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1 hr ago | Business Journal

HomeStreet stock rises on first full trading day

's shares rose on its first full day of trading on Nasdaq Monday , following its initial public offering of stock late in the trading day on Friday.

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Related Topix: Insurance

5 hrs ago | MarketWatch

Stocks to Watch: Stocks to Watch Tuesday: Avon, Goodyear

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd., MetLife Inc., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Omnicom Group Inc.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Avon Products, Household Products, Insurance

12 hrs ago | Information Technology

BUYINS.NET: FTI, WSH, ACC, MET, STEC, GTY Expected To Be Down After Next Earnings Releases

BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released Tuesday, February 14th 2012 and determining how the stocks have performed After their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and June earnings reports.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, FMC Technologies, Energy, Oil & Gas, INC, Video Games, Insurance, Willis Group Holdings, Semiconductors, SimpleTech, Electronics

Sun Feb 12, 2012

Benzinga

Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 13

Symbols : AMAT , CMCSA , DISCA , DTV , NTAP , NVDA , A , ANF , APA , AVP , CBS , CPB , DE , DPS , GM , GT , HNZ , JWN , MAR , MET , SJM , VFC , VMC , WM Tags : earnings expectations , CBS , General Motors , Comcast , MetLife , Avon Products , Waste Management , Dr Pepper Snapple Group , NetApp , NVIDIA , DIRECTV , Nordstrom , abercrombie & fitch , ... (more)

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Related Topix: Scientific Instruments, Electronics, APA Optics, CBS, Media, Television, Showtime Networks, Automakers, General Motors, Cable & Satellite, Comcast, Insurance

Patch.com

Council Hires Police Director, Car Thief Arrested

Hightstown Names New Police Director The Hightstown council unanimously approved the appointment of a Lacey Township police veteran as Highstown's first civilian police director Monday.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Westwood, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, East Windsor, NJ

Sat Feb 11, 2012

New Rochelle Talk

Communication Workers Union Stages 'Sweetheart' Protest Outside...

Hundreds of members of the Communication Workers of America came to New Rochelle last night to send a tongue-in-cheek "Happy Valentine's Day" greeting to Hugh B. Price, an Independent Director on the Verizon corporate board who resides in New Rochelle, NY.

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Related Topix: New Rochelle, NY, Insurance, National Urban League, Charitable Organizations

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Seeking Alpha

5 Core Stocks To Amp Up Your Portfolio's Yield

Investors are always in search of cheap stocks. Below, I have identified and analyzed five stocks that are trading at a discount to their competitors and offer decent divided yields, too.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Banking, JP Morgan Chase , Barclays plc, KeyCorp, Financial Services, US Bancorp, Insurance

InsuranceTech

Why Do Insurance Companies Excel at Developing Women Executives?

Insurance companies and other financial services companies dominate the National Association for Female Executives' 2012 Top 50 Companies for Executive Women ranking.

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Related Topix: Insurance, New York Life Insurance, Prudential Financial, Allstate

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Financial Stocks Attracting Trading Activity Post Earnings

Prudential Financial Inc.A reported its results for the fourth quarter.A Net income for Prudential Financial Inc.

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Related Topix: Prudential Financial, Insurance, Financial Markets, ING Group, Torchmark Corporation, Financial Services, Lincoln National

Reuters

Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 2100 GMT on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Insurance

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

MetLife Inc. Fourth Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek

S&P 500 component MetLife, Inc. will unveil its latest earnings on Tuesday, February 14, 2012.

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Related Topix: Insurance

Reuters

UPDATE 1-EverBank to buy MetLife Bank unit

Financial company EverBank Financial Corp said it will buy MetLife Bank's warehouse finance business, a unit of MetLife Inc, in a bid to increase its assets by $400 million.

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Related Topix: Insurance

Bloomberg

Hartford's CEO McGee Resists Demands From Wall Street to Break Up Insurer

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Liam McGee , the ex-banker hired in 2009 to restore profits, is resisting renewed pressure from Wall Street to split apart the 201-year-old insurer.

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Related Topix: Hartford Financial Services Group, Insurance, Goldman Sachs, Financial Services, Investment Services, US News

Wed Feb 08, 2012

Bloomberg

Prudential Financial Profit Advances to $686 Million on Gains Outside U.S.

Prudential Financial Inc. , the life insurer that expanded in Japan through acquisitions, said fourth-quarter profit more than tripled on non-U.S. earnings and narrower losses from investments and derivatives.

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Related Topix: Prudential Financial, Insurance, Newark, NJ, American International Group, Financial Markets

Seeking Alpha

MetLife, Lincoln Still Have At Least 30% Upside

Despite disappointing global economic growth, insurers have been on a surge of late.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Financial Services, Lincoln National, Mortgage, Personal Finance

OhNoTheyDidnt

Backlash against Gisele BA1 4ndchen starts in Boston

One of New York's Super Bowl winners has got some advice for Gisele Bundchen about how to be magnanimous in the face of defeat - as animosity in Boston following the Patriots' Super Bowl loss grew.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Pop/Rock, John Lennon

The Laurinburg Exchange Online

Norton Insurance Agency appointed

"Norton Insurance has clearly demonstrated its professionalism and business expertise in Laurinburg, and MetLife Auto & Home is proud to be its partner," said Paul Gavin, vice president of sales distribution for MetLife Auto & Home.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Laurinburg, NC

Tue Feb 07, 2012

411mania.com

Latest on WrestleMania 29 Plans

Currently the frontrunner is Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey with AXXESS and other such events taking place in New York City.

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Related Topix: East Rutherford, NJ, Insurance

The Hartford Courant

MetLife's Cartoon Ads Are The Latest In Nostalgia Marketing

MetLife 's most recent TV commercial opens with Charlie Brown strolling alongside Lucy, Linus and other Peanuts characters into a sun-soaked grassy field, a slightly hazy, idyllic scene that could pass for financial stability, the afterlife or California.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Marketing, Startups, Facebook, Twitter, University of Minnesota

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

2 Financial Companies Reporting Earnings Very Soon

Lincoln National CorpA will unveil its latest earnings on Tuesday, February 7, 2012.A The average estimate of analysts is for net income of $1 per share, a rise of 22% from the company's actual earnings for the same quarter a year ago.

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Related Topix: Insurance, Financial Services, Lincoln National, Aegon NV, Conseco, Kansas City Life Insurance, Torchmark Corporation

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