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AVERAGES WIPE OUT STEEP LOSSES AS SHORTS BACK AWAY
One of the persistent problems that the equities market - and especially those hard-hit financial services components - have faced during the bear market has been the multiplier effect of market losses: as stock values declined, investors grew incre...
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INSURERS PART OF FORCED DIVESTITURES
The efforts by Hartford Financial Services (HIG) to defend its commercial mortgage-backed securities portfolios hasn’t done much to dissuade investors’ concerns that the sector has a huge exposure to unrealized losses. And the company tacitly acknowledged what tr...
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Insurance companies have now joined the growing list of American firms vying for a piece of the bailout pie.According to the Wall Street Journal large insurance companies are snatching up small regional banks to speed up their transition to savings-and-loan holding companies thereby qualifying them...
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clusterstock.alleyinsider.com
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Nov 18, 2008
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AEG, GNW, HIG
Hartford Financial (HIG), Genworth (GNW) and a few others have figured out that they can buy a small bank, conver to an S&L, apply to the TARP and profit. It's a clever move, and it'll probably work, but can a foreign firm pull off the same stunt?
Dutch insurer Aegon (AEG) says it intends to buy...
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Bloomberg
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Nov 17, 2008
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GNW
Genworth Financial in Talks to Buy Minnesota-Based InterBank
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clusterstock.alleyinsider.com
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Nov 17, 2008
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GNW, HIG
This is becoming the hot financial play. Buy a small bank, convert to an S&L structure, profit! Hartford (HIG) did it last week to nice effect, and on Sunday, Genworth announced that it's doing the same thin,buying a small bank and then applying for the TARP. This time, the lucky winner is Inter...
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notablecalls.blogspot.com
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Nov 14, 2008
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GNW
UBS has some interesting positive comments on Genworth Financial (NYSE:GNW) after the co announced it borrowed $930M of its $1.7B available credit facilities to repay $1.1B of senior notes maturing in 2Q09—after which GNW has no long-term debt maturing until 2011. According to UBS, GNW may be able t...
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seekingalpha.com
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Nov 10, 2008
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GNW
Genworth Financial, Inc. (GNW)
Q3 FY08 Earnings Call
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In a recent report Standard and Poors predicted that dividend growth will slow in 2008 and probably become negative in 2009 as more industries are affected by the current economic slowdown. There were several dividend cuts and eliminations last week. Stocks that cut or eliminate their dividends tend...
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Genworth (GNW) DIvidend cut. Drops to $2.55 from 52-week high of $28.21. Unisys (UIS) No news but falls over 30% to $.79 from 52-week high of $7.90. Sunrise...
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forbes.com
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Sep 30, 2008
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GNW, TKR
The insurance giant nearly doubles after talking about getting out of the mortgage insurance business.
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businessweek.com
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Sep 30, 2008
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GNW, SOV, TKR
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The best performing online investors like the look of a regional bank but choose to play bears on the overall market.
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Is It Safe to Buy Financials? - Analysis and Discussion with David King of Putnam Investments: Investors are Afraid Right Now
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Bloomberg
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Sep 18, 2008
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GNW
Genworth Down Almost 50% at One Point; According to Merrill Lynch Analyst, the Insurance Company, Like AIG, Has Above Average Exposure to Housing Market; Genworth Disclosed Exposure to AIG and Lehman After Disclosing Exposure to Fannie and Freddie a Week Earlier
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blogs.wsj.com
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Sep 18, 2008
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GNW, WM
Selloffs of 150 points and rallies of 400 points are significant enough, never mind when they happen in the same day. Bolstered by a combination of a few guns aimed at short-sellers, opportunities for investors to swoop in and grab cheap assets, and talk of a government-led plan that would bail out...
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BANKS EYE NEW ROLE IN HOUSING LOANS
The decision by the federal government to take over the mortgage lending business of Fanne Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) may - or may not - prove to be the salvation of the housing crisis in the United States. It does, after all, do little more than assure conti...
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