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What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Here's our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the Bank Holiday weekend ...

Buffett fizzes in defence of Cherry Coke One of the most eagerly anticipated events in the financial calendar, the AGM of Warren Buffett's investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway, took place over the weekend and, while it is perhaps not surprising the most successful investor of the modern age should be challenged over his 9% stake in Coca Cola, it does feel like a sign of our times that the FT chose to lead its coverage of the meeting on that point. For what it is worth, the 85-year-old ‘Sage of Omaha' offered a robust defence of both the holding and his own personal consumption of Cher...

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