Manulife Financial News

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Eldorado Gold Corp. . Miner. Down three cents, or 0.25 per cent, at $11.96 on 6,700,702 shares.

Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange : Manulife Financial Corp.

Keith Hartstein, president and CEO of John Hancock Funds, has announced plans to retire on Sept.

A.M. Best Co. has assigned a debt rating of "bbb" to the recently issued CAD 250 million, 4.40% non-cumulative rate reset Class 1 shares Series 9 of Manulife Financial Corporation .

Manulife Financial Corp. . Insurer. Up 30 cents, or 2.73 per cent, at $11.29 on 5,295,810 shares.

Manulife Financial Corp and Metlife are among the companies that have submitted first round bids for ING's entire Asia life insurance business, sources said on Saturday, in what could be the largest Asia M&A insurance deal ever.

Carlyle could execute a lucrative departure from the Taiwanese Ta Chong Bank, if it and other major investors can divest Ta Chong to Yuanta Financial for T$37 billion , as is expected.

Manulife Financial , Metlife and Prudential are reportedly among the suitors set to place first-round bids today for ING's Asian life insurance unit.

Kinross Gold Corp. . Miner. Up 48 cents, or 6.47 per cent, at $7.90 on 16,183,990 shares.

Bombardier Inc. . Transportation equipment. Unchanged at $3.80 on 7,382,277 shares.

Bombardier Inc. . Transportation equipment. Up 27 cents, or 7.32 per cent, at $3.96 on 29,041,280 shares.

Bombardier Inc. . Transportation equipment. Down one cent, or 0.25 per cent, at $4.01 on 7,066,618 shares.

On Thursday, Manulife Financial Corporation reported its first quarter earnings and discussed the following topics in its earnings conference call.

The euro crisis just got a whole lot worse What Europe really needs is a return to free-floating sovereign currencies , says the Telegraph.

Manulife Financial Corp. Chief Executive Officer Donald Guloien said few companies are as 'well-positioned' as Canada 's largest insurer to benefit in Asia from a doubling of its middle-class population over the next decade.

Lundin Mining Corp. . Miner. Down three cents, or 0.62 per cent, at $4.80 on 11,284,085 shares.

Paul L. Rooney - Chief Executive Officer of Manulife Canada Ltd., President of Manulife Canada Ltd.