European stocks rose Wednesday amid renewed optimism in Germany, the continent’s largest economy. The German Ifo business-climate index, a closely watched survey of business sentiment, rose for a third consecutive month in April and also beat economists’ expectations. Germany’s DAX Index rose 0.2% in morning trading and is now 8.5% up in 2024, outperforming the pan-European Stoxx 600’s 6% rise over the same period.
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Berkshire Hathaway has sold its entire stake in Paramount Global losing “quite a bit of money,” Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett said at the company’s annual meeting on Saturday. Buffett also shot down speculation that Ted Weschler or Todd Combs, who together run about 10% of Berkshire Hathaway’s equity portfolio, had purchased the Paramount stake, taking responsibility for the investment himself. “It was 100% my decision and we’ve sold it all and we lost quite a bit of money,” said Buffett.
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Berkshire Hathaway's first quarter profits plummeted along with the paper value of its investments, but the company said Saturday that most of the businesses it owns outright performed well. The figures were heavily influenced by a large drop in the paper value of Berkshire’s investments. Buffett encourages investors to pay more attention to the conglomerate’s operating earnings that exclude the investment figures.
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(Reuters) -China's Ping An Insurance Group Co the biggest Asian investor in HSBC PLC did not support reappointing chief executive Noel Quinn as a director to the banks board at the its shareholder meeting, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Saturday, as the investor voted against such a move. Quinn, who has announced he will step down as chief executive once a successor is appointed, last year defeated Ping An's long campaign to get HSBC to spin off its Asia business. Europe's biggest bank had faced proposals submitted by Hong Kong-based individual investor Ken Lui and backed by its biggest Asian shareholder Ping An to consider a radical restructuring and to boost its dividends.
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