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Insurance Sector

Hot Stocks in This Sector	Prudential Financial, Manulife Financial, American International Group, MetLife, Allstate Corporation, Ace, Phoenix Companies, Inc., Liberte Investors.
Related Sectors	Banking.
Hot Sectors	Investing, Healthcare, Services, Banking, Energy.
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Industries in the Insurance Sector

• Insurance Brokers

• Accident & Health Insurance

• Surety & Title Insurance

• Property & Casualty Insurance

• Life Insurance

Insurance Upgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
09/08/2009	MET	Bank of America	Neutral	Buy
08/20/2009	LNC	Citi	Sell	Hold
08/20/2009	PRU	FBR Capital	Market Perform	Outperform
08/19/2009	DFG	Sandler O'Neill	Hold	Buy

Insurance Downgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
09/09/2009	EHTH	JMP Securities	Market Perform	Market Underperform
09/08/2009	LNC	Bank of America	Buy	Neutral
09/08/2009	AIG	Credit Suisse	Neutral	Underperform
09/03/2009	FAF	Stephens	Overweight	Equalweight

Insurance New Coverages

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Rating
08/05/2009	GLRE	Credit Suisse	Neutral
08/05/2009	SFG	Credit Suisse	Neutral
08/05/2009	RGA	Credit Suisse	Outperform
08/05/2009	DFG	Credit Suisse	Neutral

Insurance Earnings

Date	Ticker	Actual	Expected	Prev Yr Qtr
08/12/2009	PGR	0.36	0.36	0.36
08/11/2009	UNAM	0.12		0.14
08/10/2009	TCHC	0.10		-0.31
08/10/2009	AFFM	-0.58		0.15
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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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