Good evening, this is Markets Desk with your end-of-day briefing.
Greg Abel passed his first real test as Warren Buffett's successor at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in Omaha, drawing broadly positive reviews from longtime shareholders and institutional investors alike. The consensus was that Abel struck the right tone — measured, prepared, and clearly in command — even as the shadow of Buffett's absence loomed large over the weekend gathering.
Shifting to the credit markets, global banks are quietly engineering a way out of a growing problem. Lenders are exploring private risk-transfer deals to reduce their exposure to data center debt tied to the AI buildout. The concern is straightforward — too much concentrated lending to a single sector risks choking balance sheets if valuations or demand projections disappoint, and regulators are watching closely.
And on the cultural side of the ledger, The Devil Wears Prada two opened with seventy-seven million dollars across North America, blowing past the original film's two thousand six debut weekend by a wide margin. That kind of opening puts it on pace to surpass the original's entire theatrical run in short order, and it signals that audience appetite for legacy intellectual property with genuine star power remains exceptionally strong.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
