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Berkshire Hathaway shares fell roughly 1% this week while the S&P 500

edged 0.6% higher, ending the week at a fresh all-time high.

That has increased the B shares’ relative underperformance versus the benchmark to 11.3 percentage points for the year so far. It was a 9.7 percentage point gap last Friday.