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15 hrs ago | Business Journal

Highwoods' expansive plans for MetLife's Cary campus?

Raleigh-based Highwoods Properties filed sketch plans Thursday detailing the company's plans to build a lakeside campus project off Weston Parkway , all but confirming what some are calling the "worst-kept secret in town." Though the documents do not identify MetLife Inc.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Real Estate, Highwoods Properties, Cary, NC, Raleigh, NC

21 hrs ago | Daily Political

MetLife Price Target Increased to $49.00 by Analysts at Raymond James

They currently have an outperform rating on the stock. MetLife traded down 1.88% on Wednesday, hitting $41.69. MetLife has a 52-week low of $27.60 and a 52-week high of $43.71. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $39.29. The company has a market cap of $45.651 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.77. The company also recently ... (more)

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Related Topix: Insurance, Apparel, Raymond Ltd

Thu May 23, 2013

Health News Digest

Oldest Boomers are Retiring at a Quick Rate

Now turning 67 years old, the first set of Baby Boomers, those born in 1946, continue to be myth-busters, according to a new study, Healthy, Retiring Rapidly and Collecting Social Security: The MetLife Report on the Oldest Boomers .

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Related Topix: Insurance, Personal Finance, Social Security, Long Term Care, Health

The Washington Post

Defaulted Manhattan Complex Rewarding Patient Money: Mortgages

Gary Delgado learned last week from a note slipped under his door that the rent for his two-bedroom apartment at Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town will jump by $920 to $4,220 a month in July.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Nomura Holding, Financial Services, Investment Services, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY, New York University, Insurance

Wed May 22, 2013

AmericanBankingNews.com

MetLife PT Raised to $49.00

The firm currently has an "outperform" rating on the stock. MetLife traded down 1.31% on Wednesday, hitting $42.26. MetLife has a 52-week low of $27.60 and a 52-week high of $43.71. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $39.02. The company has a market cap of $46.275 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 19.93. MetLife last issued its ... (more)

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Business Journal

MetLife to bring offshore reinsurance unit back to U.S.

MetLife, the nation's largest life insurer and a company slated to become one of the largest employers in Cary, has announced it will move its offshore reinsurance unit back to the United States.

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Business Journal

MetLife on track for 500 jobs in Charlotte this year

MetLife Inc. plans to have 500 workers on the ground in Charlotte by the end of this year.

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Related Topix: Insurance

Tue May 21, 2013

The Washington Post

MetLife Limits Offshore Reinsurer as N.Y. Targets - Alchemy'

MetLife Inc. said it would combine an offshore reinsurer with three U.S. life units after regulators began an investigation into the use of intra-company liability transfers, saying such arrangements could mask risk.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Business News

Thu May 16, 2013

The Morning Call

North Jersey homeowners consider renting out their space for 2014 Super Bowl

Al Wright, a 70-year-old widower, is pretty fussy about his space: "I want the spoons in the drawer lined up a certain way," he admitted.

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Related Topix: Insurance, us Travel, North America Travel, Travel, New Orleans Travel, HomeAway, Away, Housing

Wed May 15, 2013

New York Daily News

EXCLUSIVE: Tenants in Stuyvesant Town face big rent hikes after a judge's ruling

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EurekAlert!

Gladstone's Lennart Mucke wins MetLife Foundation award

Dr. Mucke is this year's recipient of the MetLife Foundation's Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Alzheimer's, Health, UC San Francisco, Medicine, Pharmacology

Tue May 14, 2013

Bloomberg

Aig Ceo Tells Grads Don't Cry About Economy, Deal With It

Robert Benmosche , the chief executive officer of insurer American International Group Inc.

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Related Topix: Insurance, American International Group, Alfred University, Amarillo, TX

The Washington Post

GE's Last Consumer Stand Gets $1 Billion Plus New Chief

General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt tried to sell off the company's appliance and lighting businesses in 2008, only to have the effort derailed by the financial crisis.

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Related Topix: 9, General Electric, Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Insurance, Fairfield, CT, Science / Technology

Mon May 13, 2013

Customer Interaction Solutions

MetLife to Hold Investor Day

MetLife, Inc. will hold an investor conference on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to approximately 12:30 p.m. . Presenters will include members of MetLife's senior management team.

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Seeking Alpha

Wal-Mart Providing Banking To The Unbanked

The spotlight is once again on Wal-Mart Stores and its financial services. A recent Bloomberg article has given details on the Federal Advisory Council meeting held in December 2012, which strongly opposes Wal-Mart's prepaid card business.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Big Box Retailers, Insurance, Financial Services, Travelers Express Company, Pnc Financial Services GroupThe, Banking

Sat May 11, 2013

InvestmentNews

Variable annuities adjust

Since the financial crisis, historic low interest rates have forced more and more carriers to impose higher fees.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Insurance

AmericanBankingNews.com

MetLife Price Target Raised to $46.00 at Deutsche Bank

The firm currently has a "hold" rating on the stock. A number of other firms have also recently commented on MET.

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Sys-Con Media

Strategy Behind Our Success, We Get in Early: MET, MBI, SINA and LYB

Give yourself an advantage in today's market. In order to become successful, you need to have information as it happens and understand how it plays out into future stock price.

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Related Topix: Media, Computers, Search Engines, Sina, Insurance

Fri May 10, 2013

Insurance News Net

Genworth Breaks Its LTCi Tie With AARP

Genworth has made it official. Effective June 1, it will cease selling AARP-branded long-term care insurance through its Genworth Life Insurance Co.

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Related Topix: Health, AARP, Long Term Care, Marketing, Insurance

GuruFocus.com

Leon Cooperman Thinks There Is No Shortage of Cheap Stocks Today

Cooperman says that there is no shortage of cheap stocks today. In the interview below he lets us in on a couple of smaller companies that he has been buying shares in.

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Related Topix: Insurance

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