Berkshire to Take a Stake in Swiss Re
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Swiss Re clinched a deal with Warren Buffettâs Berkshire Hathaway, bolstering its beaten-down shares, but raising concerns the reinsurer was giving a rival too much access to its core business.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the holding company run by billionaire Warren Buffett, on Thursday said its General Re insurance unit received a request from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to provide information on some insurance products.
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A U.S. judge has ordered the General Re Corp reinsurance unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc  to produce internal investigation records in a criminal trial of its former chief executive next month.
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HARTFORD, Connecticut  - A transaction at a reinsurance unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc that federal prosecutors say defrauded American International Group Inc  investors was endorsed by Warren Buffett, a lawyer for one of five defendants on trial for fraud said on Monday.
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ZURICH : Swiss reinsurance group Swiss Re said it had nearly doubled its net profit in the first half of the year thanks to a better-than-expected investment result.
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Credit Suisse will seek to launch a  share buyback plan worth up to 6 billion Swiss francs ($5  billion), it said on Thursday, after reporting a better than  expected 22 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profits.
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NEW YORK/AMSTERDAM  - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc , in its second acquisition this week, agreed to buy the NRG NV reinsurance unit of ING Group NV  for about 300 million euros ($441 million).
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LONDON (Dow Jones)--Goldman Sachs (GS) and private equity company Carlyle Group are considering a GBP1.6 billion-plus counter offer to halt the sale of Northern Ireland pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott (WCRX, WCRX.
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Positioning itself to buy or sell other regional exchanges, the Boston Stock Exchange yesterday said it plans to switch from a member-owned structure to a shareholder-owned company.
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What Berkshire is buying in today's harrowing market.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the company controlled by billionaire Warren Buffett, said its General Re Corp. unit received a request from regulators for information on insurance policies designed to help mitigate losses.
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Shares in British insurer Resolution  climbed more than 3 percent in early trade on Monday on hopes of a 5 billion pound ($10.2 billion) bid from rival Standard Life , backed by Swiss Re .
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Credit Suisse Group announced that it would integrate its Credit Suisse First Boston investment banking arm into the parent company over the next two years.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc , the conglomerate headed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, said on Tuesday it planned to buy 60 percent of manufacturing and services group Marmon Holdings Inc. for $4.5 billion.
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Warren E. Buffettâs holding copmany Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed to expand its new bond insurer nationwide in exchange for faster licensing.
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs  has  made a bid approach of about 700 million pounds ($1.4 billion)  for reinsurance broker Benfield , the Daily Telegraph  said on Friday.
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Switzerland's top telecommunications operator Swisscom said it was interested in a majority stake in the Czech Republic's Cesky Telecom, which is due to be privatised.