{"id":5813,"date":"2026-08-09T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/09\/greg-abel-deploys-buffetts-365-billion-cash-hoard-as-berkshire-hathaway-earnings-climb-16\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:49:08","slug":"greg-abel-deploys-buffetts-365-billion-cash-hoard-as-berkshire-hathaway-earnings-climb-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/09\/greg-abel-deploys-buffetts-365-billion-cash-hoard-as-berkshire-hathaway-earnings-climb-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Abel Deploys Buffett&#8217;s $365 Billion Cash Hoard as Berkshire Hathaway Earnings Climb 16%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s operating earnings surged 16% to $12.98 billion in the second quarter, driven by strong performance in its energy, railroad, and manufacturing businesses. Under new CEO Greg Abel, the company is actively deploying its record $365 billion cash hoard, becoming a net buyer of equities after a period of selling.<\/p>\n<p>The conglomerate made significant stock purchases, including a $10 billion investment in Alphabet, and repurchased $4.5 billion of its own shares, signaling a new phase of capital allocation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/07\/berkshire-earnings-may-prove-stock-is-cheap-and-that-abel-and-buffett-think-so-too.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s operating earnings surged 16% to $12.98 billion in the second quarter, driven by strong performance in its energy, railroad, and manufacturing businesses. Under new CEO Greg Abel, the company is actively deploying its record $365 billion cash hoard, becoming a net buyer of equities after a period of selling. The conglomerate made significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnbc.com\/dims\/dims\/FDA6751E97E30169D723B815885B1952\/crop\/4343x2442+0+228\/resize\/1920x1080\/filters:format(jpeg)\/2024\/08\/07\/20260502-ABELL.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","rifnote_executive-greg-abel","rifnote_executive-warren-buffett"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnbc.com\/dims\/dims\/FDA6751E97E30169D723B815885B1952\/crop\/4343x2442+0+228\/resize\/1920x1080\/filters:format(jpeg)\/2024\/08\/07\/20260502-ABELL.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}