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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 .

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 .

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 ...