Warren Buffett is investing more money in Japan amid the recent selloff in the U.S. stock market

• Hathaway’s Berkshire increased his shares In the five largest commercial houses in Japan, according to the organizational disclosure that was published on Monday. The investment comes as the US stock market holds a major sale, although analysts complain that asset prices are low enough for Lauren Buffett to start publishing a huge cash pile for a large purchase.

Berkshire Hathaway from Warren Buffett invests more money in Japan amid recent sales in the US Securities Market.

The group increased its shares in the five largest commercial role in Japan, according to the Japanese organizational stadiums that were published on Monday.

Berkshire has grown in Mitsui to 9.82 % of 8.09 %, in Mitsubishi to 9.67 % of 8.31 %, in Marubeni to 9.3 % from 8.3 %, in Sumitomu to 9.29 % of 8.23 ​​%, and in Itochu to 8.53 % from 7.47 %.

Bouvit compared them to Berkshire itself, indicating that they have a variety of investments at home and abroad.

Berkshire started building sites in Suju Shosha In 2019, it recently reached an agreement with them to gradually overcome the maximum of 10 % in its shares. At the end of 2024, the total market value of Berkshire’s passports in companies amounted to $ 23.5 billion.

In his annual message to shareholders last month, Buffett said that “our admiration for these companies has continuously grew,” noting the high profits distributed, re -purchase of reasonable shares, and compensation for senior managers who are “less aggressive” compared to the United States.

“I expect that Greg [Abel] His successors will eventually follow this Japanese position for several decades and that Berkshire will find other ways to work in a productive manner with the five companies in the future, “in reference to his specific replacement as CEO.

While additional Japanese investments were revealed on Monday, the exact timing of transactions is unclear, although the annual message in late February is going to what happened.

The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On the contrary, Berkshire sold a net of $ 134 billion in stocks in 2024, as it ended the year with a cash pile of $ 334.2 billion – completely doubled over last year and more than 272 billion dollars volatile stocks.

Meanwhile, American stocks began to dive the nose in mid -February after president Donald Trump began to impose definitions; He has since continued to offer more. To date, it hit China, Canada, Mexico, steel and aluminum with higher duties, and mutual definitions of April 2.

The Nasdaq Stock Exchange fell in the correction area, and the S&P 500 also exceeded the correction threshold last week, but it quickly spent a decrease to less than 10 % of its peak.

This has left investors wondering whether Pavite will finally buy a large stock or link a huge group of a company after the complaint for years that the assessments were very high.

But analysts said luck Earlier, there is still a large splash that is not likely because the assessments did not decrease enough, noting that Pavite usually prefers patience.

“He has no interest at the timing of the market bottom, nor does he chase a short -term rebound,” said Armando Gonzalez, founder of the AI ​​Bigdata.com research platform. “Instead, moments wait when fear leads prices to the levels in which the risk reward equation tends decisively in favor of it.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

2025-03-17 17:51:00