Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett, who has used dozens of acquisitions to beat every major U.S. stock index, is poised to extend his lead with more than $40 billion to spend as the credit crunch sidetracks other bidders.
With the U.S. on the brink of recession, investors expect Buffett to deploy Berkshire’s cash to scoop [...]

http://www.iht.com. FRANKFURT: Europe is facing a “very strong inflationary shock” as a result of rising energy and food costs, the top European Union official for economic affairs said Monday as the price of oil neared $120 a barrel.
Joaquín Almunia, the EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, said that higher inflation was emerging as “a [...]

April 28 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may have to start talking and acting more like Paul Volcker if he wants to avoid being remembered as another Arthur Burns.
With oil and food prices surging, Volcker told the Economic Club of New York on April 9 that “there are some resemblances between the [...]

This strategy involves investing in the securities of a company that is or is expected to be in trouble. Some distressed securities can trade at large discounts to their actual risk adjusted basis. This is due to the psychological effect that occurs in the marketplace when a firm gets into trouble or files [...]

LONDON (Reuters) - BlackRock, the giant U.S. investment fund with some $1.36 trillion in assets under management, reckons the banking crisis is not over and companies are delaying expansion plans and in some case cutting spending.
But in a note, Bob Doll, the firm’s global chief investment officer for equities, says there are nonetheless 10 positive [...]