Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKB) has held Coca Cola (NYSE: KO) in the conglomerate's massive portfolio for more than 35 years. The Oracle of Omaha invested $1 billion in the soft drink giant right after the 1987 market crash. As of September, 2025, Berkshire Hathaway held 400 million shares of Coke, worth about $30.8 billion at today's share price. And the stock made up 9.4% of the...
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKB) has held Coca Cola (NYSE: KO) in the conglomerate's massive portfolio for more than 35 years. The Oracle of Omaha invested $1 billion in the soft drink giant right after the 1987 market crash. As of September, 2025, Berkshire Hathaway held 400 million shares of Coke, worth about $30.8 billion at today's share price. And the stock made up 9.4% of the portfolio, one of Berkshire's largest holdings. Suddenly, however, Coke shares are falling. The share price dropped notably in pre-market trading on Feb. 10 -- as much as 2.5% -- and ended the day down about 1.6%, a big drop for Coca-Cola in a single session. What's going on? Continue reading
American Colleges Received $5.2 Billion In Foreign Funding In 2025, Education Department Reveals Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), American colleges and universities received more than $5.2 billion in reportable foreign gifts and contracts last year through more than 8,300 transactions , the Department of Education said in a Feb. 11 statement. The Massachusetts In...
American Colleges Received $5.2 Billion In Foreign Funding In 2025, Education Department Reveals Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), American colleges and universities received more than $5.2 billion in reportable foreign gifts and contracts last year through more than 8,300 transactions , the Department of Education said in a Feb. 11 statement. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Mass., on May 25, 2025. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times The database was compiled from foreign funding disclosures submitted by educational institutions. Such disclosures are mandated by Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, which obligates universities and colleges receiving federal funding to annually disclose gifts and contracts from foreign sources valued at $250,000 or more. The top recipient of foreign funds last year was Carnegie Mellon University, which received almost $1 billion. This was followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , also at nearly $1 billion, Stanford University , which got more than $775 million, and Harvard University, which received more than $324 million, the department said. Qatar was the biggest foreign source of reported gifts and contracts, pouring more than $1 billion into U.S. educational institutions last year. This was followed by the United Kingdom at more than $633 million, China at more than $528 million, Switzerland with $451 million plus, Japan with $374 million, Germany at more than $292 million, and Saudi Arabia spending more than $285 million. The data has been made available for public inspection via the foreign funding higher education platform launched earlier this year by the Trump administration. The information is based on reports through Dec. 16, 2025. Between 1986, when Section 117 was included in the Act, and Dec. 16, 2025, a total of $67.6 billion in foreign funding had been reported across 555 institutions, data from the platform show. Qatar also topped the ag...
In this article CSCO Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT An aerial view of Singapore's skyline. Tong Thi Viet Phuong | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened mostly lower Friday after fears about artificial intelligence disruption in the U.S. sent the S&P 500 to a third straight day of losses. Certain pockets of the U.S. stock market have been hit this year by the release of...
In this article CSCO Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT An aerial view of Singapore's skyline. Tong Thi Viet Phuong | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened mostly lower Friday after fears about artificial intelligence disruption in the U.S. sent the S&P 500 to a third straight day of losses. Certain pockets of the U.S. stock market have been hit this year by the release of AI tools that could replicate their businesses — or at least eat into their profit margins. Shares of several trucking and logistics companies declined on fears that new AI tools could slash major freight inefficiencies, leading to less demand for the industry's services. Real estate and financial stocks were also casualties, with commercial real estate brokers extending losses for a second straight day. Investors in Asia were watching for any spillover effects, though Taiwan — the most prominent market in the AI space — was closed for the Lunar New Year holiday. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was 1.02% down in early trade. Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 0.58%, after briefly touching 58,000 on Thursday. The Topix declined 0.58%. South Korea's Kospi added 0.35%, while the small-cap Kosdaq retreated 1.36%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures were at 26,703, lower than the index's last close of 27,032.54. Overnight on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 1.34%, led lower by Cisco Systems , which slid 12% after the firm issued disappointing guidance for the current quarter. The S&P 500 dropped 1.57%, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 2.03%. —CNBC's Sean Conlon, Pia Singh and Sarah Min contributed to this report.
Getty Images Quarterly review The Allspring Growth Fund underperformed the Russell 3000 Growth Index during the fourth quarter. Holdings within information technology ( IT ) and consumer discretionary detracted from returns. Security selection within industrials and health care contributed positively to performance. Market review - 2025 in review U.S. equities delivered a third consecutive year of...
Getty Images Quarterly review The Allspring Growth Fund underperformed the Russell 3000 Growth Index during the fourth quarter. Holdings within information technology ( IT ) and consumer discretionary detracted from returns. Security selection within industrials and health care contributed positively to performance. Market review - 2025 in review U.S. equities delivered a third consecutive year of positive returns in 2025, with gains once again concentrated in growth-oriented parts of the market. Stocks in the IT and communication services sectors remained central to index performance as investors continued to reward companies positioned to capture outsized demand from the buildout of artificial intelligence ( AI )—particularly those showing business momentum and pricing power. The year was also a reminder that markets can “climb a wall of worry” even when policy headlines are destabilizing. Early spring delivered the most dramatic test: The White House’s April 2 “Liberation Day” action jolted risk assets, reviving trade-war fears and forcing investors to reconsider inflation and margin assumptions. Over time, the tariff story became more iterative, marked by pauses and modifications that reduced the immediate sense of worst-case outcomes even as it remained a persistent overhang in corporate and consumer sentiment. Fundamentals ultimately mattered more than headlines. Earnings tied to end markets with strong demand—especially AI—proved resilient, helping offset macroeconomic crosscurrents that ranged from trade policy and politics to immigration debates and gradually cooling labor markets. At the consumer level, conditions looked increasingly uneven: Higher-income households continued to spend, while middle- and lower-income cohorts showed clearer signs of trade-down behavior amid ongoing affordability pressure. Against that backdrop, market breadth improved episodically, but overall performance remained heavily influenced by a concentrated set of large-cap winners...