Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday posted higher quarterly profit as strength in its international business and new store openings helped offset disappointing U.S. sales. Read more…

The world's first weather-insurance policy to help poor African farmers avoid crippling losses inflicted by drought has proven so successful that the United Nations has said the scheme would be expanded. Read more…

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. posted a better-than-expected 11.5 percent rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, helped by strength in its international business, and said deep discounts would drive holiday sales. Read more…

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) November 14, 2006 -- To prepare for the upcoming holiday shopping season, ACI Specialty Benefits Corporation, one of the nation's leading Employee Assistance Providers by Business Insurance and Workforce Management Magazines, is offering clients complimentary Identity Theft Kits to protect themselves from becoming victims of identity theft. Read more…

Total federal and state tax subsidies for employer-sponsored health care coverage for active workers will exceed $200 billion in 2006, an inflation- adjusted increase of more than 150 percent since 1987, according to a new study sponsored by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Read more…

Driven by climate change, weather disasters could cost as much as a trillion dollars in a single year by 2040, financial experts warned at the UN's conference on global warming. Read more…

Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Leaders of Detroit's automakers finally sit down with President George W. Bush today to air their ideas for helping their ailing industry -- at a moment when Bush has become less relevant to the discussion. Read more…

TUESDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Younger stroke survivors have a tougher time getting medical care and affording prescription drugs compared to older patients, a U.S. study finds. Read more…

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The tide may have finally turned for multiline insurance behemoth American International Group (NYSE: AIG - News). Read more…

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on America's Health Insurance Plans' (AHIP) proposal to extend health insurance to all Americans Read more…

Most Americans believe smokers and obese people should pay more for health insurance, but they have mixed views on how to help the millions without any health insurance, according to a survey published on Tuesday. Read more…

Homeowners in hurricane-weary Florida should be able to get bare-bones property insurance, coverage for only part of their home's value or even a policy that doesn't cover hurricane damage, according to draft recommendations from a state task force. Read more…

Members of the Navy came to the aid of one of their own on Tuesday after a woman's home was destroyed by an overnight fire. Read more…

Flawed government policies and negative stereotyping of minority men have limited their economic opportunities, a new study says. It urges improved health care and education for minorities and less media consolidation. Read more…

Officials at Kahuku Hospital announced on Tuesday that the facility will close by the end of the year. Read more…

The state of Florida owes 8 million people in Florida cash and you could be one of them. Read more…

Jenny Bagent considers herself a Democrat and knows she should be thrilled her party won control of Congress. But the mother of two is skeptical life is suddenly going to get better for ordinary Americans. Read more…

Citigroup Inc. , was set to announce victory in a protracted $3 billion bid for a Chinese bank on Thursday, beating rival Societe Generale , two sources close to the deal said on Wednesday. Read more…

When stocks roar ahead, as they have been in Eastern Europe lately, having a strict buy and sell discipline and holding cash can help ease the whiplash when they turn south. Thomas Neuhold navigates The World Funds -- Eastern European Equity Fund (NASDAQ:VEEEX - News) in Vienna as a bottom-up value investor who examines the profitability and valuation levels of companies before he dips in. He Read more…

The federal agency that insures private pension plans for millions of Americans logged a deficit of $18.1 billion this year, a big improvement from last year as a new law helped to put the agency on better financial footing. Read more…

High-tech manufacturing and services conglomerate Tyco International Ltd. on Wednesday posted a 38 percent jump in its fiscal fourth-quarter profit. But the company said it found errors in its stock-option granting practices under prior management that will cost $171 million in after-tax expenses. Read more…

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Leading shares closed firmly ahead, at an intraday high, with M&A talk fuelling gains in the insurance sector and a large deal in the US buoying airline stocks, while Wall Street remained on positive terrain, dealers said. Read more…

A great exercise to go through is trying to figure out how much a car will cost you over its life. It can help you make smart decisions about which vehicles to buy, sell, and keep. Read more…