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While it has been superficially covered by much of the press - and one can make the argument that what Julian Assange has revealed is more relevant to the US population, than constant and so far unconfirmed speculation that Trump is a puppet of Putin - the fallout from the Wikileaks' "Vault 7" release this morning of thousands of documents demonstrating the extent to which the CIA uses backdoors to hack smartphones, computer operating systems, messenger applications and internet-connected televisions, will be profound.

Sometimes the truth is hard to hear, like "Trump wins" and "Obamacare is failing." It appears, as a pleasant change, Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz dropped an uncomfortable truth bomb on the American people this morning - so used to getting everything they want (as a right) and never having to 'pay' for it - when he told CNN's "New Day" this morning that:

Wikileaks has released details of the wide-ranging hacking tools used by the CIA. 8,761 documents have been published as part of ‘Year Zero’, the first part in a series of leaks on the agency which has been dubbed ‘Vault 7.’ The whistleblowing organization claim that this is the largest ever batch of confidential documents on the CIA and that they reveal the breadth of the agency’s ability to hack smartphones and social media messaging apps such as  WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.

WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the largest ever release of confidential documents on the CIA. It includes more than 8,000 documents as part of ‘Vault 7’, a series of leaks on the agency, which have allegedly emerged from the CIA's Center For Cyber Intelligence in Langley, and which can be seen on the org chart below, which Wikileaks also released:

Traders, analysts and Buffett-watchers were amazed two weeks ago when in its 13F filing, Berkshire Hathaway reported that it had nearly quadrupled its Apple stake from 15.2 million shares as of Sept 30 to 57.4 million shares on December, making it a Top 10 holder in the tech company. Then, moments ago, the surprises continued when speaking to CNBC's Becky Quick, the Berkshire Hathaway Chairman said that he more than doubled his holdings in Apple yet again between the start of 2017 and the tech company's most recent earnings report.