Berkshire Unit Starts $3.75 Bln Debt Sale
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Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corp., a  unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRKa.N, on  Tuesday launched a $3.75 billion debt sale, $750 million more  than originally planned, a market source said.
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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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Palm Inc.  said it will sell a 25  percent stake to private equity firm Elevation Partners for  $325 million, and use the proceeds along with the cash on hand  and new debt to pay $9 in cash to stockholders.
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British Airways Plc. plans to sell its  A$1.12 billion ($773 million) stake in Australia's Qantas  Airways Ltd. in the next two days to cut debt and take  advantage of future consolidation in Europe.
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The bank raised its benchmark interest rate to 3.75 percent, and made clear that it was willing to tighten credit further.
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Museum Towers, a six-year-old luxury high-rise apartment complex overlooking the Charles River in East Cambridge, sold this week for what is believed to be a record per-unit price in Greater Boston, and will be converted to condominiums ranging from $350,000 to $750,000.
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Warren Buffettâs Berkshire Hathaway snapped up a 60 percent stake in Marmon Holdings, the Pritzker familyâs  sprawling industrial conglomerate.
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Qantas said Thursday that British Airways has sold its 18.25 percent stake in the Australian carrier at 3.28 Australian dollars (US$2.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20  Â The Charles Schwab Corporation, the discount broker, said on Monday that it was selling U.S. Trust, the wealth-management specialist, to the Bank of America Corporation for $3.3 billion in cash.
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Northern Rock, one of Britainâs biggest casualties of the credit crisis, sold part of its mortgage portfolio to JPMorgan as it seeks to repay about Â£25 billion, or $49 billion, in emergency financing.
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Wall Street opened higher on Tuesday after Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, offered to take over $800bn in municipal bonds currently insured by bond insurers Ambac, MBIA (NYSE:MBI) and FGIC.
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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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Home Depot  is expected to sell $5 billion in a three-part debt sale this week, according to a market source familiar with the sale.
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, one of the kings of the buyout world, filed for a $1.25 billion initial public offering yesterday, following the precedent set two weeks ago by its long-standing rival, Blackstone Group.
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Warren Buffettâs Berkshire Hathaway snapped up a 60 percent stake in Marmon Holdings, the Pritzker familyâs sprawling industrial conglomerate.
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The bond firm plans to tackle riskier investments.
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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.