Barclays PLC

The Securities and Exchange Commission is certainly looking all spiffy and new these days. Mary Jo White, the former federal prosecutor and Debevoise & Plimpton law partner, has taken over as chairman. She tapped her longtime deputy at the Southern...

Protective Life Corp. agreed to buy a portfolio of old policies from French insurer AXA SA's U.S. business for $1.1 billion, with the aim of squeezing more value out of them. Birmingham, Alabama-based Protective Life said the deal with Axa's Mony Life...

Financial stocks are weighing heavily on the market Monday, hit by worries about a wider government-debt crisis in Europe and by the U.S. government’s pursuit of an apparently massive insider-trading investigation. Within the Standard & Poor’s 500...

In the beginning, there was cash. Then we wrote checks for our purchases, which were quickly followed by credit and debit cards. And now there are -- smart phones? The two largest U.S. wireless carriers, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc., are in talks to...

Wall Street extended its slide in early trading Friday after Wachovia Corp. warned it will take quarterly loan losses, raising investor concern the credit slump shows no sign of abating. The nation's fourth-largest bank said in a filing with the...

Barclays asserts that it still is fully committed to the Nets' planned new arena, The Barclays Center, even given these difficult times for banks and stuff. The race is on to begin construction before LeBron James signs with the Knicks.......

WASHINGTON - Seven major investment banks gave Enron Corp. multimillion-dollar loans that helped the now-bankrupt company disguise its financial condition, and in some cases, they knew that Enron was using deceptive accounting for the loans, a Senate...