Health insurance: Anthem Inc., California's largest for-profit health insurer, reports its quarterly results Wednesday.
The insurer reported good growth in motor and commercial policy sales, but home insurance premiums were flat.
This month, Aetna Inc., the nation's largest health insurer, reported a quarterly loss after medical costs rose 15percentt.
With strong performances from France and Poland, the insurer reported operating profits of £2bn for 2013, up from £1.9bn in 2012.
But Direct Line is up 11.5p at 400.1p as the insurer reported better than expected full year profits of £507.5m.
Wellpoint, the nation's biggest health insurer, reported second-quarter sales of $14.5 billion, missing analysts' average estimate of $14.6 billion.
Because of ample investment income and profits from its workers' compensation business, the insurer reported net income of $233 million.
Cigna, the health insurer, reported a quarterly profit well above Wall Street estimates yesterday and raised its full-year forecast, sending shares 10percentt higher.
Assicurazioni Generali, Italy's largest insurer, reported first-half profit that beat analysts' estimates and agreed to sell its Nuova Tirrena unit for 1.25 billion euros ($1.71 billion).
Allianz, Europe's largest insurer, reported an almost tripling in fourth-quarter profit, helped by investment gains and improved earnings from banking and asset management.
And outside the technology sector, Cigna, the health insurer, reported that its fourth-quarter profit fell 3.7percentt and that its earnings for this year would fall below expectations.
