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Not a good sign: Warren Buffet does away with bank shares, bets on gold

Buffett, the fifth-richest person in the world, has loved few things more in his life than sweets, soda and compound interest - but banking stocks have come pretty close

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Warren Buffett | Photo: Bloomberg

Tara Lachapelle | Bloomberg
Dumping bank shares and investing in a gold miner? It certainly doesn’t sound like a Warren Buffett move, but that’s exactly what the investing guru’s company did in the second quarter, according to a regulatory disclosure Friday. It’s not a good sign for markets. 
 
Buffett, the fifth-richest person in the world, has loved few things more in his life than sweets, soda and compound interest — but banking stocks have come pretty close. Buffett was there to boost them during and after the last crisis, and he’s remained a top shareholder in most of the big U.S. banks. That’s why