Warren Buffett's new bond insurer has seen its business "skyrocket" since opening for business just five months ago.   In a big-picture piece summarizing first quarter results, Dow Jones Newswires compares the early numbers from Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp. to the established, and struggling, bond insurers.    Read More

Some of the worst stocks are up Monday despite bad news. Are any of them worth buying?   Read More

Alan Greenspan said Thursday that the worst of credit crisis is over. Is it time to celebrate… or is Greenspan the first to arrive at this party?   Read More

When Warren Buffet treated his 31,000 plus audience to his annual Berkshire Hathaway gathering in Nebraska recently he was asked about the banks. When would he be happy to buy back into U.S. investment banks?    Read More

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says his look at a possible conflict of interest involving Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Moody's is "simply one facet" of a broader investigation into the credit rating agencies. In an interview today (Thursday) with NBC station WVIT in Hartford, Blumenthal calls the Berkshire-Moody's relationship a "symptom of flaws in a system rife with conflicts of interest and problematic relationships."    Read More

Connecticut's Attorney General Richard Blumenthal tells Bloomberg he's investigating a possible conflict of interest involving Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.   Berkshire owns a big stake in the credit rating agency Moody's, which recently gave Berkshire's new bond insurer its highest rating, a triple-A.    Read More

The Bank of England's financial stability report was vague enough on timing and specifics to avoid being seen as a market call on the financials - but that is how some are reading it.   Read More

Sure, consumer confidence is at a 5-year low. You wouldn't know it by looking at these credit-card stocks.   Read More

... Burlesque in one Act by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission   Read More

Not all homebuilders are big corporate risk takers who got what was coming to them --  it'sthe small-business builders who are the real victims. Also, plays on Wal-Mart, Carnival and more.   Read More