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Insurance Sector

Hot Stocks in This Sector Manulife Financial, Prudential Financial, MetLife, American International Group, Conseco, W.R. Berkley, Berkshire Hathaway, Brown & Brown.
Related Sectors Banking.
Hot Sectors Investing, Healthcare, Banking, Services, Energy.
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Insurance Upgrades

Date Ticker Analyst Old Rating New Rating
10/15/2009 EMCI Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Underperform Market Perform
10/12/2009 ALL Atlantic Equities Underweight Neutral
10/06/2009 TMK Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Market Perform Outperform
10/06/2009 AIZ Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Market Perform Outperform

Insurance Downgrades

Date Ticker Analyst Old Rating New Rating
11/11/2009 AXA Morgan Stanley Overweight Equalweight
11/06/2009 RNR Goldman Sachs upgrades Travelers (NYSE: TRV) and XL Capital (NYS Neutral Sell
10/29/2009 RNR Fox-Pitt Outperform In-Line
10/29/2009 RNR RBC Outperform Sector Perform

Insurance New Coverages

Date Ticker Analyst Rating
10/26/2009 DFG Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Outperform
10/01/2009 AFL Sandler O'Neill Hold
09/18/2009 LNC FBR Capital Outperform
09/17/2009 FSR Stifel Nicolaus Buy

Insurance Earnings

Date Ticker Actual Expected Prev Yr Qtr
11/10/2009 MHLD 0.23 0.24 0.25
11/10/2009 AIG 2.85 1.98 -68.40
11/10/2009 KFS -2.41 -0.23 -0.32
11/10/2009 PICO -0.08 0.03 0.03
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Stock of the Day

The Insurance Sector's AIG (AIG) was InvestorGuide.com's Stock of the Day on 9/4/2009.
Don't Bet the College Fund on AIG
One of the juicy stories during these lazy last few weeks of summer has been the transformation of (former) insurance giant AIG from the laughing stock of the financial world to the darling of the stock market. The stock went through an embarrassing 20 to 1 reverse split (to get it out of the penny stock neighborhood) in July and since then has more than doubled in value. AIG is still over 80% owned by the government and owes Uncle Sam $80 billion in loans. But the fact that investors are willing to take a chance on it is partly a result of typical investor behavior after a brutal bear market. For a lot of investors, a 10% gain on a stock is not going to even make a dent in the huge hits they have taken, instead they need spectacular gains to make their money back -- AIG is now being seen as an opportunity to do that. In other words, the stock has become more of a lottery ticket than an investment vehicle. Read more

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