Nearly quadrupling its stake in Apple Inc and increasing its stake sevenfold in the four biggest U.S. airlines, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc was an aggressive buyer of stocks in last year's fourth quarter.   Up from just from 15.2 million shares in the iPhone maker three months...

Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee, a suspect in a graft investigation that may topple President Park Geun-hye, was sought to be arrested by South Korea's special prosecutor's office as it said that it would again seek a warrant to arrest Lee.   On Monday, questioned for more than 15 hours by...

In what amounts to a victory for plain-vanilla mutual funds over a bevy of hedge fund managers who recently backed away from the iPhone maker, Apple shares cruised to a record-high close Monday, helping catapult the S&P 500 stock index over the $20 trillion mark.   Giving it a market...

Investor attention to the Japanese group's efforts to fix that and other balance sheet headaches would be turned as Toshiba Corp, after bruising cost overruns at its U.S. nuclear arm, will detail a writedown of close to $6 billion.   A year after a $1.3 billion accounting scandal, warnings...

The Nikkei reported on Sunday that in the nine months through December, Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp probably suffered a group net loss of about 400 billion yen ($3.52 billion).   The company suffered loss of around 600 billion yen on a U.S. nuclear unit that came to light in late 2016...

As the Samsung Group investigates a graft scandal that has engulfed the country's president, the group scion Jay Y. Lee will be questioned again on suspicion of bribery on Monday, said the South Korea's special prosecutor.   While a court rejected a warrant to arrest him in the inquiry into...

Folding its London operations into the United States and shifting staff members to New York is the Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (GSIP), which opened in 2008 with one of the biggest launches in hedge fund history, reported global news agency Reuters quoting four sources.   The sources...

Amid a battle with Chinese and Middle Eastern carriers and as Singapore Airlines Ltd. closes in on an order for at least 35 wide-body aircraft, Boeing Co. is the front-runner for the order, reports Bloomberg News.   The report quoted people with knowledge of the mater saying that after...

After the world’s second-biggest mining company reported the first gain in annual profit since 2013, Rio Tinto Group will pay a much higher dividend than expected and buy back $500 million of shares.   London-based Rio said on Wednesday that higher iron ore prices boosted underlying profit...

Taking the lead on a project initially outlined by its Taiwanese parent Foxconn, Japanese display maker Sharp Corp may start building a $7 billion plant in the United States in the first half of 2017, several media reported quoting a person with knowledge of the plan.   The Japanese Prime...

The president of Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, said that once a new launch pad is put into service in Florida next week, the company plans to launch its Falcon 9 rockets every two to three weeks, its fastest rate since starting launches in 2010.   It was just five...