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MBIA Inc. Is Battered By Competition, Subprime Issues
I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? — V.R., via the Internet The world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds tied to subprime mortgages and derivatives. It...Tags: Wells Fargo & Co., Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated, Stock Broking, Morningstar Incorporated, MBIA Incorporated
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Health Insurer Stocks Tumble
Courant Staff WriterSome health insurer stocks fell sharply Thursday after Goldman Sachs downgraded Aetna and Health Net from neutral to "sell," stoking broader investor concern about how much and how soon profit margins will shrink in the industry's current downturn....Tags: Aetna Incorporated, Cigna Corporation, Employers, Private Health Care, Earnings
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Many emerging nations bound up by inflation
Associated PressNEW YORK—There is nowhere to hide from inflation. Prices in one in four countries, many of them in emerging markets, are accelerating at a double-digit pace, which puts them at least 21/2 times the 4 percent annual U.S. headline inflation rate,...Tags: Federal Reserve, Productivity, Central Bank, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Inflation and Deflation
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UnitedHealth to settle lawsuits on backdated stock options
UnitedHealth Group Inc. agreed to the biggest settlement of lawsuits involving backdated stock options and said the company would trim 4,000 jobs after its membership fell and expenses for providing medical coverage rose. UnitedHealth, the largest U.S....Tags: Stock Options
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Stocks tumble again
Of Bloomberg NewsStocks tumbled Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a bear market, after oil rose to a record and steelmakers and coal producers retreated on concern the economic slump will worsen. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slid to its lowest...Tags: Stock Activities, Financial Markets, Weather Reports, Metal and Mineral, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry
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Insurer Tackles Several Issues
Associated PressUnitedHealth Group Inc. cleared its decks of bad news on Wednesday, announcing a lower profit outlook, a restructuring that will trim 4,000 jobs and a $900 million payout to settle a class-action lawsuit over options backdating. UnitedHealth said its...Tags: Aetna Incorporated, Shareholders, Pension and Welfare, Corporate Officers, Employees
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UnitedHealth to settle options suits, cut jobs
From Chicago Tribune news servicesUnitedHealth Group Inc. agreed to the biggest settlement of lawsuits involving backdated stock options and said it would trim 4,000 jobs, about 5 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring. The large U.S. health insurer said Wednesday that it...Tags: Stock Options
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Confidence wanes at Japanese companies
Associated Press WriterConfidence at major Japanese manufacturers has slumped to an almost five-year low and large corporations project a significant drop in profits for the half-year through September, a key central bank survey showed Tuesday. But other sections in the...Tags: Bank of America Corp., Lehman Brothers Holdings Incorporated, Central Bank, Foreign Exchange Market, Exports
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UnitedHealth to cut 4,000 jobs, settle options suits
Associated PressUnitedHealth Group Inc. will cut at least 4,000 jobs, or 5 percent of its work force, in a restructuring and warned yesterday that a weaker environment and higher costs will cut into profits this year. Chief executive Stephen J. Hemsley said in a...Tags: Government, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Retirement, Alaska
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S.C. firm acquires Highway Equipment in Orlando
Continental Engines, a Greenville, S.C.-based company that specializes in the sale and service of emergency generators and industrial gas and diesel engines, has acquired Highway Equipment & Supply Co., a longtime Orlando company with headquarters on West...Tags: Internet, News Corp., Tampa, Transportation, Microsoft Corp.
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