Buyback

MetLife Inc. and General Electric Co. have tweaked the terms of a deal in which the U.S. life insurer is selling $7 billion in bank deposits to the conglomerate, a move MetLife said would change the regulator in charge of approving the deal. The Office...

The Hartford on Wednesday reported a second-quarter loss of $101 million as it bought back investments made by German insurer Allianz during the financial crisis in 2008. The Hartford had a $587 million loss related to buying $2.43 billion in outstanding...

American companies are getting a bit hesitant about buying back their own stock. Share repurchases by large companies fell in the first three months of this year, the second consecutive quarter of declining buybacks, according to Standard & Poor’...

FORTUNE -- Here's another example of how on Wall Street for the big banks it's heads they win, tails they win. Even as Facebook's shares dropped, causing losses for regular investors, Morgan and other underwriters of the company's IPO likely racked up...

Speculation that governments in the U.S. and Europe will act to help their economies sent stocks surging to their best day this year.  Atlanta Federal Reserve President Dennis Lockhart said in a speech that weak job growth over the past two months...

Apple on Monday announced plans for much of the $97.1 billion in cash it has accumulated from massive iPod, iPhone, iPadand Macintosh sales. The company said it would begin giving shareholders a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share sometime its fiscal...

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple, already the world's most valuable company, hit the $600 billion level for the first time Tuesday. Only one other company has been worth $600 billion — Apple's old sparring partner Microsoft Corp. It reached that...

Apple today announced what many were expecting, given its huge war chest of around $100 billion in cash: future stock dividends and a stock repurchasing program. The company released the news in a conference call early Monday. It's amassed a huge pile of...

Baltimore-based FTI Consulting Inc. said it increased profits by more than 50 percent last year, driven in part by strong growth in its business consulting divisions in Latin America and Asia. The company reported net income of $103.9 million last year,...