Stocks rose broadly on Tuesday with Caterpillar Inc and other industrial shares benefiting from a broker upgrade and talk of help for debt-burdened Greece reviving investor sentiment.

Loews CEO Tisch Says U.S. Sounded Hotel 'Death Knell,' Hurt AIG Feb. 9 -- Jim Tisch , the leader of Loews Corp.

MetLife, the largest publicly traded U.S. life insurer, may pay roughly $8 billion of the purchase price in stock and the rest in cash, according to the source.

Buffett's and Paulson's will headline Tuesday's Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce annual meeting.

Backers of the planned experimental clean-coal power plant called FutureGen say the public-private venture envisioned for eastern Illinois has landed another corporate partner.

Life insurer Lincoln National Corp. on Monday posted net income of $102 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $506 million a year earlier, but it lost $485 million for the year.

Principal Financial Group Inc., an insurance, retirement and financial services company, reported a profit Monday, saying cost-cutting reduced its expenses and it lost half what it did a year earlier on its investments.

Hartford Financial Services reported a $557 million quarterly profit late Monday, but the insurer was cautious about its outlook for 2010.

The Obama administration on Monday asked California's largest for-profit health insurer to justify plans to hike customers' premiums by as much as 39 percent, a move that could affect some 800,000 customers.

The vice chairman for KeyCorp has left to take a job with struggling insurer American International Group, the company said Monday.

U.S. regulators are investigating whether the mortgage insurance market was improperly distressed in 2008 because of payment demands that Goldman Sachs Group Inc and other banks made on American International Group Inc , The New York Times reported on Sunday.

A former Ponte Vedra Beach financial broker accused of bilking mostly elderly investors of $2 million in a Ponzi scheme is set to appear in federal court today for a plea hearing, according to court records filed last week.

Transportation Two railways that may be an investor's route to profit A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad locomotive sits on the track as workers stand nearby in Seattle.

Insurer and wealth manager AMP Ltd says it's considering its position in relation to its takeover bid for fellow insurer AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd, following the expiry of an exclusivity agreement with the target's French parent.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. . Berkshire Hathaway Inc. today announced that 5:00 p.m., New York time, on February 10, 2010 is the anticipated deadline for submission of Forms of Election by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation shareholders to receive cash, Berkshire stock or a mix of the two in connection with the proposed merger of BNSF with and ...

Massachusetts-based insurer The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. saw fourth-quarter profits jump 68 percent to $57.3 million, up from $34.1 million in the year-ago quarter.

The SEC is investigating whether the bank improperly hurt the mortgage market in a dispute with the insurance giant over demands for payments on sour securities.

Maybe it has to do with my age or the period during which I grew up, but somewhere in my brain an advertising firm managed to plant the idea of Freedom 55, a uniquely Canadian slogan.

Companies in the U.S. are spending the highest portion of bond-sale proceeds in more than a decade for acquisitions and expansions, joining Warren Buffetta s a oeall- in wagera on a recovery and taking advantage of the lowest borrowing costs since 2004.

Don Dion OMAHA, Neb. - TheStreet.com Published on Friday, Feb. 05, 2010 9:58AM EST Last updated on Friday, Feb.