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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

Banks and miners punished as investors head for exits

03.11.09
Leading shares were struggling to hold above the 5000 level today, as investors headed for the exits... more

Sterling dips amid fears of slower global recovery

19.08.09
Sterling resumed its downward path amid warnings that although the global economy is on the mend the turnaround will be slow and painful ... more

Kaupthing’s loan book is tale of woe

10.08.09
The leaked loan book of collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing reads like a who’s who of some of the credit crunch’s biggest losers ... 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

1000 jobs face axe in Swiss Re cutbacks

02.04.09
Swiss Re, the second largest reinsurer in the world and occupier of the Gherkin building in the City of London, today said it will cut its workforce by more than 1000 people this year... 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

Buffett rides to the rescue at Swiss Re

05.02.09
Finance: Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, launched a £1.7 billion rescue of one of the world's biggest reinsurance firms, Swiss Re... more

RBS pulls plug on £7bn insurance arm sell-off

05.02.09
Royal Bank of Scotland dramatically scrapped the sale of its insurance division, which includes Direct Line and Churchill and had originally been expected to raise the bank up to £7 billion in badly needed capital... 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

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

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

Roche shows mega-deal alive with Genentech bid

21.07.08
Swiss drugmaker Roche has offered to buy out its US partner Genentech in a deal worth £21.9m... more

GE and Dow mega-deal plans fire up the action

10.07.08
General Electric and Dow Chemical have declared plans for multibillion-dollar deals that defy the credit crunch... 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

Anheuser 'to shun bid and get back to basics'

26.06.08
Insiders say Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch plans to reject InBev's unwelcome £23.5 billion takeover bid as too low... more

How America's industrial aristocracy is losing its grip

13.06.08
Priceless and ireeplaceable personnel assets will vanish with InBev brewers merger... more

Bud brewer reluctant to quench Belgians' thirst for expansion

02.06.08
ANALYSIS James Doran considers the implications of InBev's plans to make a £23bn bid for Anheuser Busch... more

Bid queue for RBS insurance auction

28.05.08
Royal Bank of Scotland to receive the first formal bids for its £7.5 billion insurance business, which includes Direct Line and Churchill... 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

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