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When Constellation Energy Group Inc. was struggling under a liquidity crisis so severe that it threatened to put the nation’s largest wholesale power generator into bankruptcy, it was Warren Buffett who threw out a $1 billion life preserver to keep the co
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A Taiwanese business tycoon has criticized U.S. investor Warren Buffett’s decision to invest in a Chinese battery and car maker facing a lawsuit accusing it of...
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Warren Buffett says his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., will report a roughly 10 percent drop in its first-quarter operating profit next week.
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The world’s second-richest man, Warren Buffett, wasn’t even the highest paid employee at his company last year. That distinction belonged once again to...
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Warren Buffett might be warning of a Treasury bond “bubble,” but investors took their cues from the stock market Monday and fled to most government debt...
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Warren Buffett says the economic turmoil that contributed to a 62 percent profit drop last year at the holding company he controls is certain to continue in 2009, but...
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Tiffany & Co. says it sold $250 million of debt to billionaire Warren Buffett’s company, and the jeweler plans to use the proceeds to refinance existing...
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AP, Zurich
Swiss Reinsurance Co. said Thursday it will get a capital injection of 3 billion Swiss francs ($2.6 billion) from U.S. financier Warren Buffett after warning investors...
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A unit of Warren Buffett’s company has sold 2.7 million of the roughly 20 million shares of Constellation Energy Group Inc. it received when Constellation...
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says the U.S. is engaged in an “economic Pearl Harbor.”
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France’s state-controlled power company challenged a proposed takeover by Warren Buffett of Constellation Energy Wednesday, putting up almost as much money for...
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Electricite de France SA said Wednesday it will challenge famed investor Warren Buffett’s planned takeover of U.S. wholesale power generator Constellation Energy...
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says U.S. automakers need a new business model to better compete, whether it takes bankruptcy or a government bailout to achieve.
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Here’s something that might provide a bit of solace amid the plunging values in your retirement accounts: Warren Buffett is losing lots of money, too. So are Kirk...
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Financial markets turned lower again Wednesday, with stocks mostly declining after a short-lived pop on investor Warren Buffett’s decision to invest $5 billion in...
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Financial markets gave mixed signals Wednesday, with stocks stabilizing following investor Warren Buffett’s $5 billion bet on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. but the...
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