US insurance company AllState Corporation is creating 650 jobs at its technology division in Northern Ireland, providing a welcome boost to employment in the region

DETROIT (Reuters) - Dan Akerson is pushing General Motors Co to build cars that the U.S. automaker's top executive hopes will attract a target demographic: his grandkids.

* CEO Akerson: GM poised to make "real money" from OnStar

* CEO Akerson: GM poised to make "real money" from OnStar

* CEO Akerson: GM poised to make "real money" from OnStar

* CEO Akerson: GM poised to make "real money" from OnStar

* CEO Akerson: GM poised to make "real money" from OnStar

* CEO Akerson: GM poised to make "real money" from OnStar

The Allstate (ALL)Q1 2013 Earnings CallMay 02, 20139:00 am ETExecutivesRobert BlockThomas J. Wilson - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman of Executive Committee, Member of Equity Award Committee, Chairman of The Allstate Insurance

* Expects relatively modest rate increases in auto insurance

May 1 (Reuters) - Home and auto insurer Allstate Corp's quarterly profit beat Wall Street estimates as rate hikes allowed the company to earn more from premiums.

May 1 (Reuters) - Home and auto insurer Allstate Corp reported a 7.4 percent decline in quarterly profit, hurt by bigger losses from catastrophes.

Annual vacations, regular pay increases, quality healthcare, and basic job security are things now only manageable for the upper class, according to a one-third of those surveyed in a recent Allstate-National Journal Heartland Monitor poll.

With only days to go before it releases its first-quarter earnings, Allstate is following the pack in trading.

Leading up to Allstate's (ALL) announcement of its first quarter earnings on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, analysts have become more bullish as expectations have improved over the past month from $1.25 per share to the current projection of earnings o

LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Allstate, the largest publicly traded U.S home and auto insurer, has returned to the catastrophe bond market with a $250 million offering, five years after investors lost...

More drivers can now qualify for a discount based on driving habits.

Wall Street ratings agencies set the tone for today's stock market.

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 2/26/13, Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.25, payable on 4/1/13. As a percentage of ALL's recent stock price of $46.64, this di

The insurer says in a securities filing that it has about 9,300 exclusive agencies, down from about 10,000 in 2011.The number of insurance agencies exclusively selling Allstate Corp. policies is down, and the number of independent agents selling Alls

Residential Capital LLC is aiming to block American International Group Inc. (AIG), Allstate Corp. (ALL) and other mortgage-securities investors who are seeking equal treatment for their fraud claims in the mortgage lender's bankruptcy.

Allstate Corporation (ALL) announced its quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share, an increase of about 14% over its prior dividend in November of 22 cents. The increased dividend will be paid on Apr 1, 2013, to the shareholders of record as on Feb 2

The Allstate (ALL)Q4 2012 Earnings CallFebruary 07, 20139:00 am ETExecutivesRobert BlockThomas J. Wilson - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman of Executive Committee, Member of Equity Award Committee, Chairman of The Allstate Insur

Here's your Cheat Sheet to earnings...

Allstate (NYSE: ALL) reported a 45% drop in its fourth-quarter profit and lifted its quarterly dividend to $0.25 per share from $0.22 per share.Allstate's quarterly net income declined to $394 million, or $0.81 per share, from $712 million, or $1.40

NEW YORK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Allstate Corp : * Shares were up 3.1 percent after the bell following therelease of its results.

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Home and auto insurer Allstate Corp's quarterly profit fell 45 percent, hurt by losses fromsuperstorm Sandy, but the company raised its quarterly dividendand announced a new $1...

Tomorrow's data includes mortgage applications and oil stocks; earnings include CVS, Visa, Time Warner, and Allstate.

Tomorrow after the close Allstate Corp will report 4th quarter earnings and option traders are betting they will be good. Yesterday one trader bought 10,000 February 45 calls for $0.60 with the stock trading at 43.93. This is a bullish bet that Allst

NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Allstate Corp is amongcompanies likely to miss Wall Street earnings expectations whenit reports next week, while Archer Daniels Midland Co could beat, Thomson Reuters StarMine forecasts show.

Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today: As soon as the Super Bowl ends, this ad from Allstate will play in the first commercial break. The Leo Burnett-created spot stars the beloved bad boy Mayhem, who it turns out is responsib

Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today: Two and a half years since his conception and Allstate's Mayhem is still going strong. And apparently he's created enough debauchery for two. Leo Burnett's latest creative shows Dean

Madison Avenue isn't just made up of Mad Men. Women have had a hand in creating some of the most iconic ads in America, from the Alfac Duck to Old Spice's "man your man could smell like" to Allstate's Mayhem. And yet they only make up 3 percent of cr

Finding itself in quite the PR pickle last week, Allstate pulled an ad thanking agents who lived in Sandy's path and still worked to satisfy customers in the storm's wake. Why yank a feel good spot out of rotation? Because the owners of one of the de

Although Allstate originally maintained that it hadn’t done anything wrong by using the image of a home ravaged by Sandy in an ad without obtaining permission from the couple who owned it, the insurance company says it’ll pull the image o

Jan 4 - Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BBB-' rating to The AllstateCorporation's (Allstate) $500 million subordinated debentures.Allstate issued $500 million of fixed-to-floating rate subordinated...

A Staten Island couple is already having more than a rough go of it after their house was devastated during Hurricane Sandy. But as they’re trying to pick up the pieces, they say their insurance company, AllState, is not only low-balling their

When an AllState ad paying tribute to its 1,000 employees who put customers first during Hurricane Sandy even when their own houses were ravaged played on Thanksgiving Day, Shelia and Dominic Traina didn't get that warm and fuzzy feeling that the ins

Jan 3 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it assigned its'BBB' debt rating to Allstate Corp.'s (NYSE:ALL) junior subordinateddebentures up to $1 billion maturing in 2053. We expect the debentures toqualify for intermediate content tr

Ford Motor Company, General Electric Capital and insurers MetLife and Allstate set to issue corporate bonds in deals that could reach a total of $10bn

Among the companies in focus today are Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Arbitron Inc. and Allstate.

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Allstate Corp said its boardapproved a new share buyback program of up to $1 billion, to befunded by issuing subordinated debentures.

The insurance company's estimated cost of the superstorm is well below the estimate from rival Allstate. The two companies are roughly matched in market share in the states that were hit by Sandy.

The Allstate Corp. said Wednesday it had an estimated $1.08 billion in catastrophe losses in October, mostly the result of damage to homes and autos from Superstorm Sandy.