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For beginning investors, uncertainty offers opportunity
Starting out in investing right now might seem irrational, but many investment experts consider this an opportune time. Financial trauma produces long-term bargains, if you can cope with uncertainty. You'll move gradually into a market that has...Tags: Microsoft Corp., T. Rowe Price, General Electric Company, Schlumberger Limited, Finance
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Investors aim to hitch their fortunes to Warren Buffett
Frustrated by the financial meltdown, some investors have an idea: Stand next to a winner. And not just any winner. They're eyeing Warren Buffett. "I'd like to get a piece of the sweetheart deals he got at Goldman and GE," one investor said at a recent...Tags: American Express Company, General Electric Company, 401K, Morningstar Incorporated, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated
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GE profit falls 22 pct, meets lowered expectations with finance unit hammered by credit crisis
AP Business WriterHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ General Electric Co. spared investors any nasty surprises as it reported a 22 percent drop in third-quarter earnings on Friday, meeting its own lowered forecast and blaming the decline on its struggling finance arm. The company's...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Corporate Officers, General Electric Company, Automotive Equipment, NBC
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GE profit falls but spares investors any nasty surprise by meeting lowered expectations
AP Business WriterHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ General Electric Co. spared investors any nasty surprises as it reported a 22 percent drop in third-quarter earnings, meeting its own lowered forecast and blaming the decline on its struggling finance arm. The company's loan and...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, General Electric Company, Automotive Equipment, NBC, Energy
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'The Snowball' is a richly detailed story about the Sage of Omaha
Special to The TimesIT IS difficult to imagine better timing for the publication of a Warren Buffett biography, and not just any biography but a nearly 900-page authorized tome. For more than five years, Alice Schroeder, a former securities analyst, spent countless hours...Tags: Literature, General Electric Company, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated
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Forbes 400 list recalculated; Warren Buffett now the richest American
From Bloomberg NewsLas Vegas Sands Corp. Chief Executive Sheldon Adelson's net worth declined $4 billion from Aug. 29 to Oct. 1, the steepest drop among Americans who lost $1 billion or more during the credit crisis, according to Forbes magazine. The magazine, in its Oct....Tags: Microsoft Corp., Corporate Officers, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Bill Gates, Oracle Corp.
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22% decline in earnings still in line with GE's forecast
Associated PressFAIRFIELD, Conn. -- General Electric Co.'s third-quarter profit fell 22 percent, hurt by lower earnings at its finance business, which has been battered by the worst financial crisis since the stock market crash of 1929. GE, a bellwether of the U.S....Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, General Electric Company, Automotive Equipment, NBC, Energy
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Review: 'Snowball,' a biography of Warren Buffett
Bloomberg NewsTHE SNOWBALL: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder. Bantam, 960 pp., $35. Warren Buffett is a bundle of paradoxes. He's a tightwad whose personal fortune exceeded $60 billion last year. A Wall Street scourge whose company,...Tags: Literature, Health and Safety at School, Warren Buffett, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated
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AIG says it will sell units to pay down loan
The insurer American International Group Inc. said Friday it plans to sell off a number of business units to pay off its massive government loan, while retaining its U.S. property and casualty and foreign general insurance businesses. AIG, one of the...Tags: Management Change, American International Group, Corporate Officers, Bankruptcy, Bank of America Corp.
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Buffett Is Buying $3 Billion In GE Shares
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is investing $3 billion in Fairfield-based General Electric Co., a huge vote of confidence for an iconic American company battered by the credit crisis. It's the second time in as many weeks that Berkshire...Tags: General Electric Company, Warren Buffett, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated
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Goldman Sachs' survival in Wall Street jungle
Special to The TimesWHAT IS a disaster for America's Wall Street (actually 50th and Park) and London's City (actually Canary Wharf) and deep trouble for the economy of jobs, factories and stores has a (very small) silver lining for Charles D. Ellis and his publisher: "The...Tags: Business Institutions, Citigroup Incorporated, Bank of America Corp., Imperial and Royal Matters, Mortgages
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GE Stock Continues Slide
Shares of Fairfield-based General Electric Co. fell nearly 10 percent Thursday as the industrial and commercial conglomerate announced a share offering that was priced at a discount to the stock's closing price the previous day. The drop continued a...Tags: General Electric Company, Stock Market, Warren Buffett, Stock Activities
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