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Health insurers have had a rough 2008. Health-care costs rose faster than the companies were banking on, which caused earnings to plummet and their stock prices to follow.

To paraphrase Albert Einstein, investing should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler .

A handful of the region's large public companies gained ground on Wall Street Tuesday.

Health insurance premiums for Centerville have increased 10 percent for each of the past three years, but the city found out this year that it could get worse.

Stocks sold off on Thursday in response to exceptionally overbought conditions and negative news from the housing market.

Revenue up, profits down -- that seems to be the mantra for health-insurance companies this quarter.

Futures for the Nasdaq were up 0.4 percent at 4:17 a.m. EDT on Friday while the the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P were both up 0.1 percent.

Coventry Health Care Inc. on July 25 reported second-quarter net earnings of $83.2 million, or 55 cents per share, compared to net earnings of $151.3 million, or 96 cents per share, in the year-ago period.

I think I've figured out why analysts have been unable to accurately forecast health plan financials - they don't know what questions to ask.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday's session are Legg Mason, American Axle, T. Rowe Price, and ITT.

Managed care is one of the worst-performing industries this year, posting a 33% decline through July 10.

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July 10, 2008 Thursday 12:15 PM EST SECTION: NEWS & COMMENTARY; Healthcare LENGTH: 367 words HEADLINE: Health insurers hit in wake of Medicare bill's passage BYLINE: Russ Britt, MarketWatch ...

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Ouch! How'd the market take the news? Shares dropped another 2% yesterday, bringing the total year-to-date drop to a whopping 56%. Fellow health insurance companies haven't fared much better; Humana and ...

A day after sector-wide gains lifted the nation's health insurers, the carriers tumbled into the red Thursday after an analyst issued dire warnings about the industry's prospects.

That sound you heard on Wall Street on July 2 was a tentative sigh of relief upon UnitedHealth Group's announcement that it was cutting its 2008 profit outlook by 16% - a move widely expected by investors - and ...

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Coventry Health Care, Inc. lowered sharply its operating earnings outlook for the second quarter and fiscal 2008, citing unexpectedly high costs, including higher than expected claims in its Medicare Advantage ...