The Berkshire Hathaway CEO believes volatility shouldn't matter to those who view their equity stakes as small pieces of businesses.
Volatility is back, and investment icon Warren Buffett thinks you shouldn't be scared. A blowout September jobs report , surging bond yields and expectations for higher interest rates that last a while stoked big price swings in the stock market lately, leaving investors on edge. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO believes volatility shouldn't matter to those who view their stock holdings as small pieces of businesses.
Market" is an imaginary investor driven by panic and euphoria, who comes around every day and offers you a price at which you would either buy or sell. A savvy investor can buy the dip when Mr. Market is too pessimistic, and exit a stock when he's overly bullish. "No one ever gets that in a private business, where daily you get a buy-sell offer by a party. But in the stock market you get it," Buffett said at Berkshire's shareholder meeting in 1997 .
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway keeps selling off its HP shares at a loss this weekWarren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway continued selling off more of its HP Inc. shares this week at a loss and dropped its stake below 10% of the maker of printers and computers. Berkshire sold another 3 million shares Tuesday. HP’s shares have been selling around $26 dollars this week after taking a sharp fall of nearly 14% over the past month. The stock of the Palo Alto, California-based company was selling in the mid $30s last spring when Berkshire first bought it. It’s still not clear whether Buffett plans to unload all of Berkshire’s HP shares. But it's looking more like the HP investment will wind up similar to Buffett's ill-fated IBM purchases more than a decade ago instead of like his wildly successful Apple stake.
Read more »
Silver Price Analysis: XAG/USD demonstrates volatility squeeze ahead of US Employment dataSilver price (XAG/USD) delivers topsy-turvy moves in a narrow range of $21.00 as investors have sidelined ahead of the United States labor market data
Read more »
Sui price volatility could resume as Foundation withdraws 117 million SUI tokens from external market makersSui (SUI) price has been trading within a narrow range, not giving actionable room for longs and shorts to get value for their bets. From an onlooker’
Read more »
USD/JPY demonstrates volatility squeeze near 149.00 after a flash crashThe USD/JPY pair trades back and forth in a narrow range around 149.00 in the early New York session. The volatility of the pair contracts after Tuesd
Read more »
Investors can get a 5% yield in these assets and skip the bond market volatilityHere's what to know about government money market funds.
Read more »
Investors are hiding out in cash, putting 20.4% aside, as volatility erupts, State Street saysForget 60/40 — for now
Read more »