Crowd shrinks as Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO leads the annual meeting for the first time Saturday

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The folksy wisdom and jokes that were a staple of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting for decades when Warren Buffett was leading the show will be missing Saturday, but shareholders still started lining up at midnight outside a Nebraska arena to listen to new CEO Greg Abel. Attendance is down significantly this year with the arena only about half full just before the meeting started. That’s much different than the past few years when more than 40,000 attended to listen to th