What Warren Buffett s losing battle against S&P 500 says about this market CNBC 1/8/2021 Eric Rosenbaum
With $140-billion-plus in cash, analysts described 2020 as another year in which the lack of a transformative deal from Warren Buffett weighed on investor sentiment.
Buffett s biggest buy: at least $18 billion in buybacks of Berkshire Hathaway shares.
The 2019-2020 two-year performance gap between Buffet and the S&P 500 index was among the widest by which he has ever trailed, at 37%.
If the market takes a turn for the worse, Berkshire could be inexpensive. Almost half of Berkshire s roughly $500 billion market cap is currently represented by balance sheet cash and its Apple stake, and his last big losing streak against the index was followed by a surge.
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UK strikes Singapore and Vietnam trade deals, start of new era of trade with Asia
International Trade Secretary Liz Truss was in Singapore today to sign a Free Trade Agreement with the thriving city-state.
From: International Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Trade and Industry
New continuity trade deals with Singapore and Vietnam will deepen relationships in the Indo-Pacific region and deliver vital certainty for UK business.
Singapore deal paves the way for a cutting-edge relationship in digital as part of the government’s plan to make the UK a global hub for tech and services trade post-Brexit.