{"id":955169,"date":"2025-08-16T08:41:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955169"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:26:46","slug":"warren-buffetts-berkshire-takes-1-6-billion-unitedhealth-stake-trims-apple-exits-t-mobile-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/16\/warren-buffetts-berkshire-takes-1-6-billion-unitedhealth-stake-trims-apple-exits-t-mobile-in-q2\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire takes $1.6 billion UnitedHealth stake, trims Apple, exits T-Mobile in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a surprise $1.6 billion bet on troubled health insurer UnitedHealth Group in the second quarter, while paring back its Apple and Bank of America holdings and fully exiting its T-Mobile US position, a regulatory filing showed Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The Omaha-based conglomerate bought more than 5 million UnitedHealth shares during the quarter, sending the stock up as much as 9.6% in post-market trading. The stake ranks as Berkshire\u2019s 18th-largest equity position, despite the insurer\u2019s battered image, its shares were down nearly 50% this year before the filing, amid a Justice Department investigation into Medicare billing, a CEO resignation, and repeated profit warnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a surprise $1.6 billion bet on troubled health insurer UnitedHealth Group in the second quarter, while paring back its Apple and Bank of America holdings and fully exiting its T-Mobile US position, a regulatory filing showed Thursday. The Omaha-based conglomerate bought more than 5 million UnitedHealth shares during the quarter, sending the stock up as much as 9.6% in post-market trading. The stake ranks as Berkshire\u2019s 18th-largest equity position, despite the insurer\u2019s battered image, its shares were down nearly 50% this year before the filing, amid a Justice Department investigation into Medicare billing, a CEO [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955169","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=955169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}