By Chikako Mogi TOKYO (Reuters) – Shares, gold and oil fell and the euro remained pressured on Wednesday as Greece struggled to form a government two days after an election, heightening the risk that a hard-won bailout deal could be scrapped. Radical leftist Alexis Tsipras meets the leaders of Greece’s mainstream parties on Wednesday to [...]

By most accounts, it has been rough few years for the world’s shrinking stable of dictators, with the exception of one: Mark Zuckerberg. According to author and investor Vitaliy Katsenelson, the 27-year-old head of Facebook (FB) has become bigger and more powerful than ever. “Right now this company [Facebook] is run by a dictator,” Katsenelson [...]

The headlines from Europe continue to be dire. In the weekend’s elections in France and Greece, the architects of failing austerity policies were thrown out of office. Sunday night, global markets were reacting negatively to the defeat of French President Nicolas Sarkozy by Socialist Francois Hollande, and a Greek election that promised more chaos. (Did [...]

Click to Follow Us on Facebook! We all know the old cliche: Don’t judge a book by its cover. As hard as this is to always practice, it often yields wonderful surprises. And so it is at the famed Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A)(BRK-B) annual shareholder meeting, where 40,000 people of all ages and from all over [...]

For most public companies, the annual meeting is a poorly attended, mandatory obligation that has been reduced to being little more than an hour-long formality that all but a few institutions ignore. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) isn’t most public companies. For Berkshire, the annual meeting is a three-day, sold-out festival that culminates in a standing [...]

By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – After Wall Street ended its worst week of the year on Friday, U.S. stock investors will look across the Atlantic next week to take their cue from Europe as France and Greece go to the polls. That could offer some respite from a string of weak U.S. economic [...]

Even if you wanted to ignore Warren Buffett and his annual shareholders meeting, you couldn’t. My co-host Matt Nesto will be reporting from Omaha surrounded by 40,000 passionate, slightly crazed, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and Buffett followers. If you want an analysis of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) or its avuncular chairman, we will be offering more in [...]

By Edward Krudy NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks fell on Thursday as economic data sent mixed signals on the recovery a day before the April payrolls report, while shares of Green Mountain (GMCR) plunged after poor results. Slower-than-expected growth in the dominant U.S. services sector drove the day’s trading. The retail sector dragged the market [...]

By Edward Krudy NEW YORK (Reuters) – The SP 500 and the Dow edged lower on Wednesday as data showed that private sector hiring fell far more than expected in April, sparking concerns that Friday’s U.S. jobs report will also disappoint investors. Private employers added 119,000 jobs in April, well short of the 177,000 expected, [...]

Futures Add to Losses After Jobs ReportReuters Stock index futures extended losses on Wednesday after data showed U.S. private employers added far fewer jobs … From: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/topfinstories/*http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dow-hits-four-high-lifted-015112033.html?l=1