The health-insurance excise tax that’s part of a Senate Finance Committee bill has been touted as a tax on “Cadillac” plans, but it might affect employers who think of their plan as more of a Chevy with a few nice…

Bill Greiner, UMB Bank’s chief market strategist, predicts that the economy will recover in 2010 but says the stock market remains a dangerous place for now. The problem with the market is a lack of visibility about the financial system’s…

UMB Bank won’t apply for help from the federal government’s $700 billion bank-bailout fund. That’s the word from W. Thomas Chulick, chief executive of UMB’s St. Louis operations.

The government is using $250 billion of the bailout money to buy preferred…

Bill Greiner, chief investment officer for UMB Bank, says that the U.S. economy will be in recession for most of the next year and that unemployment will exceed 8 percent before it’s over.

His downbeat assessment of the economy came during…