https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/warren- ... bling.html
Published Wed, Jul 15 2026 8:50 AM EDT
Sarah Min
Warren Buffett was critical of a stock market that he said is increasingly driven by speculative trading, as opposed to investing for the long term.
“It’s tough to find values when everybody is preferring gambling,” Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick.
The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway had sharp words on the stock market earlier this year. In May, he likened the stock market to “a church with a casino attached,” specifically calling out the surge in one-day options trading as “gambling.”