Broker Regulation

They huddle outside office buildings and they can't satisfy their nicotine cravings by lighting up on planes and trains, but now smokers could be getting a break from an unlikely source.

Some random thoughts on the drive in this morning.

U.S. regulators have labeled insurer American International Group Inc. and General Electric Co.'s finance arm as potential threats to the financial system, designations that bring stricter government oversight.

Framing a new argument against President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional GOP leaders called Tuesday for a delay in the law's requirement that individual Americans carry health insurance.

Lawmakers complained that transparency was becoming an ever greater issue with the huge state exchange.

A trade group for Catholic hospitals says it can accept the Obama administration's compromise on birth control coverage.