Apple, which closed Wednesday with a market cap of $4.002 trillion, gained 0.6% ahead of the release of the iPhone maker’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the closing bell Thursday, while Amazon.com fell 3.2% with the world’s largest online retailer scheduled to report third-quarter numbers.

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U.S. stocks were rising Friday afternoon, as shares of Amazon surged following its quarterly earnings results. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq were on pace to wrap up October with monthly gains despite the government shutdown.

According to Berkshire Hathaway's most recently submitted Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Berkshire owns stakes in nearly 40 U.S.-listed public companies. The company also holds significant investments in international stocks, particularly Japanese stocks.

The U.S. stock market sank from record heights as Wall Street sifted through mixed developments on everything from the U.S.

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The current quarterly dividend is $0.51, with a yield of around 2.9% at the time of this writing. Its average yield over the past decade has been just over 3%. When it raised its dividend earlier this year, it was the 63rd consecutive year it had done so.

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Buffett is a fan of value stocks and dividend stocks, and he loves consumer goods. In fact, the two artificial intelligence (AI) stocks he does own -- Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) -- are both consumer goods giants, and AI can drive further growth for both of them.

The market is entirely too complacent about downside risks,” says one observer. The troubles go beyond a few rough earnings reports.