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A Raleigh public relations firm with high-profile clients in the Triad will cease operations Friday.

More than half of regional banks missed third-quarter profit forecasts as the recession and tight credit conditions continued to weigh on these lenders, according to an earnings wrap Monday.

BB&T Corp . has pledged $1 million to the University of West Georgia 's Richards College of Business to create the Center for Ethics and Free Enterprise and the BB&T Lectures in Free Enterprise Series.

BB&T Insurance Services , the nation's seventh largest insurance broker, has raised its southwest Florida profile with the purchase of Fort Myers-based Oswald Tripp and Company Inc., the Raleigh-based BB&T subsidiary said Tuesday.

BB&T Insurance Services has expanded its southwest Florida operation with the acquisition of Oswald Trippe and Company Inc.

The major indexes kicked off November with a volatile trading session that managed to end positive.

Positive reports on manufacturing and home sales sent stock prices higher Monday although the market closed below the best levels of the session.

BB&T Corp. said yesterday that Kelly King, its chief executive, will be a presenter at the BancAnalysts Association of Boston Inc.

BB&T Corp . recently named Eddie Hoff its area executive for the greater Huntsville area to oversee daily operations of 10 financial centers in the region.

The directors of BB&T Corporation on Tuesday elected K. David Boyer Jr., co-founder and chief executive officer of information services company GlobalWatch Technologies Inc., to the corporate board.

More than a year into the financial crisis, the carnage caused by high unemployment has expanded into states whose economic health had been taken for granted.

We're in the midst of the largest recession in almost a century, barely faced down the unraveling of the global economic system and watched a $8 billion housing bubble settle down around the heads of 16 million unemployed Americans, and the friggin' chairman of BB&T Corp.

Birmingham banks stocks were down Friday after a tumultuous week of earnings announcements.

The Washington, D.C. office of Hines, the international real estate firm, announced that Branch Banking and Trust Company has signed a long-term lease for 140,000 square feet of office space at the 951,616-square-foot Riverfront Plaza in downtown Richmond.

When Bank of America executives were asked recently for specifics on a repayment of bailout funds, CFO Joe Price repeated that the bank is ready, but the decision is now in regulators' hands.

The free-enterprise system is under attack as government gets bigger and more intrusive, and the stakes never have been higher, speakers and panelists said yesterday at the Virginia Chamber of Commerce 2009 Conference on Virginia's Future.

BB&T Corporation reported $157 million in net income for the third quarter compared with $362 million earned during the third quarter of 2008.

BB&T Corporation October 19, 2009 11:00 am ET Executives Analysts Greg Ketron a ' Citigroup Adam Barkstrom a ' Sterne Agee & Leach Jamie Peters a ' Morningstar Jefferson Harralson a ' Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Heather Wolfe a ' UBS Vivek Juneja a ' J.P. Morgan Presentation Operator Welcome to the BB&T Corporation third quarter earnings 2009 ...

An increase in customers struggling to make housing-related loan payments hampered BB&T Corp.

BB&T Corp. tightened its market-share grip in Forsyth County and the Winston-Salem metropolitan statistical area in 2009, according to data released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.