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September is officially in the rearview mirror, and Meta Platforms (META +0.30%) posted a wonderful gain for its shareholders. The Magnificent Seven stock jumped 27% last month. October is ahead of us. Here’s what history says this month will bring. Image source: The Motley Fool. Meta didn’t sit on its hands. On Sept. 8, it…

Testing the discount Premier David Eby has defended the plan as opportunistic buying in a weak market. “Ultimately we’ll be buying below the cost of construction. No developers will be profiting from this,” Eby said. He said the program would not work for units in the City of Vancouver, where prices remain too high, but…

If you care where nuclear money is flowing today, it helps to separate companies that already sell lots of electricity, hardware, and fuel from those that are still living on hope and capital raises. The gap between the two groups is wide, and it matters for anyone with a clear head trying to invest in…

For the first time in over half a century, Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA -0.76%)(BRKB -0.39%) entered the year without Warren Buffett as its CEO. The Oracle of Omaha retired on Dec. 31, giving his understudy, Greg Abel, the responsibility to oversee Berkshire’s day-to-day operations and its revered $360 billion investment portfolio. Abel hasn’t been shy about…

The US housing market entered July with modest gains and sharpening fault lines. National single-family home prices rose 1.4% year over year last month, according to Cotality’s Home Price Index. However, the headline figure obscures a market splitting cleanly along regional and economic lines, with local job dynamics proving a more reliable predictor of…