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What the Fuss Harleysville, Affirmative Insurance and Imperial Holdings?

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Martin Timble

In this report: Harleysville Group (NASDAQ:HGIC), Affirmative Insurance Holdings (NASDAQ:AFFM) and Imperial Holdings (NYSE:IFT).

Harleysville Group (NASDAQ:HGIC) has soared by more than 85 percent today after it was announced that Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. would acquire it from $760 million …

Posted in Latest Headlines, Reports | Tagged Affirmative Insurance Holdings, AFFM, analystics, board members, business, cash, expanding, FBI, halted, Harleysville Group, HGIC, IFT, Imperial Holdings, insurance, life insurance, market, NASDAQ, NASDAQ:AFFM, NASDAQ:HGIC, Nationwide Mutual Insurance, NYSE, NYSE:IFT, options, policy, premium, puts, raid, regulatory, reports, SEC, shareholder, stocks, trade, trades, trading | Comments Off

Imperial Holdings, big time loser and the reasons why

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Cameron White

Imperial Holdings (NYSE:IFT) took a battering during trading today, dropping 63 percent after it was announced that the FBI raided its office in Florida due to unusual activity with its life insurance business. Imperial, like other life settlement companies, buys …

Posted in Financial, Main Post | Tagged Analysts, analytics, business, company, coverage, downgraded, FBI, FBR Capital, Florida, Hold, IFT, Imperial Holdings, investment, JMP Secutiries, life insurance, Market Perform, NYSE:IFT, office, options, Outperform, policy, price target, puts, raided, rating, reports, scrutiny, shares, stock, suspended, trade alert, trading, unusual activity, volume, Wunderlich Securities | Comments Off

Oil prices close up after Fed says they have the tools to stimulate the economy

Posted on August 26, 2011 by pmarek

The price of Oil rose after the Federal Reserve’s Chairman Ben Bernanke stated that growth in the economy will resume and that the central bank had the tools nessecary to stimulate the economy in the U.S.

Oil price fell by …

Posted in Commodities, Latest Headlines | Tagged Bank, barrel, Ben Bernanke, Central Bank, chairman, Congress, country, economists, economy, exportation, Federal Reserve, government, growth, hiring, Jackson Hole, Libyan, monetary, money, Oil, oil prices, policy, rebels, speech, stimulate, stimulus package, supply, unemployment, WTI crude, Wyoming | Comments Off

Silver companies post large gain as silver prices push 3 percent higher

Posted on August 22, 2011 by pmarek

Silver companies extended their gains on Monday after investors and central banks boosted their holdings of the precious metal to hedge against the expected slowdown in economic growth that has results from a breakdown in a number of sectors within …

Posted in Basic Materials, Commodities, Latest Headlines | Tagged Central Banks, COMPANIES, economic, economists, Europe, fear, First Majestic Silver, FR, gains, global, growth, Holdings, investors, market, NASDAQ:PASS, NYSE, NYSE:FR, NYSE:SLW, Pan American Silver, PASS, policy, precious metals, safe haven, sectors, Silver, Silver Wheaton, slowdown, SLW, sovereign-debt, speculate | Comments Off

U.S. dollar climbs as investors turn to safe havens

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Josie Middleton

The U.S. dollar, Swiss Franc and Japanese Yen all gained against other major currencies on thursday after investors jumped behind the trio of safe havens following the release of several data reports that all pointed towards a slowdown in the …

Posted in Forex, Latest Headlines | Tagged benefits, CHF, China, confidence, currencies, data, Deutsche Bank, dollar, economies, economy, employers, EUR, Europe, expansion, fears, forecast, GBP, growth, home slaes, investors, japanese yen, JPY, Labor Department, markets, Morgan Stanley, National Association of Realtors, policy, recession, safe haven, sovereign-debt, swiss franc, unemployment, USD | Comments Off

Copper declines as banks drop outlook on global expansion

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Cameron White

Copper futures fell almost 2 percent on thursday on fears that the economy was heading towards another recession after the release of weak housing and labor data; Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank also cast doubt on the global economy after …

Posted in Commodities, Latest Headlines | Tagged Bank, benefits, China, confidence, Copper, data, Deutsche Bank, economy, employers, European, expansion, FCX, fears, forecast, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, futures, global, growth, hiring, housing, industry, labor, Labor Department, markets, Morgan Stanley, National Association of Realtors, NYSE, NYSE:FCX, NYSE:RIO, NYSE:SCCO, policy, Pound, recession, RIO, Rio Tinto, SCCO, slowdown, Southern Copper Corp., sovereign-debt, trading, unemployment | Comments Off

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