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2 hrs ago | SchaeffersResearch.com Daily Market Blog

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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Related Topix: Insurance, Financial Markets, Personal Finance, Day Trading

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Business Wire

Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing

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.

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Related Topix: Public Relations, Financial Markets, Westerly, RI, Banking, Financial Services, Washington Trust Bancorp, Insurance, Transportation, Trucking, Celadon Group

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Contra Costa Times

Stocks on the move: KeyCorp, MetroPCS, Star Scientific, Tenet

Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in U.S. trading this morning.

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Related Topix: KeyCorp, Banking, Financial Services, Tobacco, Star Scientific, Medicine, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Financial Markets, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Insurance, Humana

Mon Jul 06, 2009

BusinessWeek

Identity Thieves Target Job Seekers

Never mind landing the job. Now people on the lookout for employment have another cause for worry: identity theft.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Social Security, Personal Finance

Sun Jul 05, 2009

Florida Trend

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.

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Related Topix: Florida, Insurance, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Miami Metro, Tampa Metro

Fri Jul 03, 2009

HendersonvilleNews.com

DEL.ICIO.US

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.

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Related Topix: Social Software, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Chuck Grassley, Insurance

GuruFocus.com

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.

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Related Topix: Apollo Group, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Oil & Gas, Amerada Hess, Pepco Holdings, Energy, Insurance

Wed Jul 01, 2009

MediLexicon

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 ...

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Related Topix: Biotech, Healthcare Industry, Insurance, Health

Mon Jun 29, 2009

MarketWatch

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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Related Topix: Insurance, Coventry Health Care, Humana

Sat Jun 27, 2009

Business Wire

Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing

Turn off that old fashioned press release and tune in to Smart News Release . Photos, video and more put your news center stage.

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Related Topix: Hartford Metro, Insurance

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Hartford Business

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.

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Related Topix: Insurance, UnitedHealth Group, US Politics, John Rockefeller, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Legal Times

'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.

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Related Topix: Humana, Insurance

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Bloomberg

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.

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Related Topix: Auto Dealers, Retail, CarMax Group, Insurance, Medis Technologies, Electronics, Financial Services, Television, Central European Media Enterprises, Media, Alcoa, Mining, Century Aluminum, Metals

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Earth Times

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 ...

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Related Topix: Insurance

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Joplin

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.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Medicaid, Health

Sat Jun 20, 2009

The 10b-5 Daily

The Safe Harbor At Work

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.

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Related Topix: Insurance

Fri Jun 19, 2009

Earth Times

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.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Medicaid, Health, Kansas City, MO

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Fox News

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.

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Related Topix: Harman International Ind, Cigna, Insurance, Electronics, Telecom, Qwest Communications Intl, IT Services, Business News

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Insurance Journal West

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Healthcare Law, Law, Insurance

Hartford Business

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.

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Related Topix: Insurance

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