Dow Jones Top Financial Services Headlines at 12 AM ET: Berkshire Hathaway to Buy Home Builder Taylor Morrison for $6.8 Billion | Apollo ...

Dow Jones Top Financial Services Headlines at 12 AM ET: Berkshire Hathaway to Buy Home Builder Taylor…

Berkshire Hathaway ($6.8B deal for Taylor Morrison) and Apollo ($2B minority stake in Apex at $10B valuation) headline a M&A wave in real assets, while VC pivots toward hardware and "physical AI" infrastructure bets. For tech and finance leaders: capital is rotating from pure-software plays to physical-layer and asset-heavy models, signaling tighter conditions for SaaS multiples and renewed appetite for infrastructure and AI-adjacent hardware in 2026.