Financial Markets, Insurance, and Real Estate
Lifetime Sports Academy : The program that teaches sports skills and values to children from throughout the city wraps up its 13th year, with this year's enrollment topping 1,700. WellPoint: Indianapolis-based health insurance giant posts a second-quarter net profit of $722 million.
Dairy Queen President and CEO John Gainor holds a 33-inch, red Dairy Queen spoon for Warren Buffett to sign at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in May.
Johnson Sash & Door is a family owned and operated Window and Door Company that has been doing business in the Omaha area since 1932.
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he had opened a fraud investigation into how life insurers pay out benefits after policyholders die.
Genworth Financial Inc. shares dropped more than 15% Friday on concern about higher lapse rates in the company's life insurance business.
The search for successors to Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and Chief Executive Warren Buffett took a big leap forward Friday after The Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese hedge-fund manager Li Lu is a leading candidate to oversee part of the company's giant investment portfolio.
Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange : Osisko Mining Corp.
Heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. said Friday it will build a parts plant for large mining machines, and it expects to employ about 510 full-time and contract workers in five years.
Shares of MetLife Inc. rose more than 4% and topped financial-sector gainers in the S&P 500 Friday, as several analysts raised their forecasts for the insurance giant a day after it reported strong earnings.
North Carolina hopes to be picked as the site for a new plant planned by heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.
MetLife Inc. and Genworth Financial said late Thursday that they swung to quarterly profits.
Life insurers are facing a barrage of investigations and criticism over the way the industry pays death benefits for veterans and other federal employees.
