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The best books of the year

19.11.09
Our reviewers name the titles that have meant the most to them over the past 12 months... more

Utilities spark into life on talk that Warren Buffett has sights on buys

12.11.09
As billionaires go, Warren Buffett is worth a bob or two. That’s probably why shares of his publicly listed vehicle Berkshire Hathaway are changing hands on Wall Street at more than $100,000 apiece ... more

Unions are livid at Tory pay freeze

08.10.09
Union leaders are furious about Tory plans to impose a pay freeze on public sector workers to help cut the UK’s Everest-style debt mountain ... more

Bail-outs Ben has hit the road to make his excuses

30.07.09
THE latest star on America’s talk show circuit is Ben Bernanke, the once-taciturn Federal Reserve chairman with the Joy of Sex beard. ... more

Buffett cuts Moody’s stake after downgrade

22.07.09
Warren Buffett has slashed his stake in Moody’s, just three months after the credit rating agency stripped the billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway group of its pristine AAA rating ... more

Buffett hands Bill Gates foundation £762m

03.07.09
Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion (£762million) in Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ... more

Buffett’s in for a buffeting

09.04.09
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Watchdog slaps a life ban on former top Buffett exec in UK

06.04.09
One of Warren Buffett's former top executives in the UK was banned for life from working in the financial services industry after a near four-year campaign by the Financial Services Authority... more

Buffett stakes cut to spark a selling wave

18.02.09
Investment: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has slashed its holdings in healthcare products maker Johnson & Johnson and consumer products giant Procter & Gamble... more

Jetting into a PR bailout disaster

29.01.09
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I'm relishing the upside to the downturn - you can too

16.12.08
Warren Buffett, America's most successful investor, is a man of clear vision. I know this because I once got hopelessly lost at Bill Gates's house looking for the loo and bumped into Mr Buffett, who pointed me in the right direction... more

Naked truth as tide goes out

25.11.08
Warren Buffett's comment about finding out who is not wearing swimming trunks when the tide goes out is extremely telling ... more

Shameless spin from banks’ sinless wonders

21.10.08
A sign of how deep the levels of denial still run in the banking industry came in phone calls last week from people who are, er, influential in the sector... more

Buffett’s paper profits shredded

08.10.08
Finance: Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has seen the instant paper profits he made on General Electric and Goldman Sachs shredded as the market continues to slide... more

Point the finger at Hank not Bill… if you must

07.10.08
It would be harsh and largely ridiculous to blame one man for the unfolding financial crisis, but if you feel in unforgiving mood Hank Paulson will do... more

Commentary: Brown's dilemma ... to bail or not to bail

06.10.08
Gordon Brown is engaged in a dizzying high-wire act. He's weighing up whether to guarantee all UK bank deposits as a slew of other governments have done or he could take shares in the banks in the hope recapitalisation will provide the boost banks need... more

Goldman chiefs must keep 90 per cent of their shares

03.10.08
Goldman Sachs' top four executives will have to hold on to 90% of the shares they own in the firm as part of the deal to raise money from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway... more

Everyone is guilty: end the conspiracy of greed

29.09.08
Two banks nationalised, one bust, others taken over, ­thousands of jobs likely to be lost, the FTSE 100 through the floor, the effects likely to spill over into the rest of the economy — and still I'm not sure if we really get it... more

A question of ethics in the City

26.09.08
People sometimes ask whether the City today is a more honest place than it was 20 years ago. The answer is probably no, but the nature of the lapses has changed... more

Billionaire Buffett and the only banker he trusts

25.09.08
One is America’s richest man who still lives in the house he bought for $31,000 in 1958. The other is an investment chief who started selling clothes as a teenager. Here, we tell the story of the deal they’ve done to safeguard Goldman Sachs... more

Here’s the way to start solving the credit crisis

25.09.08
He really can't resist it, can he? You might think that after more than a decade of introducing economically trivial, crowd pleasing measures as Chancellor, Gordon Brown could kick the habit as Prime Minister... more

Goldman doubling its cash call from holders to £2.7bn

24.09.08
Banking: Goldman Sachs has doubled the amount of funds it raised from major shareholders to $5 billion (£2.7 billion)... more

Golfing joyride for Murdoch tome’s author

01.09.08
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£3.5 million Bloomsbury puts faith in Buffett

29.08.08
Bloomsbury reckons a new biography of Warren Buffett will help it thrive in a post-Harry Potter world... more

Warren's shares take Buffetting

02.07.08
Shares in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway have fallen almost 20% so far this year. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 15% in the same period... more

Mapping out best bets in Europe as Buffett hits a new investments trail

19.05.08
While Britain will be lucky to see growth of 1.5% this year, data from the European Commission's Eurostat suggests the eurozone is buzzing at about 2.2%... more

Hard times spur urge to merge

06.05.08
Merger and acquisition activity doesn't cease when the econony turns down - it just changes... more

Buffett brokers Mars’s $23bn Wrigley takeover

28.04.08
Warren Buffett puts together a dream sweetshop, orchestrating a $23bn takeover by Mars of the chewing gum giant Wrigley... more

Buffett looks to buy in Europe

23.04.08
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is heading to Europe next month with an eye to picking up one of the Continent's dynastic family companies... more

Stand by for a plunge in house prices as global picture changes

18.02.08
Whether or not the nationalisation of Northern Rock turns out to be a good idea or a financial disaster hinges very much on what is going to happen to house prices. If they plunge and the bank's bad debts soar, the losses will be huge. If stability returns, the current slowdown will not matter too much because Rock will be able to trade its way through, although it will have to shrink a bit... more

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