Berkshire Hathaway‘s fourth-quarter operating earnings surge 71%, Apple plans to spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years, Alibaba plans to invest more than $52 billion on artificial intelligence over the next three years,

U.S. stocks ticked up Monday morning and looked poised to rebound from last week’s decline. Investors are now turning their attention to Nvidia’s upcoming earnings — the first time the AI chipmaker is reporting results since a breakthrough by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek sparked a selloff in Nvidia and other tech stocks last month.

Warren Buffett wrote in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that despite the conglomerate's record cash haul, the "substantial majority" of their money is in equities.

Berkshire Hathaway's net stock sales totaled a record $134 billion in 2024, and the company finished the year with a record amount of cash on its balance sheet Warren Buffett and his fellow investment managers are struggling to find compelling stocks at reasonable prices in the current market environment.