George Soros is buying tech stocks – and gold

Fresh from delivering his solution to the European debt crisis, legendary investor George Soros has been on a spending spree. So what's he been buying?

George Soros may have been preoccupied lately with promoting his solution to the eurozone debt crisis at Davos and his new book, but he has also been busy on the investment front. The 81-year old stock market guru, who famously bet against sterling during the Black Wednesday crisis in the 1990s, pocketing a $1bn profit, has been building up stakes in a handful of technology stocks.

According to the Wall Street Journal's blog, Deal Journal, Securities and Exchange Commission filings show that Soros Fund Management boosted its position in search engine giant Google during the fourth quarter but sold off its stake in Amazon.

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Piper Terrett is a financial journalist and author. Piper graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1997 and worked for Germaine Greer and for Adam Faith’s Money Channel before embarking on a career in business journalism. 

She has worked for most top financial titles, including Investors Chronicle, Shares magazine, Yahoo! Finance and MSN Money. She lectures part-time at London Metropolitan University and is the author of four books.