Buffett's $800bn monoline lifeline boosts global stockmarkets
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Business & money: Investor Warren Buffett outlines $800bn plan to help insurers hit by sub-prime debacle
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Billionaire Warren Buffett redecorated his portfolio with 8 million shares of Pier 1 Imports Inc., sending the home decorating chain&#39;s stock higher by some 12 percent in trading on Tuesday.
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The FTSE 100 has climbed as a surge by US shares gives a boost to European markets. Shire Pharmaceuticals SHP.L jumped after winning approval for a key drug and consumer goods giant Unilever ULVR.
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NEW YORK -- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Tuesday he has offered to help out troubled bond insurers by offering a second level of insurance on up to $800 billion in municipal bonds.
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Shares in Merrill Lynch jump after a report that a foreign investor may pump $5bn into the bank.
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World stocks hit a lifetime peak on Monday as a fresh bout of corporate takeover activity helped ease concerns about oil prices which approached record highs.
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The winning bid to break bread with billionaire Warren Buffett came in at $650,100, which is $30,000 more than the top bid at last year's charity auction.
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The share price of Standard Life has risen following flotation of its stock on the British stock market.
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It's almost Labor Day, the end of vacation season. But before fall sets in, I'd like to revisit one of this summer's biggest financial stories: Warren Buffett's decision to donate $38 billion of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to charity, most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Growth is an excellent catalyst for stock price appreciation.
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Strong global stocks and bonds markets have fueled rapid growth in the $11.1 trillion U.S. mutual fund industry, despite the wobble in emerging markets and concerns about overheated Chinese markets in the past year.
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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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Warren Buffett is investing abroad. Should you?
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The S&P 500 index, a measure of the  largest U.S. stocks, rose to a lifetime high on Friday on  optimism about economic growth, corporate takeovers and  profits.
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POSCO Co. Ltd. (005490.KS) surged as much  as 3.8 percent on Friday after U.S. investor Warren Buffett's  firm Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said it owned a 4 percent stake in  the South Korean steel maker as of the end of 2006.
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.  has increased its stake in USG Corp.  to 19 percent, lifting the building products company's stock nearly 3 percent after the bell closed on Friday.
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NEW YORK It's the money tree that keeps on giving. Despite warnings about the lack of transparency, corruption scandals and companies with shaky financials, the Chinese stock market has leaped 300 percent in the past two years. No other major market in the world has rewarded investors as generous...