Cigna 3Q profit falls, but expects 2012 growth

Cigna Corp.’s third-quarter profit tumbled 35 percent due to a bigger hit from some discontinued businesses, but income from its main segments grew and it […]

St. Louis County property tax exemptions worth $20 million to hospitals

Given the complexity of the tax code, legions of accountants and lawyers might be needed to calculate the worth of a large nonprofit health system’s […]

Canada to block airline strike

Canada’s Conservative government moved Tuesday to prevent a strike Thursday by Air Canada flight attendants by sending the matter to the Canada Industrial Relations Board […]

Germany, Greece sign agreement to boost investment

Germany and Greece signed an agreement on Friday aimed at boosting investment in the debt-drowned country and getting its economy growing again .
German Economy Minister […]

IMF official retracts statement on bond purchases

In a dramatic turnaround, a senior official for the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday retracted an earlier comment that the IMF could intervene in bond […]

US futures fall ahead of Bernanke testimony

U.S. stock futures are falling sharply ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony before Congress on the outlook for the U.S. economy.
Stocks fell broadly […]

Feds: competition concerns in Duke-Progress merger

Federal energy regulators are giving Duke Energy and Progress Energy 60 days to describe how they would remedy anticompetitive effects of their merger in their […]

Venezuela’s Chavez denies rumors of health setback

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday denied rumors of a setback in his health, saying he is at work and expects to finish with cancer […]

Regulators close Va., Calif. banks; 73 for year

Regulators have closed banks in Virginia and California, lifting to 73 the number of U.S. bank failures this year.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday […]

United Auto Workers leaders endorse new contract

Union leaders from General Motors factories around the country have endorsed a new four-year contract with the company.
They are recommending that GM’s 48,500 factory workers […]