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Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024. David A. GroganWarren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway continued to increase its stake in SiriusXM, now owning 32% of the New York-based satellite radio company.The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate purchased roughly 3.6 million shares for about $87 million in separate transactions Wednesday through Friday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Friday.Berkshire hiked its bet after billionaire John Malone's Liberty Media completed its deal in early September to combine its tracking stocks with the rest of the audio entertainment company. It was part of Malone's reshuffling of his sprawling media empire that also includ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Europa Clipper spacecraft aboard launches from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on October 14, 2024. Chandan Khanna | Afp | Getty ImagesFor decades, an icy moon of Jupiter has been considered one of the most promising places to search for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Thought to have an underground ocean and a potentially habitable environment, Europa has long seemed a tantalizing target in our cosmic backyard.Now, humanity is poised to get a closer look at Jupiter's fourth-largest moon.At 12:06 p.m. ET on Monday, NASA launched a new mission to Europa, dubbed Europa Clipper. The largest spacecraft the agency has ever built for a planetary science mission, the probe lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Cen...

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, speaks during an event in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024.Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNvidia shares closed at a record on Monday as Wall Street gears up for earnings season and updates from all of the chipmaker's top customers on their planned spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.The stock climbed 2.4% to close at $138.07, topping its prior high of $135.58 on June 18. The shares are now up almost 180% for the year and have soared more than nine-fold since the beginning of 2023.Nvidia, widely viewed as the company selling the picks and shovels for the AI gold rush, has been the biggest beneficiary of the generative AI boom, which started with the public release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022. Nvidia's graphics proc...

Recent geopolitical tensions and election-related noise have caused volatility in the markets that are outside an investor's control. When investing in such times, Kim Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners, has certain principles she follows to ensure a successful portfolio. During an interview with CNBC's " The Exchange " on Monday, Forrest advised investors to look for companies that consistently outperform their peers. She also owns names with solid balance sheets. In addition, she said to seek out companies that focus on product marketing, or keep their customers' needs central to ensure retention. These factors combined ensure that a company can outperform against its peers, according to Forrest. "That's what we look for — not who's going to be president and then...

Shares of Trump Media closed up more than 18% on Monday, extending the Truth Social owner's dramatic recovery from recent stock price lows and adding hundreds of millions of dollars to Donald Trump's on-paper net worth.The recent DJT surge came as multiple online election betting markets appeared to show betting odds shifting in Trump's favor, after weeks of tilting toward the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.Monday's surge also coincided with Trump Media's launch of a new site for its TV streaming app, Truth+.Trump Media was trading above $30 per share at its intraday peak, and closed at $29.95.The stock has experienced a wild flurry of trading in recent sessions, with shares being exchanged at multiple times the company's 30-day average volume. More than 57 million shares...