Bank of America

Berkshire Hathaway recently added 20.4 million shares of Apple, which now makes up about half its equity holdings. More recent moves suggest Warren Buffett may now be returning to his historical focus on value, via old-school energy investments.

In Bank of America’s July global fund manager survey, several measures show money managers pointing toward further doom and gloom. So much so that the historically bearish sentiment hints at a potential rally to the upside should market conditions only marginally improve.

It’s enough to make one feel old – old enough to remember when Foster’s Group spun off its wine business, in the form of Treasury Wine Estates, in May 2011, only four months before Foster’s itself disappeared from the Australian share market, taken over by Anglo-South African brewer SABMiller, which became AB InBev in 2016….