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Warren Buffett’s Folksy Letter Is Now Greg Abel’s to Reinvent

Berkshire Hathaway shareholders will be looking for clues about the new CEO’s plans. 

Warren Buffett.

Photographer: Houston Cofield/Bloomberg

Berkshire Hathaway hits a milestone this weekend as it releases its first annual letter written by someone other than Warren Buffett. Alexandre Rajbhandari, who covers the company for Bloomberg News, writes about what to look for. Plus: Why gold above $5,000 an ounce looks like the new normal, and Europe’s biotech companies are enlisting minipigs for drug testing. And there’s a new episode of the Everybody’s Business podcast.

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