Buffett offers to reinsure $800 billion in muni bonds
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Warren Buffett said on Tuesday he has made a pitch to the three largest bond insurers to reinsure $800 billion in municipal bonds, but had been rebuffed by one of the companies, while the other two have not yet responded.
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is set to launch a bond insurer targeting local governments, seeking to profit from troubled credit markets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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What would Buffett do if he had a portfolio the size of yours?
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc is starting a bond insurer to help state and local governments lower their borrowing costs, directly challenging established rivals that are struggling with deteriorating credit markets, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday.
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The McDonaldÂs Corporation said that hedge fund investor William A. Ackman planned to buy more than $793.8 million worth of shares.
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Investors poured back into equities on Thursday, hoping a rescue plan for ailing bond issuers would stop a new round of credit losses, although claims of a massive trade fraud added to financial sector worries.
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The online game operator Giant Interactive Group said that it would buy back up to $200 million worth of American depositary shares. The company plans to fund the repurchases from available working capital, it said in a statement.
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The operator of the rail link between France and Britain, said that it had received offers to finance its proposed financial restructuring.
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Ask Warren Buffett about the importance of low long-term combined ratios.
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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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Closed-end mutual funds can supplement your dividend fix.
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Lone Star Funds will recoup almost a third of its original investment in a move that drew divided reaction.
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What's one thing most of Buffett's investments have in common?
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Warren E. Buffett sold about 1.1 billion Hong Kong dollars worth ($141 million) of shares in the PetroChina Company.
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett  offers a deal to three bond insurers hit by the sub-prime crisis.
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At 77, Warren E. Buffett, the countryâs most famous investor, is in the midst of his hottest streak in almost a decade. And he is capping his run with a flurry of deal-making.
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The woes in the U.S. financial sector  are "poetic justice" for bankers who designed and sold complex  investments that have since gone sour, billionaire investor  Warren Buffett said on Wednesday.