{"id":1029105,"date":"2026-08-17T07:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029105"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:49:09","slug":"berkshire-hathaway-boosted-stake-in-alphabet-homebuilders-in-the-second-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/berkshire-hathaway-boosted-stake-in-alphabet-homebuilders-in-the-second-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Hathaway boosted stake in Alphabet, homebuilders in the second quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway is increasing the size of its stake in Google&#8217;s parent company and beefing up its holdings in homebuilders, according to the conglomerate&#8217;s latest snapshot of its investment portfolio. <\/p>\n<p>The Omaha, Nebraska-based company also continued to pare its stake in financial companies and a number of other stocks in the April-June quarter, according to a regulatory filing filed late Friday. <\/p>\n<p>CEO Greg Abel, who took over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year, agreed in June to make a $10 billion stock investment in Alphabet, expanding on the stake that Berkshire started to build last fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway is increasing the size of its stake in Google&#8217;s parent company and beefing up its holdings in homebuilders, according to the conglomerate&#8217;s latest snapshot of its investment portfolio. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company also continued to pare its stake in financial companies and a number of other stocks in the April-June quarter, according to a regulatory filing filed late Friday. CEO Greg Abel, who took over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year, agreed in June to make a $10 billion stock investment in Alphabet, expanding on the stake that Berkshire started to build last fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029119,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029105\/revisions\/1029119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}