Markets
Bernanke Challenge: Prime Markets For Policy Turn
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is preparing for a most sensitive task: telling jittery investors who have grown accustomed to the U.S. central bank's ultra-easy monetary policies that things ...Euro Zone Economy To Shrink Again In 2013; Recession Persists
The euro zone will not return to growth until 2014, the European Commission said on Friday, reversing its prediction for an end to recession this year and blaming a lack of bank lending and record ...Moody’s Cuts UK’s Aaa Credit Rating
Moody's Investors Service on Friday cut the United Kingdom's credit rating to Aa1 from Aaa, citing weakness in the nation's medium-term growth outlook that it now expects to extend for a number of ...
Construction Insurance Opportunities On The Rise
Rising construction employment and private projects—residential and nonresidential—mean improved growth prospects ahead for commercial insurers, says Robert Hartwig, the president of the ...
Economic Indicators For Brazil (2010-2013)
With a gross domestic product of $2.42 trillion, Brazil is already the world's sixth largest economy—bigger than the UK. A diversity of trading partners, as well as a mix of agriculture, raw ...
Housing Collapse Drives Premiums Declines
Nevada was one of the states that was Ground Zero for the housing collapse, which explains why commercial lines premiums evaporated in the states, according to Robert Hartwig, president of the ...
Agriculture, Energy Drive Commercial Premium Growth
"Riding an energy boom, an agricultural boom and a natural resources boom," North Dakota had the biggest jump in commercial lines direct premiums written over the period 2006-2011, according to ...
Insurers to NFL: Defense Denied. At What Cost?
Defense Denied. That was the collective response last year from the casualty insurance industry to the National Football League and NFL Properties (the marketing arm of the league)—defendants in a ...