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Compensating the Buffett way

Warren Buffett calls for a change for Wall Street's bonus structure. BTW, the Oracle of Omaha earns annual compensation of $100,000 from his Berkshire Hathaway, which will likely be dwarfed by this year's Wall Street bonus jump 40% to $26 billion in 2009


Citi gets slimmer as markets finish in the green

The Dow inched up 44.29 points, or 0.54%, to 8,212.41, and Nasdaq moved forward 1.90, or 0.11%, to 1,719.20.


Berkshire meeting will focus on dealmaking

Berkshire Hathaway will be hosting its annual shareholder meeting Saturday in Omaha where Warren Buffett will likely highlight his company's deals in 2008 and dealmaking plans for the 2009.


Buffett beats Sumitomo Mitsui to the punch on Goldman investment

Warren Buffett's move to swoop in with a $5 billion capital injection into Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may have derailed a plan by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group to make a similarly sized investment in the Wall Street titan....


Goldman Sachs to double public offering to $5B

Spurred on by the positive reaction to a $5 billion investment from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., newly minted commercial bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is doubling the amount it plans to raise from a stock offering from $2.5 billion to $5 billion. ...


Buffett sees a star in Constellation

It's no secret that billionaire Warren Buffett likes businesses that are simple to understand and preferably "undervalued" by the marketplace. Perhaps the sage investor found another diamond in the rough with the purchase of utility Constellation Energy Group Inc. for $4.7 billion by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. ...


Warren Buffett comments on porn and PE

Speaking at an event in Toronto last February, Warren Buffett used the Q&A time to take a shot at private equity firms, comparing buyout shops -- until recently some of his heaviest competition for acquisitions -- to "porn shops." ...


Social Security should give thanks to Buffett's dealmaking

Billionaire Warren Buffett may be the solution to the future shortfall that the U.S. government expects in Social Security as the baby boom generation becomes eligible for benefits....



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Paulson's proposal to purchase an equity stake in Yellow Pages publisher Idearc is the second time in recent months an investor group has used its prepetition debt position to execute a bargain price 'exit LBO.'


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