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Buffett's Berkshire muscles into Thai reinsurance

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is pushing into the Thai reinsurance market and selling cover for higher rates, taking advantage of the retreat of competitors such as France's CCR after they suffered losses from last year's floods.
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Buffett builds media portfolio in fourth quarter

Berkshire Hathaway increased its exposure to media companies significantly in the fourth quarter, adding a new position in Liberty Media and substantially raising its stake in DirecTV, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
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Former McKinsey chief and ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta (C) exits the Manhattan Federal Court with his lawyers after attending a pre-trial hearing on insider-trading charges in New York January 5, 2012.

Berkshire, Goldman Names Surface in Rajat Gupta Case

The names of a top executive at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and a board member at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. surfaced on Friday as potential witnesses in the insider-trading trial of Rajat Gupta, a former director of Goldman, the Procter & Gamble Co., and other companies.
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Billionaire Buffett defends proposed tax rate change

Increasing taxes on the wealthy would bring fairness to U.S. taxpayers across the board, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on Wednesday, backing the tax reform that President Barack Obama proposed in his State of the Union address.
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Prem Watsa brings hope to RIM's restless shareholders

The arrival of the man known as the Warren Buffett of North on Research In Motion's board this week offers a ray of hope to the BlackBerry maker's impatient shareholders after their disappointment that an insider was named new chief executive.
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Bill Gates Says Higher Taxes on Wealthy is 'Justice'

The United States has a huge budget deficit, so taxes are going to have to go up. I certainly agree that they should have to go up more on the rich than everyone else. That's just justice, Gates said on Wednesday while discussing President Obama's State of the Union address.
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Analysis: Shipping signal gnaws at market optimism

A nightmare on world freight markets, where shipping prices have been decimated over the past four years, is gnawing at New Year optimism about a stabilizing world economy and shows how adept investors can be at tuning out 'inconvenient' information.
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Mitt Romney Releases Tax Returns: Paid $6.2M in Taxes but $7M to Church and Charity

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, succumbing to public pressure, released his tax returns for the year 2010 and estimated returns for the year 2011, early on Tuesday, according to a Washington Post report. His disclosures show he earned $21.7 million in 2010, for which he paid tax at the rate of 13.9 percent - therefore he paid approximately $3 million in taxes. According to the report, his income will stand at $20.9 million in 2011, for which he will pay tax at the estimated rate ...
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Mitt Romney Tax Returns: 15% Is Low Even for the Rich

If Mitt Romney's 15 percent estimate is accurate, his effective tax rate is below average even among the wealthiest Americans. He may face criticism from his peers among the top1 percent in income as well as the middle class when he releases his 2010 tax returns on Tuesday.
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Romney’s Tax Rate is About 15% - The Bain of His Political Existence?

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s admission that his income tax rate was “probably closer to 15 percent than anything” may re-ignite the debate on the lower tax rate for capital gains and carried interest than for ordinary income -- the income category for most typical Americans.
Kim Kardashian and Warren Buffett

Even Warren Buffett Can't Ignore Kim Kardashian!

It doesn't matter that some Americans have had enough of the Kardashian family and are actively protesting to take Keeping up with the Kardashians off the air. There are some others who continue to remain hooked! Even legendary investor Warren Buffett isn't, apparently, able to ignore the clan that became famous for reasons nobody really knows any more.
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GE ordered to defend lawsuit tied to 2008 crisis

A federal judge refused on Thursday to throw out a lawsuit accusing General Electric Co and its chief executive of misleading investors about the conglomerate's financial health and exposure to risky debt during the 2008 financial crisis.
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GE jumps into retail banking with MetLife deal

General Electric Co agreed to buy life insurer MetLife Inc's online bank on Tuesday, in a deal that will let GE's capital arm expand its funding base and lessen reliance on wholesale markets.

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