It’s fair to say that the third quarter hasn’t been a good time for those holding shares in Associated British Foods.

Here are two stocks we know the Oracle of Omaha has bought recently.

China’s biggest e-commerce player sets its sights on international markets.

ROTTERDAM: Palm oil on the European vegetable oils market was little changed on Friday due to lack of direction from the Malaysian palm oil futures market, which was closed for a public holiday.

As U.S. tax cuts prompt Apple Inc. and other tech companies to bring home their overseas cash hoards, it’s leaving a void in the market for short-term corporate bonds, where those firms had invested much of the money. That’s now making it more expensive for other companies to borrow.

Buying real estate is a big decision, but whether it’s better than investing in the stock market is a question that investors shouldn’t be overlooking.
Home prices have increased over the years, but so too have stock prices. There are different pros and cons to each option, and there are many factors to consider, which I’ll examine in a bit more detail below.

One of the world’s biggest indexers is adding more mainland China stocks to its offerings on Friday.
This comes as trade tensions rock Chinese markets and should give them a boost from foreign investors.
MSCI is slowly increasing the number and weighting of China stocks in its indexes to avoid roiling markets.

Salesforce gives weaker-than-expected outlook

U.S. stocks fell slightly on Thursday, in what represented a fractional retreat after a multiday rally that took indexes to repeated records.

Palladium logs 3rd gain in 4 sessions

Gold fell Wednesday, pressured after a small upward revision to second-quarter U.S. gross domestic product data, as a leading dollar index stabilized near a one-month low, helping to send prices for the metal down a second straight session.

Labor Day means shopping, not Wall Street trading.

Labor Day in the U.S. is Sept. 3, and although financial markets will observe regular hours on Friday to wrap up trading in August, most trading platforms will be shuttered Monday.