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The week's almost over, but before you start kicking back, there's plenty of hot trades out there to close out a busy week.
On Monday, there was a lot to talk about the Berkshire Hathaway(BRK.A Quote) investor meeting that was finishing up in Omaha. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates (Berkshire Hathaway board member) were available and spent some time with a FOX Business colleague of mine.
The most interesting takeaway (for me) from the interview conducted by my good friend Liz Claman was Gates' reaction to Microsoft's(MSFT Quote) decision to walk from the Yahoo!(YHOO Quote) offer. I think we realized that Steve Ballmer is in complete control of the Microsoft steering wheel. Gates seemed more interested in telling us what a great investor, philanthropist, guy Warren is. (Uh.. Bill, we knew that.) ...
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