The High-touch Legal Services Blog - For Startup and... (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
This question was asked a few days ago (in different form) on LinkedIn. The following, slightly edited, is the response that I provided: As is always the case with alleged copyright infringement, the outcome of the case will depend on the facts. AFLAC v. Assurant, et al. illustrates where the line between what is protected and [...]
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
These are Friday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this morning in Wall Street research calls: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) Started as Outperform at BMO Capital Markets. Dillard’s (NYSE: DDS) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank. Dominion (NYSE: D) Cut to Sell at Citigroup. Intel [...]
Being Bruce - (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
We had another lively meeting of the Leland BNI Business Attractors. We started by playing Frisbee and ended with a drawing. Oh yeah, and had some good networking, an interesting presentation by Aflac's Mimi Kronkowski, and guest Scott Schmidt. A bunch of strong referrals were given as well. Good meeting, folks.
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By insider. Chairman of the Board/CEO of AFLAC Inc. ( AFL ) Daniel P Amos sells 66,000 shares of AFL on 11/17/2009 at an average price of $45.15 a share. Read more » »
Japan Probe (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The song from an Aflac commercial that has become a minor hit in Japan now has a special Christmas version: The full version of Aflac’s new X-mas commercial can be found on Maneki Neko Duck dot com. Related link: Don’t be surprised if you encounter these characters in the streets of Tokyo. Aflac has decked [...]
MarketIntelligenceCenter.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
AFLAC (AFL) was upgraded today by analysts at EVA Dimensions, LLC and the stock is now at $44.96, up $0.87 (1.97%) on volume of 1,112,923 shares traded. EVA Dimensions, LLC upgraded the stock today from Overweight from Hold. Over the last 52 weeks the stock has ranged from a low of $10.83 in March to a high of $47.88 in December. AFLAC stock has been showing support aroun...
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
By insider. Chairman of the Board/CEO of AFLAC Inc. ( AFL ) Daniel P Amos sells 12,000 shares of AFL on 11/12/2009 at an average price of $44.71 a share. Read more » »
Feeds (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The ducky insurance company uses Facebook to promote fundraising and brand awareness
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. financial stocks slipped on Thursday as investors' enthusiasm flagged absent much market-moving news or data. The Financial Select Sector SPDR, an ETF that tracks the financial stocks in the S&P 500, fell 0.4%, outpacing the broader market's decline. Insurers led the drop, with the seven biggest decliners in the S&P financial sector all from that industry. Principal...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
CHICAGO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Summits Research issues PriceWatch Alerts for GLW, BA, BTU, AFL, and TTM. Seven Summits Strategic Investments' PriceWatch Alerts are available at http://www.iotogo.com/s/111209B (Note:...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Al's got wood! And implements! As we've commented before this is not a particularly green portfolio. These are only the publicly traded U.S. names. Other investments (GIM is a large holder of carbon trader Camco, CAO.L, for instance) they aren't required to report, so they don't. From the Securities and Exchange Commission : FORM 13F INFORMATION TABLE VALUE SHARES/ NAME OF ISSUER TITLE OF CLASS (x$1000)...
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Crain's This item lauds the Nets organization for helping their sponsors to network with each other. Sponsors of professional sports teams typically pony up big bucks to reach consumers. But a new program dreamed up by the New Jersey Nets, The Nets Chamber of Commerce, paves the way for some 400 sponsors, vendors and companies owned by season ticket holders to meet each other. ... Participants, including...
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By 10qk. AFLAC Inc. ( AFL ) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. Read more » »
The Happy Circumstance (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Michael Feldman explains it all. 4. Under RepubliCare small businesses will be empowered to band together to form multi-national conglomerates with interlocking directorates, the better to lobby against Big Government Mandates showered on employees lucky to be working at all in this Democrat economy. RepubliCare will cover 90% of the already insured. 9. Individuals already sick do not qualify for benefits...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Target (NYSE: TGT), Claymore China Small Cap ETF (NYSE: HAO), Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and Aflac (NYSE: AFL). Get the...
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