Swiss Re reported a net profit of CHF 150 million ($131.6 million) in the first quarter of 2009, compared to...
Warren Buffett News
Billionaire Warren Buffett on Sunday criticized some life insurers for taking on “crazy” financial risks by selling variable annuities, or...
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett says the company’s young bond insurance unit has not been writing much new business because...
Warren Buffett criticized the government’s stress tests of 19 large U.S. banks, and said he would buy more shares of...
Being a big insurer will cost Berkshire Hathaway Inc. dearly when severe catastrophes strike, but it is a good place...
Moody’s Investors Service cut its credit ratings on Berkshire Hathaway Inc from Aaa, the top rating, saying the recession and...
A hurricane insurance bill that would help Florida reduce its multibillion-dollar exposure in the state’s tenuous insurance market moved through...
A Senate committee searching for ways to improve Florida’s shaky property insurance situation and lower the state’s risk recommended borrowing...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is at risk of losing its “AAA” credit rating from Standard & Poor’s, after the ratings agency...
Amidst all the gloom and doom, the failures and frustrations, the finger pointing and scapegoating, the drumbeat of negative economic...