Freddie Mac's archives contain weekly, monthly and annual historic data for fixed (15-year and 30-year) and adjustable rate mortgages. They will help you show clients todays historic opportunity to refinance an existing mortgage at lower rates, thus freeing up more cash flow for investment or insurance.

Aides to participants in House-Senate talks on renewing President Barack Obama's signature payroll tax cut say negotiators have made significant progress and that an agreement could come as early as Tuesday.

Prudential Retirement today announced its first longevity reinsurance transaction of 2012. Under the terms of the deal, Prudential Retirement will provide reinsurance of longevity risk to the U.K.'s Rothesay Life, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

In a panel at the GE What Works Summit on American Competitiveness, policy and business leaders recognized that the 200,000 middle-market companies in the U.S. have untapped potential to create jobs and grow the economy.