quality stocks flashing buy signals and moving higher from there.When that happens, you want to be ready. 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MRR increased 23% year over year, up from $82.6 million as of December 31, 2020 as more merchants joined the platform and the number of retail locations using POS Pro increased. Shopify Plus contributed $29.8 million, or 29%, of MRR compared with 25% of MRR as of December 31, 2020.</li><li>GMV for the fourth quarter was $54.1 billion, an increase of $12.9 billion or 31% over the fourth quarter of 2020. Gross Payments Volume3("GPV") grew to $27.7 billion, which accounted for 51% of GMV processed in the quarter, versus $19.1 billion, or 46%, for the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>Gross profit dollars grew 37% to $692.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with $504.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>Adjusted gross profit4dollars grew 37% to $700.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with $510.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>Operating income for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $14.4 million, or 1.0% of revenue, versus income of $112.5 million, or 12% of revenue, for the comparable period a year ago.</li><li>Adjusted operating income4for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $130.2 million, or 9% of revenue, compared with adjusted operating income of $200.0 million or 20% of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $371.3 million, or $2.95 per basic and diluted share, compared with net income of $123.9 million, or $0.99 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2020. Q4 2021 net income includes a $509.7 million net unrealized loss on our equity and other investments.</li><li>Adjusted net income4for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $172.8 million, or $1.36 per diluted share, compared with adjusted net income of $198.8 million, or $1.58 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>At December 31, 2021, Shopify had $7.77 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, compared with $6.39 billion at December 31, 2020. The increase reflects $1.5 billion of net proceeds from Shopify's offering of Class A subordinate voting shares in the first quarter of 2021 and $0.5 billion of net cash provided by operating activities, partially offset by the purchase of equity and other investments during 2021.</li></ul><p><b>Fourth-Quarter Business Highlights</b></p><ul><li>From the start of Black Friday in New Zealand, through the end of Cyber Monday in California, sales on Shopify's platform reached more than $6.3 billion. This compares with more than $5.1 billion in GMV for the global Black Friday Cyber Monday period in 2020. Shopify purchased enough carbon removal to completely eliminate the impact of carbon emissions from shipping on every single order on our platform over the shopping weekend, resulting in nearly 60,000 tonnes of carbon emissions offset.</li><li>Merchants in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. received $323.7 million in merchant cash advances and loans from Shopify Capital in the fourth quarter of 2021, an increase of 43% versus the $226.9 million funded in the fourth quarter of last year. Shopify Capital has grown to $3.0 billion in cumulative capital funded since its launch in April 2016, approximately $470.7 million of which was outstanding on December 31, 2021.</li><li>Shopify was named #1 on G2's Crowd Grid for E-commerce Platforms in its Winter 2022 report, retaining this leading position for the seventh consecutive year.</li></ul><p><b>Subsequent to Fourth Quarter 2021</b></p><ul><li>Shopify launched the JD Marketplace sales channel as part of a new partnership with JD.com, unlocking the world's largest ecommerce market forĀ merchants by giving them access to one of China's leading ecommerce marketplaces and supporting their cross-border commerce efforts. This new channel provides merchants with expedited onboarding to sell quickly, end-to-end fulfillment from JD's U.S. warehouses directly to consumers in China, smart price conversion to local currency, and intelligent translation of product names and descriptions, opening up access to JD's 550 million active customers in China.</li></ul></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Shopify Shares Rose Nearly 6% in Premarket Trading after Announcing Its Financial Results</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nShopify Shares Rose Nearly 6% in Premarket Trading after Announcing Its Financial Results\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2022-02-16 20:03</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><head></head><body><p>ShopifyĀ sharesĀ roseĀ nearlyĀ 6%Ā inĀ premarketĀ tradingĀ afterĀ announcingĀ its financial results.