{"id":178474,"date":"2023-12-17T00:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/warren-buffett-dumped-his-850-million-stake-in-mary-barras-general-motors-and-cut-back-on-amazon"},"modified":"2023-12-17T00:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:23:41","slug":"warren-buffett-dumped-his-850-million-stake-in-mary-barras-general-motors-and-cut-back-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/warren-buffett-dumped-his-850-million-stake-in-mary-barras-general-motors-and-cut-back-on-amazon","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett dumped his $850 million stake in Mary Barra\u2019s General Motors and cut back on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warren-buffett-dumped-his-850-million-stake-in-mary-barras-general-motors-and-cut-back-on-amazon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/berkshire-hathaway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">Berkshire Hathaway<\/a> said on Tuesday it has shed its holdings in <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/general-motors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">General Motors<\/a> and Procter &amp; Gamble, and trimmed its stake in <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/amazon-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">Amazon<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/.com\">.com<\/a>, as the conglomerate controlled by <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/11\/09\/warren-buffett-secret-stock-sales-tax-records-propublica-wells-fargo\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">billionaire Warren Buffett<\/a> boosted its cash pile to a <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/11\/04\/warren-buffett-sees-few-deals-berkshire-hathaway-cash-pile-hits-record-high\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">record $157.2 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a regulatory filing detailing its U.S.-listed stock holdings as of Sept. 30, Berkshire reported no holdings in GM and P&amp;G, after reporting stakes of $848 million and $48 million in June, and said it reduced its stake in Amazon by 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Berkshire also appeared to have shed what had been a $621 million stake in <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/company\/celanese\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" class=\"\">Celanese<\/a>, a specialty materials company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway said on Tuesday it has shed its holdings in General Motors and Procter &amp; Gamble, and trimmed its stake in Amazon.com, as the conglomerate controlled by billionaire Warren Buffett boosted its cash pile to a record $157.2 billion. In a regulatory filing detailing its U.S.-listed stock holdings as of Sept. 30, Berkshire reported [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}