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Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiary, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac), provides supplemental health and life insurance. The company offers cancer plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, care plans, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans, and annuities in Japan. It also offers accident/disability plans, cancer expense plans, short-term disability plans, sickness and hospital indemnity plans, hospital intensive care plans, fixed-benefit dental plans, vision care plans, long-term care plans, and life insurance products...
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Health Benefit Providers Index Drops on Reform Prospects
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The accompanying table includes 38 companies in the ETF Innovators Health Benefit Providers Index, which was down sharply in the past week and has lost 14% of its market value to a level of 192,305 since I last wrote about the group five weeks ago. <> <> The uncertain future for health insurers and benefit providers that I wrote about previously came to a head this week with plans by President Obama for healthcare reform aimed at cutting health costs by favoring generic drug makers and smaller Medicare Advantage payments to private insurers, along with smaller increases...
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Wal-Mart, Target, Claymore China Small Cap ETF, Coca-Cola and Aflac – Press Releases
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For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – November 5, 2009 – 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 (WMT), Target (TGT), Claymore China Small Cap ETF (HAO), Coca-Cola (KO) and Aflac (AFL). Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with the free Profit from the Pros newsletter: http://at.zacks.com/?id=5513 Here are highlights from Wednesday’s AnalystBlog: China Booming Again <>Th...
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China Booming Again – Analyst Blog
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The World Bank now estimates that China will grow 8.4% in 2009, up from its June forecast of 7.2% growth. Like the U.S., China embarked on a large fiscal stimulus program, one that relative to the size of its economy is more than three times as large as the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act was.
Well, surprise, surprise -- a bigger package has been more effective than a smaller one at lifting economic growth. China, of course, is in a better fiscal position to invest in its economy than the U.S. That is a legacy of the years of fiscal mismanagement in the U.S. going into the crisis, and...
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Dividend growth trio: Aflac, Medtronic and Colgate-Palmolive
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Filed under: Newsletters, AFLAC Inc (AFL), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Stocks to Buy  "One way to build an inflation hedge into your investment cash flows is to focus on stocks that are likely to boost their dividends on a regular basis," explains dividend specialist Chuck Carlson.
<>In his The DRIP Investor, which focuses on blue chip companies offering dividend reinvestment programs, he notes, "Since dividends are paid with cold cash, they can't be faked. Either you pay the dividend or you don't. They can't be some figment of accounting magic." Here, he looks at three favorite blue chips with stro...
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Earnings highlights: Aflac, Avon, BP, Hershey, Kellogg, Nintendo, P&G, Sprint ...
Filed under: Daimler (DAI), Sprint Nextel Corp (S), AFLAC Inc (AFL), Avon Products (AVP), Kellogg Co (K), Hershey Co (HSY), Procter and Gamble (PG), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP), General Dynamics Corp (GD), Nintendo (NTDOY) Here are some highlights from last week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: <> Aflac Inc. (NYSE: AFL) reported strong Q3 results, declared a dividend, and offered guidance for Q4. Avon Products Inc. (NYSE: AVP) Q3 earnings slumped and revenue was hurt by currency translations. <>BP (NYSE: BP) shares leaped higher after it reported better-than...
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5 Great Companies to Research This Weekend
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Looking for some companies to research this weekend? Here are five that I like. Each passes the ModernGraham tests for the Enterprising Investor, based on the teachings of Benjamin Graham. The valuation is based on a modernized version of Benjamin Graham’s IV = EPS x (8.5 + 2g) formula presented in The Intelligent Investor, with the earnings per share being normalized through a weighted average over the last five years. <><>American Electric Power Co (AEP) – American Electric passes the tests for the defensive investor, which automatically qualifies the company for the enterprising inves<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< />< /><>< /><><>< /><>< />< />...
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