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By Katherine Chiglinsky

April 23, 2020 at 9:00 AM UTC

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Even as market watchers await Warren Buffett’s splashy move to seize on fallout from the current crisis, his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. hasn’t been spared by the pandemic.