Buffett starts up bond insurer to rival MBIA, Ambac
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc   is starting a bond insurer that would help state and local governments lower their borrowing costs, and is likely to lure business from established rivals struggling with credit market turmoil.
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MBIA Inc, the world's largest bond  insurer, said it had guaranteed $8.1 billion of the riskiest  mortgage securities, imperiling its entire net worth and  sending its shares plunging 26 percent.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 25 -- Warren E. Buffett's investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, said Tuesday that it will pay $4.5 billion for 60 percent of Marmon Holdings, a private company that includes more than 125 manufacturing and service businesses.
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MBIA Inc , the world's largest bond insurer, slashed its common stock dividend 62 percent on Wednesday as part of a plan to strengthen capital and preserve the "triple-A" credit ratings it depends on to operate normally.
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MBIA Inc , the world's largest bond insurer, said it has exposure to $30.6 billion in complex mortgage securities that it insures, an amount that eclipses its entire net worth.
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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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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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MBIA Inc  said on Thursday it will have enough cash to meet its commitments even after reporting a worse-than-expected quarterly loss, while Standard &amp; Poor's is reviewing the top ratings it gave to the world's largest bond insurer.
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Wall Street surged higher after the investor Warren Buffett offered to help out troubled bond insurers, easing some concerns about further deterioration in the credit markets.
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Swiss Reinsurance, the biggest reinsurer, said billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway took a 3 percent stake and will assume a share of its non-life business, giving Swiss Re's shares their biggest spike in four years. Berkshire will get 20 percent of Swiss Re's property and casualty business over the next five years, Swiss Re said [...].
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MBIA Inc , the world's largest  bond insurer, on Wednesday slashed its common stock dividend 62  percent as part of a plan to strengthen capital and preserve  the "triple-A" credit ratings it depends on to operate  normally.
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About 50 large bond investors,  including pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds and  other managers, have banded together to lobby companies for  better investment-grade bond contracts, The Wall Street Journal  reported on Monday.
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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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American International Group ,  the world's largest insurer, said on Sunday it will offer its  first insurance coverage complying with Islamic law, tapping a  market that could be worth $15 billion by 2015.
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A three-bank consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Tuesday launched an rival bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro, already the target of a friendly takeover bid by Barclays.
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A three-bank consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Tuesday launched a rival bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro, already the target of a friendly takeover bid by British bank Barclays.
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MBIA Inc, the world's largest bond insurer, said it had guaranteed $8.1 billion of the riskiest mortgage securities, imperiling its entire net worth and sending its shares plunging 26 percent.