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/968bbfe86e5ff84aec1acddc73552c5c\" tg-width=\"717\" tg-height=\"608\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"/></p><p><b>Fourth-Quarter Financial Highlights</b></p><ul><li>Total revenue in the fourth quarter was $1,380.0 million, a 41% increase from the comparable quarter in 2020.</li><li>Subscription Solutions revenue was $351.2 million, up 26% year over year, primarily due to more merchants joining the platform.</li><li>Merchant Solutions revenue was $1,028.8 million, up 47% year over year, driven primarily by the growth of Gross Merchandise Volume1("GMV"), exceeding $1 billion of revenue for the first time in a single quarter.</li><li>Monthly Recurring Revenue2("MRR") as of December 31, 2021 was $102.0 million, surpassing $100 million for the first time. MRR increased 23% year over year, up from $82.6 million as of December 31, 2020 as more merchants joined the platform and the number of retail locations using POS Pro increased. Shopify Plus contributed $29.8 million, or 29%, of MRR compared with 25% of MRR as of December 31, 2020.</li><li>GMV for the fourth quarter was $54.1 billion, an increase of $12.9 billion or 31% over the fourth quarter of 2020. Gross Payments Volume3("GPV") grew to $27.7 billion, which accounted for 51% of GMV processed in the quarter, versus $19.1 billion, or 46%, for the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>Gross profit dollars grew 37% to $692.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with $504.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>Adjusted gross profit4dollars grew 37% to $700.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with $510.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>Operating income for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $14.4 million, or 1.0% of revenue, versus income of $112.5 million, or 12% of revenue, for the comparable period a year ago.</li><li>Adjusted operating income4for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $130.2 million, or 9% of revenue, compared with adjusted operating income of $200.0 million or 20% of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $371.3 million, or $2.95 per basic and diluted share, compared with net income of $123.9 million, or $0.99 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2020. Q4 2021 net income includes a $509.7 million net unrealized loss on our equity and other investments.</li><li>Adjusted net income4for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $172.8 million, or $1.36 per diluted share, compared with adjusted net income of $198.8 million, or $1.58 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2020.</li><li>At December 31, 2021, Shopify had $7.77 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, compared with $6.39 billion at December 31, 2020. The increase reflects $1.5 billion of net proceeds from Shopify's offering of Class A subordinate voting shares in the first quarter of 2021 and $0.5 billion of net cash provided by operating activities, partially offset by the purchase of equity and other investments during 2021.</li></ul><p><b>Fourth-Quarter Business Highlights</b></p><ul><li>From the start of Black Friday in New Zealand, through the end of Cyber Monday in California, sales on Shopify's platform reached more than $6.3 billion. This compares with more than $5.1 billion in GMV for the global Black Friday Cyber Monday period in 2020. Shopify purchased enough carbon removal to completely eliminate the impact of carbon emissions from shipping on every single order on our platform over the shopping weekend, resulting in nearly 60,000 tonnes of carbon emissions offset.</li><li>Merchants in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. received $323.7 million in merchant cash advances and loans from Shopify Capital in the fourth quarter of 2021, an increase of 43% versus the $226.9 million funded in the fourth quarter of last year. Shopify Capital has grown to $3.0 billion in cumulative capital funded since its launch in April 2016, approximately $470.7 million of which was outstanding on December 31, 2021.</li><li>Shopify was named #1 on G2's Crowd Grid for E-commerce Platforms in its Winter 2022 report, retaining this leading position for the seventh consecutive year.</li></ul><p><b>Subsequent to Fourth Quarter 2021</b></p><ul><li>Shopify launched the JD Marketplace sales channel as part of a new partnership with JD.com, unlocking the world's largest ecommerce market forĀ merchants by giving them access to one of China's leading ecommerce marketplaces and supporting their cross-border commerce efforts. This new channel provides merchants with expedited onboarding to sell quickly, end-to-end fulfillment from JD's U.S. warehouses directly to consumers in China, smart price conversion to local currency, and intelligent translation of product names and descriptions, opening up access to JD's 550 million active customers in China.