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Trader Opens a Straddle Position on Aetna (AET) in Expectation of a Strong Move
This volume is more than five times the security's average daily trading volume, according to WhatsTrading.com. Drilling down on the action, we find that the July 22.50 call liquidated approximately 10,000 contracts, pushing its open interest down to 19,880 contracts.
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NEW YORK-- --Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA' rating to the City of Lynchburg , Virginia's approximately $53.7 million general obligation public improvement bonds, consisting of $46.1 million - WESTERLY, R.I.-- --Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc.
Stocks on the move: KeyCorp, MetroPCS, Star Scientific, Tenet
Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading this morning.
Identity Thieves Target Job Seekers
Never mind landing the job. Now people on the lookout for employment have another cause for worry: identity theft.
Measure to Help 'Underwater' Homeowners Stirs Critics
A new UF study raises concerns about ethanol's water demand in Florida. Four crops under consideration are very thirsty.
Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 5:11 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 5:11 a.m. Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican taking a lead role in the health care debate, sent a letter Thursday to the insurer Aetna asking for details about a policy it sold to a man in Texas that left him owing nearly $200,000 in medical bills.
Weekly Guru Bargains Highlights: Apollo Group Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc, Hess Corp. ...
APOL , TWC , HES , POM , AET APOL , TWC , HES , POM , AET Last week's top five guru bargain stocks were Apollo Group Inc.
Doctors Increasingly Perform Online Visits
Main Category: Primary Care / General Practice Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 "This year, 39 percent of doctors said they'd communicated with patients online, up from just 16 percent five years earlier, according to health-information firm Manhattan Research, a unit of Decision Resources Inc," the Wall Street ...
Health stocks climb as senators cut bill costs
Health-care stocks closed higher Thursday after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said U.S. senators found a way to slash the price tag of a sweeping health-care reform bill to below $1 trillion over 10 years.
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Senator: Use of faulty Ingenix data 'pervasive'
Congressional investigators claim two-thirds of the U.S. health insurance industry, including several with operations in Hartford, used a Rocky Hill firm's faulty database that overcharged patients for seeing doctors outside their insurance network, costing Americans billions of dollars in inflated medical bills.
'Safe Harbor' Is Just That for Humana in Securities Class Action
With a few exceptions, the spring of 2009 wasn't a particularly happy time for securities class action plaintiffs.
Aetna, CarMax, Walgreen, Central European Media, Medis: U.S. Equity Movers
Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are as of 2:05 p.m. in New York.
Aetna Launches a oeConsumer Portala in California
Aetna announced today that California residents looking for individual health plans will now be able to use Aetna's "Consumer Portal" a simple, easy to use online quoting and application system available at www.aetnaindividual.com . Consumers using this new system can click "Get a Quote" to receive a quote on benefits plans in their area within ...
Aetna Wins Contracts for Central, Eastern and Western Missouri ...
WELT ONLINE, Germany Aetna has been notified that the state of Missouri healthnet Division awarded a Medicaid managed care contract to Missouri Care, an Aetna health plan, in Central, Eastern and Western regions of Missouri.
The PSLRA's safe harbor for forward-looking statements has a checkered history in the courts, with some judges refusing to apply it as written.
Aetna Wins Contracts for Central, Eastern and Western Missouri Medicaid
Aetna has been notified that the state of Missouri HealthNet Division awarded a Medicaid managed care contract to Missouri Care, an Aetna health plan, in Central, Eastern and Western regions of Missouri.
Market Winners & Losers: Cigna, Harman International
The markets dropped for the second day in a row as concerns about the strength of economic recovery continue to swirl.
Obama Seeks Doctors' Support But Opposes Caps on Malpractice Awards
President Barack Obama warned doctors Monday the U.S. healthcare system was a ticking time bomb and urged them to support his overhaul, which includes a public insurance plan that many of them view with skepticism.
Court dismisses investor lawsuit against Aetna
A Pennsylvania federal judge has thrown out a two-year-old securities suit against Hartford health insurer Aetna Inc ., which accused current and former executives of making false statements about pricing strategies in an effort to boost the stock price.