Berkshire to get license for bond insurance unit
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc  has won expedited licensing for a new bond insurance unit, New York State Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo said on Friday.
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Warren Buffett's new bond insurer may  expand to Rhode Island after hearing that the state's treasurer  wanted it to apply for a license to operate in the state,  according to a Buffett spokeswoman.
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The board of British insurer Resolution  has backed a cash-and-shares takeover bid from rival Standard Life , sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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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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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 Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said the US Securities and Exchange Commission requested information on insurance policies that may help companies smooth earnings.
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Bond insurers may be split into two businesses -- one to guarantee municipal bonds and the other to back riskier securities linked to troubled mortgages -- in what would be the biggest overhaul of the industry since it was created almost four decades ago.
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A U.S. judge has ordered the General  Re Corp reinsurance unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway  Inc (BRKa.N) to produce internal investigation records in a  criminal trial of its former chief executive next month.
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Learn the basic concept that helped launch Berkshire Hathaway.
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US financial regulators have requested information from Warren Buffett&#39;s Berkshire Hathaway group as part of a probe into certain insurance products.
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Investors may snap up a planned $1 billion debt sale by a unit of MBIA Inc , after the beleaguered bond insurer was forced to ramp up the deal's yield to about 14 percent to attract greater interest, according to investors familiar with the deal on Friday.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico  - Warren Buffett's new bond insurer has applied for an insurance license in Puerto Rico and was registering to do business in the commonwealth, the president of the Government Development Bank, said on Monday.
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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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Warren Buffett&#39;s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said the US Securities and Exchange Commission requested information on insurance policies that may help companies smooth earnings.
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Warren Buffett plans to start a bonding agency for local and state governments.
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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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Buffett said his Berkshire Hathaway holding company made the offer of reinsurance on up to $800 billion in municipal bonds to Ambac, MBIA and FGIC.