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• UPDATE 4-Buffett trades warrants for smaller stake in Goldman Tuesday, 26 Mar 2013 | 4:13 PM ET

  March 26- Warren Buffett has given up his chance to become Goldman Sachs Group Inc's largest shareholder no additional cost to his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Buffett received the warrants as part of a 2008 deal during the depths of the financial crisis, when his investment in Goldman was seen as a vote of confidence in the firm.

• Hedge fund manager Cohen buys Wynn's Picasso for $155 million -report Tuesday, 26 Mar 2013 | 10:32 AM ET

  NEW YORK, March 26- Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen has bought a famous Picasso painting from casino mogul Steve Wynn for a record price, according to a report in the New York Post on Tuesday.

• UPDATE 2-Rajaratnam's brother pleads not guilty in insider case Monday, 25 Mar 2013 | 1:22 PM ET

  *Rengan Rajaratnam charged with fraud, conspiracy. NEW YORK, March 25- Rengan Rajaratnam, the younger brother of imprisoned hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, on Monday pleaded not guilty to insider trading charges.

• EU 'Blueprint' Comments Harmful: Expert  Monday, 25 Mar 2013 | 12:30 PM ET

  

  Alec Young, global equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, tells CNBC that EU comments about Cyprus being a template for future bailouts caused a wave of concern late in Monday trading, halting the market rally.

• CORRECTED-FACTBOX-The Cyprus banks that have transfixed the world Saturday, 23 Mar 2013 | 7:11 PM ET

  Bank of Cyprus What: With a legacy stretching back to 1899, Bank of Cyprus is the island's largest. Its business is largely retail banking in Cyprus and Greece, but it also has some investment banking, private banking and the Kermia Beach Bungalow Hotel in the Ayia Napa resort.

• Hedge funds take commodity bets back to month high from 1-yr low Friday, 22 Mar 2013 | 6:40 PM ET

  Corn, natural gas also see strong buying. March 22- Hedge funds and other big speculators have taken their bullish bets on U.S. commodities back to a one-month high from a more than a one-year low, data showed on Friday, as they bought gold this week on fears of financial meltdown in Cyprus. Corn also saw strong hedge fund buying on worries over short supply in the grain.

• CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-ICE to study cutting soft commodities trading hours Friday, 22 Mar 2013 | 5:55 PM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO, March 22- IntercontinentalExchange Inc will consider cutting trading hours for soft commodities in a bid to improve liquidity, president and chief operating officer of ICE Futures U.S.

• UPDATE 2-ICE to consider cutting soft commodities trading hours Friday, 22 Mar 2013 | 4:25 PM ET

  SAN FRANCISCO, March 22- IntercontinentalExchange Inc will consider cutting trading hours for soft commodities in a bid to improve liquidity, president and chief operating officer of ICE Futures U.S.

• EXCLUSIVE-Southeastern had eyed joining Dell buyout group-sources Thursday, 21 Mar 2013 | 6:33 PM ET

  NEW YORK/ BOSTON, March 21- Dell Inc is set to disclose next week that its largest independent investor, Southeastern Asset Management, originally expressed interest in joining the proposed leveraged buyout deal that it now opposes, according to two people familiar with the matter.

• INTERVIEW-Polish pension funds fear govt will tap their assets again Thursday, 21 Mar 2013 | 9:19 AM ET

  WARSAW, March 21- Poland's pension funds expect the government to tap their assets again soon to help the ailing state finances and fear that any such move could hit the stock exchange and the economy at large.

• Investing in Mongolian Markets  Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 8:10 PM ET

  

  Saruul Ganbaatar, Deputy CEO of the Mongolian Stock Exchange, discusses the steps the exchange is taking to attract more activity.

• 'Rogue financier' Homm indicted in U.S. in $200 mln fraud Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 5:23 PM ET

  March 20- Florian Homm, a flamboyant hedge fund manager who was arrested in Italy this month after five years on the run, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles for running what prosecutors called a fraud that caused investors to lose $200 million.

• Keystone XL pipeline debate rattles Massachusetts Senate race Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 2:39 PM ET

  BOSTON/ WASHINGTON, March 20- A former hedge fund manager turned environmental activist who opposes the Keystone XL pipeline has waded into the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race, threatening to undermine a pledge by the two Democratic candidates to reject outside money.

• Hedge funds raise bets against Hungary bonds Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 8:40 AM ET

  Economics and politics are informing these hedge funds' thinking on Hungary, central Europe's most indebted nation on the basis of its public debt of around 79 percent of GDP.

• Fortress hedge fund bets yen slide has further to run Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 5:12 AM ET

  LONDON, March 20- The flagship hedge fund of Fortress Investment Group is betting on a further slide in the Japanese yen, predicting the new central bank governor in Tokyo will step-up the pace of monetary policy easing.

• UPDATE 2-PIMCO cuts euro exposure as investors decry Cyprus bailout plan Tuesday, 19 Mar 2013 | 2:32 PM ET

  LONDON, March 19- A demand that Cyprus seize money from depositors to help rescue the island's banks is a wake-up call for those who believed the euro zone crisis was solved, institutional investors and hedge funds said.

• European shares hit for second day by Cyprus concerns Tuesday, 19 Mar 2013 | 1:28 PM ET

  LONDON, March 19- European shares fell for a second day on Tuesday, with investors spooked by the possibility that Cyprus could reject a bailout, likely leading to bank collapses and fallout for the euro zone.

• How Tiny Cyprus Could Still Have Big Market Impact Monday, 18 Mar 2013 | 1:43 PM ET

  

  Investors took a subdued reaction Monday to the bailout chaos in Cyprus, but expect that to change significantly should policy makers stumble further.

• Hedge funds raise bullish commodity bets first time in 5 weeks Friday, 15 Mar 2013 | 6:30 PM ET

  *Natgas sees nearly $2 billion in new long money. Natural gas saw close to $2 billion worth of new net long contracts by the so-called money managers during the week to March 12, according to Reuters calculations of the data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

• If fund manager Lasry gets ambassador nod, investors likely to stay Friday, 15 Mar 2013 | 6:27 PM ET

  NEW YORK, March 15- It's not every day that a money manager gets tapped as the next ambassador to France, but investors in Marc Lasry's $12 billion hedge fund Avenue Capital could be facing that scenario.