Finance Roundtable

Here’s Deal Journal’s scorecard of some of the week’s biggest winners and losers in the world of business, M&A, and banking.

WINNERS

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Goldman Sachs Group granted Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein restricted stock valued at $7 million as of Wednesday’s close as part of his 2011 compensation.

The grant is 43% lower ...

By Amy Or

The Carlyle Group has dropped a controversial forced arbitration clause that would have stripped investors of the ability to hold the private-equity firm publicly accountable for fraud, misconduct or negligence in a court of law, the company said Friday.

In a statement, Carlyle said the decision was made after ...

Let’s call this the Facebook effect.

Stock markets are surging today and the Nasdaq has hit its highest point since 2001. Of course, ...

AIG has spent the last four years selling off assets — more than $50 billion all told.

That might be about to change. AIG Chairman Steve Miller tells Bloomberg TV that the insurer is ready to go on the offensive. He says the AIG is now focused on growth and returning ...

Phil Falcone’s Harbinger Capital lost 47% last year in its biggest fund, a spokesman for the fund confirmed.

The drop is because the fund took a large writedown on ...

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When it comes to investing, the Berkshire Hathaway chief executive is a serious man. But put him in front of a camera with young business students and he ...

By Andrew R. Johnson

Traditional payments companies like Visa, MasterCard and American Express are constantly looking over their shoulders for new competition. Do they need to keep an eye on Facebook?

Warren Buffett has been known to love a little comedy, and today’s WSJ gives some new color on how he’s willing to let it all loose for a good photo.

When the Oracle hosts business students, he allows them to pose for two pictures each.

Click below for the proof the ...

Over at MarketBeat, a bunch of Deal Journal pals have been live-blogging away on the jobs report, and they have all the full details and a whole bunch of reaction to the blow-away report.

But as an aside for Wall Streeters, the numbers for financial activities were down.

The number of ...