Buffett to start up municipal bond insurer: report
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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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Warren Buffett's holding company  Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) bought 1 million shares of  insurer UnitedHealth Group  in the fourth quarter of  2006, according to a regulatory filing.
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NEW YORK -- Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. will proceed with a plan to sell about $800 million of bonds from a money-losing hedge fund run by Bear Stearns Cos. , a day after delaying a similar auction, people with knowledge of the offering said.
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NEW YORK/AMSTERDAM  - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc , in its second acquisition this week, agreed to buy the NRG NV reinsurance unit of ING Group NV  for about 300 million euros ($441 million).
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The bond firm plans to tackle riskier investments.
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Lazard LLC has chosen Goldman Sachs as lead adviser for a possible initial public stock offering, according to a newspaper report published Monday.
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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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Bear Stearns is in serious talks with several outside investors, including Warren Buffett, about selling as much as 20 percent of the firm, according to a report in The New York Times online edition on Wednesday.
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The bond insurer, which took a $5.21 billion write-down, said it is reviewing ways to raise capital.
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The recapitalization of U.S. bond insurers hit by the subprime mortgage crisis could occur within "a couple of days," New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said on Thursday.
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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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Merrill Lynch is expected to report that it will add to its announced write-downs, a person briefed on the plan said.
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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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Investors are wary of insurance guarantees for some bonds issued by cities to fund capital projects.
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Warren Buffett plans to start a bonding agency for local and state governments.
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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 deteriorating credit markets.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the company  run by billionaire Warren Buffett, on Thursday said securities  regulators have requested information on insurance products  that might help companies distort earnings.