{"id":79869,"date":"2021-11-08T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T05:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=79869"},"modified":"2021-11-07T22:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:36:32","slug":"berkshires-operating-earnings-pop-18-last-quarter-with-buffetts-cash-pile-at-record-149-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2021\/berkshires-operating-earnings-pop-18-last-quarter-with-buffetts-cash-pile-at-record-149-billion.html","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire\u2019s operating earnings pop 18% last quarter with Buffett\u2019s cash pile at record $149 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BRK.A\" target=\"_blank\">Berkshire Hathaway<\/a> saw another double-digit increase in its operating profit thanks to a continuous rebound in it railroad, utilities and energy businesses from the pandemic, while the company\u2019s cash pile hit a record high as Warren Buffett continued to sit on the sidelines. The conglomerate reported operating income of <strong>$6.47 billion<\/strong> in the third quarter, rising 18% from $5.48 billion in the same quarter a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/06\/berkshire-hathaway-brk-earnings-q3-2021.html\">To read this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Berkshire Hathaway saw another double-digit increase in its operating profit thanks to a continuous rebound in it railroad, utilities and energy businesses from the pandemic, while the company\u2019s cash pile hit a record high as Warren Buffett continued to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79870,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79869\/revisions\/79870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}