Global Economy
Top 10 Countries in Manufacturing; U.S. is ‘Rising Star’
Call it the comeback kid. A new ranking of the competitiveness of the world's top 25 exporting countries says the United States is once again a "rising star" of global manufacturing thanks to falling ...
Travelers CEO Fishman Bullish On Results, Promises ‘Selective’ M&A
The Travelers Cos. may have made a bold move in 2013 when it snatched up Dominion of Canada General Insurance. But the property/casualty insurance giant will be extremely selective about future ...
Few Will Buy Insurance Against A Chinese Financial Meltdown
Selling insurance against a financial crisis should not be difficult, five years after the last one nearly wrecked the global economy. But when it comes to China, the world's second-largest economy, ...
Watsa’s Fairfax Leads Eurobank Investor Group Betting on Greek Turnaround
International investors are to invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.8 billion) in Eurobank to become the bailed-out Greek bank's biggest shareholders in another sign of growing market confidence in Greece. ...
RMS CEO Shah Confronts Delays With Cat Modeling Platform Rollout
RMS launched its Exceedance 2014 conference in Washington, D.C. on April 14 with a hard sell of RMS(one), a cloud-based catastrophe risk management system the California company hopes will modernize ...
Beijing Breaks Into Top 10 City Rankings: A.T. Kearney
Beijing's ability to draw business investment helped vault it into the top 10 of cities with the greatest global appeal. The Chinese capital landed at eighth of 84 municipalities ranked by ...
QBE Confirms Strategic Review of U.S. Mid-Market Biz
QBE confirmed Monday that it is undertaking a strategic review of its U.S.-based middle market business. As Carrier Management reported in February, QBE Chief Executive Officer John Neal previously ...
Drought, Winter Storms Led March Insured Losses: Impact Forecasting
Severe drought, flooding and winter storms topped the list of natural perils in March, according to the latest Global Catastrophe Recap report from Aon Benfield's Impact Forecasting. The U.S. was hit ...