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14 hrs ago | KXMA-TV Dickinson

TheStreet.com Reaffirms Hastings Mutual Insurance's Rating:...

TheStreet.com Reaffirms Hastings Mutual Insurance's Rating: "A+"or "Excellent" HASTINGS, MI 11/10/09 Hastings Mutual Insurance Company has received a financial strength rating of A+ . This top financial strength rating is only one of 5 given to all property and casualty insurance companies in the United States.

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Related Topix: Media, Computers, Insurance, Hastings, MI, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance

20 hrs ago | TheStreet.com

Three Bank Stocks With Outsized Dividends

A select group of bank stocks are paying outsized dividends and remain values while their larger peers are in danger of topping out in the stock-market rally.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Wells Fargo , Media, Computers, New York Community Bancorp, Business News

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Examiner.com

Droid opening weekend modest

It seems like new smartphone launch sales are being watched as closely as movie opening box office receipts, given today's coverage of the introduction of the Motorola Droid.

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Related Topix: Wireless, Telecom, Motorola, iPhone, Computers, Apple Computer, Media, Steve Jobs

Seeking Alpha

Adam Warner's 'Options Volatility Trading: Strategies for Profiting from Market Swings'

I have begun reading Adam Warner's new book Options Volatility Trading: Strategies for Profiting from Market Swings .

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Related Topix: Media, Computers

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Seeking Alpha

Has the Market Already Hit Its High for the Year?

Market followers love to make timing predictions. These predictions come in all time frames and flavors: The market has made the high for the day, and will now trade down.

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Related Topix: Media, Computers

Sat Nov 07, 2009

TheStreet.com

RealMoney's Take on the Buffett Buy

Editor's note: This morning brought the news that Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett made a deal to purchase freight rail titan Burlington Northern Santa Fe .

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Related Topix: Berkshire Hathaway, Insurance, Construction, Investment Services, Warren Buffett, Railroads, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Media, Computers, Business News

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Tech Confidential Blog

BofA, GMAC make an unlikely pair

Bank of America Corp. and GMAC LLC are two wounded financial giants with mounds of debt, whose futures look cloudy at best.

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Related Topix: Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Media, Computers

Thu Nov 05, 2009

ITWeb

Partnership for a oesmartphone on wheelsa

Partnership for "smartphone on wheels" In this World Wide Wrap: Partnership for "smartphone on wheels", Zinc battery promises longer life, and MS and Taiwan build cloud research centre.

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Related Topix: Toyota Prius, Hybrid Vehicles, Toyota, Media, Computers, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science

Wed Nov 04, 2009

San Francisco Chronicle

Hawaii travel advice for Gavin Newsom

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has surprised many in the city by beating a retreat to Hawai'i, where his wife and baby daughter were already on vacation, with no warning.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro, eBay, Startups, Media, Computers, US Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Cramer: You Can Ride With YRC Worldwide

Tags: Jim Cramer , Mad Money , SEC , TheStreet.com , TSCM , YRCW Yep. You can ride, alright straight to see the devil in Hades.

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Related Topix: Computers, Media

Tue Nov 03, 2009

TheStreet.com

Hudson City CEO Happily Sticks With Plan

Hudson City Bancorp may not be in the same league as banking titans like JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs in terms of scale, but don't discount the $59 billion-asset company just because it's smaller in size.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Hudson City Bancorp, Banking, Computers, Media, Business News

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Cramer Buy Recommendation CIT Goes Bankrupt

Tags: Bankruptcy , CIT , Jim Cramer , Mad Money , SEC , TheStreet.com When will the SEC start regulating game shows masquerading as investment advisory? This weekend, CIT Group filed Chapter 11 .

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Related Topix: CIT Group, Financial Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Computers, Media

Seeking Alpha

CIT Group: Taxpayers' Investment Is Virtually Worthless

CIT Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday, November 1, 2009. With that filing, taxpayers absorbed their first loss of bank bailouts.

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Related Topix: CIT Group, Financial Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Computers, Media

Sat Oct 31, 2009

I4U Future Technology News

There Will Be No Google Phone

There have been rumors of a Google-manufactured phone since before the launch of the Android operating system.

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Related Topix: Computers, Media

Fri Oct 30, 2009

TheStreet.com

Seven Banks Fail Friday

State and federal regulators closed seven community banks in five states Friday, bringing the total number of failed U.S. banks and thrifts this year to 106.

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Related Topix: Media, Computers, Naples Metro, Naples, FL, Fort Lauderdale Metro, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Miami Metro

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Blogging Stocks

Visa charges through Q4 estimates, but future cash flow is the story

Filed under: Earnings reports , American Express , MasterCard Inc'A' , Visa Inc.

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Related Topix: American Express, Financial Services, Visa Inc., Media, Computers

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Blogging Stocks

Cramer on BloggingStocks: Obama has to see the light on nat gas

Filed under: Market matters , Chesapeake Energy , Commodities , Oil , Cramer on BloggingStocks TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says perhaps he can learn from Gov.

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Related Topix: Energy, Oil & Gas, Chesapeake Energy, Media, Computers, Ed Rendell, US Governors

Mon Oct 26, 2009

TheStreet.com

Worst-Run Companies Deserved Their Spots

Last week I published my annual list of worst-run companies . I want to follow up here by clarifying some reader misconceptions and address some reactions to that article.

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Related Topix: Computers, Media

TheStreet.com

Positives Outweigh the Negatives on This Bank

If the shares weaken closer to my cost basis , I'll add more. Earnings came in at 56 cents per share vs.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wells Fargo , Banking, Financial Services, Media, Computers, Business News

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Seeking Alpha

Estimate Revisions and 'The Earnings Season Racket'

Doug Kass penned a column for TheStreet.com on Wednesday titled "The Earnings Season Racket." Kass argues that the earnings "beat" rate is so high this quarter because of lowered estimates, and that "companies almost always beat earnings forecasts even during rough economic periods." Below is a portion of his column: While it has been widely ...

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Related Topix: Computers, Media

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