Insurance

Wells Fargo & Co., the biggest U.S. home lender, is restructuring sales and trading operations to form a new markets division at its investment bank as the company challenges more established Wall Street rivals, Bloomberg reported. The division …

The Stelter Co. has partnered with The National Association of Estate Planners & Councils (NAEPC) Education Foundation to launch an educational website to assist Americans in their estate and financial planning. The new www.asmartplanabetterworld.com, provides estate …

Davenport-based Lee Enterprises Inc. repaid $60 million of debt in fiscal year 2012, which ended Sept. 30, theWaterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported.

The company has since paid an additional $15.3 million, bringing its balance down to $930.6 …

Nationwide Financial Services Inc. has entered into a multimillion-dollar settlement with the insurance departments of California, Florida, Illinois, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Ohio for its misuse of the Social Security Death Master File …

Wells Fargo & Co. reported a 22 percent increase in its third-quarter profit this morning on a surge in mortgage lending but fell short of analysts’ revenue estimates, Reuters reported. Shares in the fourth-largest U.S. bank …

Regions Financial Corp. on Thursday became the third bank this week to experience service disruptions to its website after being targeted by a group claiming to have ties to Islamic terrorism, Fox Business reported. The …

Home prices are rising. Unemployment is dropping and the average American consumer’s confidence is up.  So why are the country’s CEOs battening down the hatches?

MSN Money explored what the country’s business leaders know that …