BUZZ-F1 owner Liberty Media slips on stock offering to fund MotoGP buy ** Liberty Media's F1 tracking stock FWONK.O down 2.5% at $77.82 on Weds after equity raise to fund takeover of MotoGP ** Co early Weds announced pricing offering of 10.65 mln shares of Series C Liberty Formula One common stock at $77.50 for $825.4 mln gross raise with Goldman Sachs as sole underwriter ** Offering price represents 2.9% discount to FWONK close of $79.83 on Tues ** Liberty Media to use net offering proceeds to

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BUZZ-SiriusXM jumps as Berkshire builds stake ** Shares of SiriusXM SIRI.O up 14.1% at $3.32 premarket ** Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway BRKa.N raised its stake in the satellite radio company in Q2 ** Berkshire was the second largest investor in SIRI with 3.5% stake worth about $132 mln as of June 30 - LSEG data ** The largest investor, Liberty Media, controlled 83.3% of SIRI's outstanding shares as of June 16 ** SIRI was among Berkshire's few purchases in a quarter marked by a hasty retrea

FACTBOX-Layoffs pile up in US, Canada as companies uncertain of economy Adds Cisco Systems Aug 14 (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadi an companies have continued to cut jobs in 2024 after letting go thousands last year, a s they remain uncertain about t he econom i c conditions . Here is a snapshot of job cuts announced so far this year: TECHNOLOGY * Cisco Systems CSCO.O will lay off 7% of its global workforce , as part of a restructuring plan, the networking giant said, about six months after announcin