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Add as a preferred source on GoogleThe proposed sale would be Berkshire’s second yen offering of 2026 and its second since Warren Buffett stepped down as CEO.
Berkshire Hathaway’s proposed transaction would mark its second yen bond sale in 2026 after April, matching its pattern of about two such offerings a year.
It would be the company’s second yen bond transaction in the period after Buffett left the chief executive role. The company’s April transaction had six tranches.
At Berkshire Hathaway’s May 5, 2018, annual meeting, he used the example while answering a question about political division in the United States.
Class A closed at $820,500 and Class B at $546.97 on Oct. 22, CNBC reported. Berkshire Chairman Warren Buffett said in May 2025 that he would recommend Greg Abel as CEO.
Alphabet entered Berkshire’s five largest equity holdings by June 30, while the company retained $359.2 billion in cash and U.S. Treasury bills, net of unsettled purchase payables.
