NEW YORK — Wall Street finished mostly higher Tuesday after billionaire investor Warren Buffett offered to help out troubled bond insurers, easi...
Reuters | Wojtek Dabrowski | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The woes in the U.S. financial sector are "poetic justice" for bankers who designed and sold complex investments that have since gone sour, billionair...
BusinessWeek | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Warren Buffett has made his reputation as the World's Greatest Investor by taking the longer view--buying quality stocks with good earnings power and ...
CNBC | Alex Crippen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Just weeks after closing at an all-time high in mid-December, shares of Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway are falling deeper into 'c...
CNBC | Alex Crippen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
"Don't count out Warren Buffett." That's how I began my post one week ago as I launched our '2007: The Year in Warren' countdown, going from #10 to ...
AP | Stephen Bernard | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Town governments, school districts and other municipalities looking to borrow money got a new option Friday when trying to insure their bonds: billion...
AP | Stephen Bernard | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Insurer ING Group said Friday it will sell its reinsurance unit, NRG N.V., to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Group for about $435.7 million. The...
New York Times | VIKAS BAJAJ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Berkshire Hathaway, the firm controlled by Warren E. Buffett, said Tuesday that it would pay $4.5 billion for a controlling stake in Marmon Holdings, ...
Motley Fool | Richard Gibbons | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
This is one ugly market. That ugliness shows up in the averages, with the Dow down 4% since mid-October, but it's much worse in individual stocks. St...
CNBC | Alex Crippen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Berkshire Hathaway shares fell as much as 5 percent today to $134,050 each, after a cover story in Barron's over the weekend recommended, "Sell Buffet...
Fortune | Jon Birger and Katie Benner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
We'll say this for the U.S. economy: It can take a punch. Consider the blows it has absorbed just this year. The worst real estate crash since the Gr...
CNBC | Charlie Gasparino | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, slated to be called as a prosecution witness in the criminal fraud trial against five executives for allegedly he...
CNbC | Anna Jo Bratton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has bought nearly 14 million shares of Carmax Inc., the nation's largest specialty used-car retai...
Macleans | Kenneth Whyte | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Nebraska's Warren Buffett is known as the Oracle of Omaha for the savvy stock market investments that have made him one the wealthiest people in the w...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business