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(Com agências internacionais) – Warren Buffett is confident in the recovery of the American economy from crises caused by coronavirus hair. “Basically, nothing can stop the United States”, disse or bilionário investor, during the annual shareholders meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, held this Saturday (2), by videoconference and broadcast to the world.
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“O American miracle, to American magic, will always prevail in the de novo fara”, defended Buffett before starting a long historical review of the past vicissitudes of the country and how its economy resurfaced each time.
In his speech, Buffett emphasized that the coronavirus represents a difficult situation to endorse, with the economic impact that can still oscillate due to paralisation of activity, something that does not fear
parallels in the history that represents a very different moment from the 2008 crisis.
In any way, he insisted that a situation that could be extracted from previous difficulties, from the American Civil War to the Great Depression and other events, had to be expressed that “you should never bet against the United States.”
“This is still true now,” said Buffett, whose company announced some hours before the loss of US $ 50 million in the first quarter of the year, with its hard-hitting investments due to a pandemic that caused our markets. The numbers contrasted with the liquid profit of US $ 21.6 million that the company registered in the same period of the previous year.
Buffett sells his airline companies
In a virtual meeting, Buffett revealed that Berkshire sold US $ 6.5 bilhões em ações not more than April. Neste pacote is all involved in four major airlines in the United States: United, American, Delta and Southwest.
“When we sell something, we sell all,” he justified. “Either by air fear or problem that you were denied 70% or 80%, or airplane does not disappear. Or a changed world for airlines, ”he justified.
Another setor to be strongly shaved by the pandemic, in Buffett’s vision, or for sure. Or investor, who fears a surety, to Geico, not his imperium, envisions innumerable judicial disputes between individuals and companions for the cause of coronaviruses.
“A number of lawsuits that will be settled … and huge,” he said.