</li></ul></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SHOP":"Shopify Inc"},"source_url":"","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1100041592","content_text":"ShopifyĀ sharesĀ roseĀ nearlyĀ 6%Ā inĀ premarketĀ tradingĀ afterĀ announcingĀ its financial results.Fourth-Quarter Financial HighlightsTotal revenue in the fourth quarter was $1,380.0 million, a 41% increase from the comparable quarter in 2020.Subscription Solutions revenue was $351.2 million, up 26% year over year, primarily due to more merchants joining the platform.Merchant Solutions revenue was $1,028.8 million, up 47% year over year, driven primarily by the growth of Gross Merchandise Volume1(\"GMV\"), exceeding $1 billion of revenue for the first time in a single quarter.Monthly Recurring Revenue2(\"MRR\") as of December 31, 2021 was $102.0 million, surpassing $100 million for the first time. MRR increased 23% year over year, up from $82.6 million as of December 31, 2020 as more merchants joined the platform and the number of retail locations using POS Pro increased. Shopify Plus contributed $29.8 million, or 29%, of MRR compared with 25% of MRR as of December 31, 2020.GMV for the fourth quarter was $54.1 billion, an increase of $12.9 billion or 31% over the fourth quarter of 2020. Gross Payments Volume3(\"GPV\") grew to $27.7 billion, which accounted for 51% of GMV processed in the quarter, versus $19.1 billion, or 46%, for the fourth quarter of 2020.Gross profit dollars grew 37% to $692.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with $504.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2020.Adjusted gross profit4dollars grew 37% to $700.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with $510.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2020.Operating income for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $14.4 million, or 1.0% of revenue, versus income of $112.5 million, or 12% of revenue, for the comparable period a year ago.Adjusted operating income4for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $130.2 million, or 9% of revenue, compared with adjusted operating income of $200.0 million or 20% of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020.Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $371.3 million, or $2.95 per basic and diluted share, compared with net income of $123.9 million, or $0.99 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2020. Q4 2021 net income includes a $509.7 million net unrealized loss on our equity and other investments.Adjusted net income4for the fourth quarter of 2021 was $172.8 million, or $1.36 per diluted share, compared with adjusted net income of $198.8 million, or $1.58 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2020.At December 31, 2021, Shopify had $7.77 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, compared with $6.39 billion at December 31, 2020. The increase reflects $1.5 billion of net proceeds from Shopify's offering of Class A subordinate voting shares in the first quarter of 2021 and $0.5 billion of net cash provided by operating activities, partially offset by the purchase of equity and other investments during 2021.Fourth-Quarter Business HighlightsFrom the start of Black Friday in New Zealand, through the end of Cyber Monday in California, sales on Shopify's platform reached more than $6.3 billion. This compares with more than $5.1 billion in GMV for the global Black Friday Cyber Monday period in 2020. Shopify purchased enough carbon removal to completely eliminate the impact of carbon emissions from shipping on every single order on our platform over the shopping weekend, resulting in nearly 60,000 tonnes of carbon emissions offset.Merchants in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. received $323.7 million in merchant cash advances and loans from Shopify Capital in the fourth quarter of 2021, an increase of 43% versus the $226.9 million funded in the fourth quarter of last year. Shopify Capital has grown to $3.0 billion in cumulative capital funded since its launch in April 2016, approximately $470.7 million of which was outstanding on December 31, 2021.Shopify was named #1 on G2's Crowd Grid for E-commerce Platforms in its Winter 2022 report, retaining this leading position for the seventh consecutive year.Subsequent to Fourth Quarter 2021Shopify launched the JD Marketplace sales channel as part of a new partnership with JD.com, unlocking the world's largest ecommerce market forĀ merchants by giving them access to one of China's leading ecommerce marketplaces and supporting their cross-border commerce efforts. This new channel provides merchants with expedited onboarding to sell quickly, end-to-end fulfillment from JD's U.S. warehouses directly to consumers in China, smart price conversion to local currency, and intelligent translation of product names and descriptions, opening up access to JD's 550 million active customers in China.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":196,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}