Warren Buffett Raises Stakes in 5 Japanese Trading Houses | Global News Avenue

Warren Buffett’s Hathaway (brk.a) (bk.bIt reportedly added stakes among five largest trading institutions in Japan.

Berkshire revealed on Monday it added five Transaction house– Based on 1 percentage point to 1.7 percentage points, Itochu, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo, bringing the company’s shares between 8.5% and 9.8%. Wall Street Journal.

Buffett in his Annual letter to shareholders Three weeks ago, he might buy more stocks in the company. He praised their managers for their careful allocation of cash and for being modest by American standards Executive compensation arrange.

when Buffett According to his shareholder letter, he began buying stocks in 2019 and agreed not to acquire more than 10% of any company. He recently revealed that the companies have agreed to ease the restrictions, allowing Berkshire to freely increase its stake beyond the purchase disclosed on Monday.

Berkshire’s cash reserves doubled last year

Buffett has been Net Stock Seller last year. The latest annual report says Berkshire’s cash pile totaled $34.2 billion at the end of last year. Buffett insists in his annual letter that despite Berkshire’s trading portfolio of securities has decreasedThe vast majority“Berkshire investors’ funds are still in stocks.

Buffett’s stock sales leave alarm bells for some investors Beware of valuation. These concerns have fallen into President Trump’s tariff policy in recent weeks, causing the S&P 500 to fall into The first correction since 2023 last week. The uncertainty surrounding tariffs and their consequences partially undermines the “American exceptionalist” narrative of huge returns in the U.S. stock market over the past two years.

On the other hand, Japanese stocks have been trading sideways for the past year after the 2023 rally. Nikkei 225 index Over the past year, it has fallen by about 6%, while the S&P 500 (even a recent pullback can be) predicts nearly 10%.