{"id":974736,"date":"2025-11-18T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974736"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:31:44","slug":"bill-gates-foundation-shocks-market-as-it-makes-a-big-cut-in-microsoft-shares-losing-majority-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/bill-gates-foundation-shocks-market-as-it-makes-a-big-cut-in-microsoft-shares-losing-majority-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Foundation &#8216;shocks&#8217; market as it makes a &#8216;big cut&#8217; in Microsoft shares; losing &#8216;majority status&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates Foundation has stunned markets by drastically reducing its stake in Microsoft by almost 65% in the third quarter of 2025. As per new 13F data, the foundation has dumped 17,000,000 shares of Microsoft, equivalent to 64.91% reduction. According to reports, the average selling point of Microsoft shares during Q3, 2025 was $510.13, resulting in a total cash inflow of approximately $8.7 billion for the trust. The move caused a 17.7% drop in the portfolio\u2019s value, leading to concerns since Microsoft has always been the foundation\u2019s main and most reliable investment.<\/p>\n<p>Other shares dumped by Gates Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates Foundation has stunned markets by drastically reducing its stake in Microsoft by almost 65% in the third quarter of 2025. As per new 13F data, the foundation has dumped 17,000,000 shares of Microsoft, equivalent to 64.91% reduction. According to reports, the average selling point of Microsoft shares during Q3, 2025 was $510.13, resulting in a total cash inflow of approximately $8.7 billion for the trust. The move caused a 17.7% drop in the portfolio\u2019s value, leading to concerns since Microsoft has always been the foundation\u2019s main and most reliable investment. Other shares dumped by Gates Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974736","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}