The bill will shore up the state's retirement system, requiring all public employees to contribute more toward their retirement and new hires to work longer.

Hartford also is looking to sell or pursue other options for its individual life, Woodbury Financial Services and retirement plans, but will continue to write new business in those areas

A Dutch pension fund says it will pursue a claim for damages from the Netherlands' Central Bank after a court ruled the authority wrongly ordered the fund to sell most of its gold holdings in 2010.

A Democratic proposal to help job-seekers with bad credit has been rejected in Colorado amid business complaints that a well-intentioned proposal to ban employer credit checks would burden employers.

Commissioner Karla Davis of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development has warned the state's 56,000 unemployment claimants that they will soon be required to prove they are looking for work.

An Associated Press analysis of documents from Wells Fargo shows CEO John Stumpf received $17.9 million in compensation for 2011, compared with $17.6 million in 2010.

Fiat says CEO Sergio Marchionne, who also heads Chrysler, received total compensation of euro14.45 million ($18.87 million) last year, mostly in stock options.

Shares of MetLife Inc. tumbled Wednesday after it was named as one of the four banks to fail Federal Reserve stress tests designed to determine whether banks are strong enough to survive a severe economic downturn.