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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.

Filed under: Major movement , Earnings reports , Bad news , BB and T , Options , Technical Analysis BB&T stock is trading lower today after the company reported third-quarter earnings this morning, posting a profit of $152 million or 23 cents per share .

BB&T Corp ., Atlanta's fourth-largest bank, reported its third-quarter profit plunged nearly 57 percent as it continued to weather negative housing and credit issues.

U.S. financial stocks gave back opening gains on Monday morning as shares of North Carolina's BB&T fell, dragging other regional banks lower too after the firm said a large provision for credit losses almost halved its third-quarter profit.

The wave of bank failures washing over the U.S. is creating opportunities for regional lenders that are strong enough to pick up the debris, with help from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are Apple Inc., Texas Instruments Inc.

Encouraging earnings reports from heavyweights such as Intel Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

U.S. Bancorp and BB&T Corporation announced today the signing of a definitive agreement for U.S. Bank National Association, U.S. Bancorpa s lead bank, to purchase approximately $800 million in deposits and certain branch locations of BB&Ta s Nevada banking operations.

Last Thursday, John A. Allison visited Wichita to address the annual economic outlook conference produced by the Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University.

Three North Carolina business stalwarts, led by BB&T Corp. Chairman John Allison, will be inducted into the N.C. Business Hall of Fame on Nov.

The N.C. Business Hall of Fame said yesterday that John Allison, the chairman and retired chief executive of BB&T Corp., will be one of three members of the Class of 2009.

Grandbridge Real Estate Capital LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of BB&T Corporation and one of the nation's largest full-service commercial and multifamily mortgage banking firms, announced the following: Grandbridge has acquired Dallas, Texas-based real estate finance and advisory firm Quantum First Capital .

The S&P 500 posted its best third quarter performance since the breakup of The Beatles but fell for a second successive week after the unemployment rate rose to a level last seen in 1983.

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Grandbridge Real Estate Capital , a Charlotte, N.C.-based commercial and multifamily mortgage-banking unit of BB&T Corp.

The major indexes put forth a valiant effort to buck the bad jobs data but ended the last session of the week on the down side.

The financial crisis lead to dividend cuts amongst several prominent dividend payers such as Bank of America , US Bancorp and BB&T Corp.

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