April 24, 2012

In the last decade, before Bo Xilai’s downfall, his family, including his and his wife’s siblings, quietly amassed a fortune estimated at more than $160 million.

A commission of energy specialists formed by Mexico’s Congress has begun to question where and how the company drills for oil.

Wal-Mart’s stock slipped as investors reacted to a bribery scandal at the retailer’s Mexican subsidiary and a report that an internal investigation was quashed at corporate headquarters.

MetLife on Monday became the third big life insurer to settle regulatory accusations of failing to keep track of policyholder deaths, trapping money that should have gone promptly to the beneficiaries.

After compiling a database of customary rates for medical procedures, many insurance companies switched to a calculation based on Medicare rates, meaning higher costs for patients.