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Billionaire Warren Buffett gives new hint about his successor

Warren Buffett arriving at the 2019 annual shareholders meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 4, 2019. [AFP]

Billionaire Warren Buffett on Saturday gave a clue on who might succeed him to run his Berkshire Hathaway empire, but did not completely reveal his hand.

The world's third-richest man also said at his company's annual shareholder meeting that its recent investment in Amazon was not a shift in strategy to focus on Silicon Valley firms, which have largely remained missing from Berkshire's voluminous portfolio.

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