Warren Buffett , who came into 2025 with the most cash he’s ever owned, is now presented with an ugly market meltdown and extreme volatility — an environment where he’s known to thrive. Buffett, the fabled father of value investing, has a long history of taking advantage of depressed periods to hunt bargains and put together prompt deals. Although Buffett is against timing the market and will admit he has no ability to predict short-term trends, his positioning ahead of the current market turmoil appears particularly prescient. Over the past year, Buffett had been aggressively offloading his two biggest equity holdings…
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The Israeli military struck and destroyed part of a hospital in northern Gaza early on Sunday morning, shortly after telling patients and staff to evacuate the site. The attack came hours after the Israeli government announced that its troops fighting elsewhere in the territory had expanded their occupation of the southern Gaza Strip, severing links between two strategically located Palestinian cities.No one was killed in the attack on the Ahli Arab Hospital, but a child being treated for a head injury died because of the rushed evacuation, according to a statement released by the Anglican Church in Jerusalem, which oversees…
While U.S.-China trade tensions escalate , analysts predict a handful of Chinese companies could win out on Beijing’s efforts to double down on generative artificial intelligence. “We expect AI demand to stay strong as deepseek cost improvements have driven application development such that companies are seeing AI development as critical for growth and for competition,” Bernstein analyst Boris Van and a team said in an April 7 note. “We also expect the development for the AI+chip ecosystem to be a key push from the government to offset tariff impacts,” the analysts said. Chinese companies have rushed to try out DeepSeek’s…
The chaos around tariffs continues to rattle global stock markets, as fears of higher costs and concerns over a potential economic slowdown weigh on investor sentiment.However, the pullback in several stocks due to these ongoing challenges has created an opportunity to pick attractive stocks trading at compelling levels. Top Wall Street analysts can help identify stocks that could navigate short-term headwinds and deliver solid returns over the long term.With that in mind, here are three stocks favored by the Street’s top pros, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance.Affirm HoldingsWe start this week with Affirm…
The Magnificent Seven stocks — which have underperformed in 2025 after a two-year monster run — are starting to attract interest again now that they’re trading at or below valuations from before the unveiling of ChatGPT, which accelerated the AI boom. On a trailing 12-month basis, Amazon is trading at a 32 price-to-earnings ratio — well below the 86 it was at Nov. 30, 2022, when the release of OpenAI’s chatbot sparked a stock market rally. Nvidia, poster child for the ensuing AI rally, is now trading at a roughly 36 P/E, far below the 56 handle it was at…
Russian missile strikes killed at least 21 people on Sunday in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, local officials said — the latest in a string of attacks on urban centers that have caused heavy civilian casualties.Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said Russia attacked the center of Sumy with ballistic missiles when the streets were crowded with civilians out enjoying Palm Sunday, a Christian celebration popular in Ukraine. At least 20 people were injured, Mr. Klymenko added.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine posted a video on social media that he said showed the aftermath of the attack in Sumy, just 18…
ANTALYA, TURKIYE- APRIL 12: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks on the second day of the diplomatic forum on April 12, 2025 in Antalya, Türkiye. The Antalya Diplomacy Forum 2025 (ADF), organized for the fourth time in Antalya under the auspices of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and hosted by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, started on April 11-13. (Photo by Mert Gokhan Koc/ dia images via Getty Images)Dia Images | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesRussia and Ukraine’s top diplomats on Saturday used a high-level conference in Turkey to once again trade accusations of violating a tentative U.S.-brokered deal to pause…
Batman and Robin have taken a break from fighting crime in Gotham City to swoop on low-level scammers swindling tourists in the center of London.Footage shared by the Metropolitan Police on Friday showed undercover officers disguised in the superhero costumes tackling a man who was running a street entertainment game similar to “three-card monte” near Parliament. The police said the game was an illegal gambling operation.In the video, filmed by the police during an operation in February, the officer dressed as Batman could be seen running along Westminster Bridge wearing the character’s traditional mask, flanked by Robin in a comic…
For the two men at the forefront of a trade war that has begun to rupture ties between the world’s biggest economies, the question has become who will blink first.On one side is President Trump, who unleashed a disruptive plan to transform the modern global trading system with tariffs — only to back down hours after it took effect, pausing the import duties for every country but China.On the other side is Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, who has a well-earned reputation for refusing to yield. He stuck to China’s tight Covid restrictions long past the point where they were…
View of the headquarters of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesTOKYO, April 13 (Reuters) – Japan must strengthen the yen, such as by helping boost the country’s industrial competitiveness, as the currency’s weakness has pushed up households’ living costs, the ruling party’s policy chief said on Sunday.Ahead of trade talks with the U.S., Itsunori Onodera, chair of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Policy Research Council, also said Japan should not intentionally sell its U.S. Treasury holdings, the largest outside the United States, in retaliation against tariffs levied by President Donald Trump.”As a U.S. ally, the…
