Berkshire Hathaway Climbs, But Dow Slips Because Even Warren Buffett Can not Lift The Market By Itself

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(9983.Japan), owner of the Uniqlo brand, helped to send Asian stocks lower. European stocks are modestly higher, but US markets seem to have pulled off the positive queue. Futures at Dow Jones Industrial Average were down at 0.4%, Nasdaq Composite futures were 0.3% lower and the S & P 500 futures were close to the break-even line. In today's Morning Movers, we …

• … Investigate Revenue Again,
• … Check In On Upcoming Events;
• … and weigh in midway.

Barron Briefs [19659009] Buffett delivers: In other earnings news,
Berkshire Hathaway

(BRK.B) reported results over the weekend. Do not forget that they have more industrial revenue than
Honeywell

(HON) and more rail revenues than
Union Pacific

(UNP). Margins in business decreased year after year when higher costs for raw materials and logistics affected the results. It is consistent with which other manufacturing companies have reported this quarter.

See Dealers: About 25% of S & P 500 companies have not yet reported revenue. Resellers are the group with the biggest percentage left to go to the lecturer. In terms of earnings growth and hit bottom line estimates, the third quarter has been as good as the second quarter. This is probably part of the reason why S & P resumed last week and closed 2.4%.

Conference Caucasus: As the earnings season breaks up, the conference season begins. Management Team meets with investors who will pump companies for information about 2019. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, R.W. Baird and Stifel all host conferences this week. Also, DowDuPont (DWDP) will host investor days to provide further details about the three separate companies it will be next year.

And Breaking News! The election, which will probably dominate the news drinks this week, is Tuesday. The House of Representatives is the focus. RealClearPolitics says 202 households are safe in the democratic camp, 196 is safe in the Republican camp and 37 seats are closely discussed. It takes 218 to have a majority in the house. In the Senate, these conditions are on RealClearPolitics 44 Democratic seats, 50 Republican seats with 6 tossups in the Senate. Check in with Barron on Wednesday to learn how the outcome will affect the markets.

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Morning Movers

Apple

(AAPL) is down 1.5% to $ 204.30 on reports that it suspends a production increase for iPhone XR.

Berkshire Hathaway is up 2.8% to $ 212.30 after reporting from the third quarter. Warren Buffett holding company said operating profit was $ 6.88 billion, up from $ 3.44 billion last year.

Diamond Offshore

(DO) is up 3.5% to $ 14.70 after reporting third quarter earnings. Oilfield service providers lost 26 cents per share on sales of $ 286 million. Analysts were looking for a loss of 35 cents on revenue of $ 281.74 million.

General Electric

(GE) is up 1.1% to $ 9.40 after CEO Larry Culp revealed the acquisition of 225,000 shares in the company's share.

Spotify Technology

(SPOT) is up 2.2% to $ 142 after approval of a new $ 1 billion share purchase program.

-Teresa Rivas

Write to Al Root at all.root@dowjones.com