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Monday November 16, 2009

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PowerSafe Technology Corporation (PSFT.PK) subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (www.amplificationtechnologies.com) (ATI), is offering higher performance thermoelectrically cooled discrete amplification single photon counting solid state photodetectors. These photodetectors are mounted on a two stage thermoelectric cooler inside a hermetically sealed TO8 package and can be operated down to a temperature of -30oC.

For an unprecedented fifth year in a row, readers of Business Insurance once again have named CIGNA’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) the best in the industry.

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Thursday October 8, 2009

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Please be advised that Getty Realty Corp. (NYSE: GTY) will release its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, after the market closes on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.

CIGNA (NYSE:CI) and ProHealth Physicians, Inc., have expanded their longstanding relationship by implementing an enhanced care coordination program that includes pay-for-performance provisions and many of the features of a patient-centered medical home program. This is the first program of its kind in Connecticut.

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Friday September 18, 2009

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Obagi Medical Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMPI), a leader in topical aesthetic and therapeutic skin health systems, announced today that Company management will present a corporate overview at the UBS Life Science Conference to be held on September 21-23 at the Grand Hyatt New York, NY. The presentation will take place at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern) on Monday, September 21, 2009.

ActionView International, Inc. (Pink Sheets: AVEW) and its wholly owned MatchFights, LLC subsidiary today announced that fans of MatchFights

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Chicago, IL – August 3, 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: Cigna (CI), United Health Care (UNH), Aetna (AET), Ford (F) and Toyota (TM).

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 Friday’s Analyst Blog:

What's It Worth to Avoid Competition?

There is an extremely interesting post that looks at both the change in the Intrade odds of having a public health care option and the movement in the stock prices of the three biggest health insurance companies, Cigna (CI), United Health Care (

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There is an extremely interesting guest post up over al the Baseline Scenario by Anindrajit Dube (http://baselinescenario.com/2009/07/31/the-value-of-not-having-the-public-plan/) that looks at both the change in the Intrade odds of having a public health care option and the movement in the stock prices of the three biggest health insurance companies, Cigna (CI), United Health Care (UNH) and Aetna (AET) in response to the Senate Finance committee’s decision not to include such a plan in its version of Health Care Reform. Clearly the current system of loosely regulated, for-profit, regional oligopolies is to the great benefit of these firms. I also think the evidence is pretty clear that it is not to the benefit of the American public. This is not a system designed to maximize the quality of care or hold down costs or reduce conflicts of interest. In most of the country, the combined market share of ...

On June 24, 2009, Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (HIG) completed the acquisition of Federal Trust Corporation for $10 million in cash. This acquisition will satisfy a key eligibility requirement for Hartford's participation in the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) as the company will now transform into a savings and loan holding company. Previously, the Treasury had stated that some of the life insurers may qualify for Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) because of their Bank Holding Company status.

Most life insurers have significant exposure to Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS), which have resulted in increasing losses in the investment portfolio with the worsening downturn in Commercial Real Estate pricing. However, the TARP funds will provide some support to these companies. On May 14, 2009, Hartford announced that it has received preliminary approval from the U.S. Treasury Department to participate in the Treasury's CPP for an amount

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If Crude oil Breaks Through $53, It’s a Screaming Buy

Dear Value Seeker,

America’s job losses have come into sharp focus again today.

The New York Times calls it a “rising tide.” It’s more like a tsunami…

Initial jobless claims for the week ended January 17 shot up by 62,000 to 589,000. This is the highest weekly rise in unemployment since November 1982.

Meanwhile, Microsoft ensured an abrupt reversal of yesterday’s stock market rally by warning that it was “not immune” to the recession.

The tech giant also announced it would give 5,000 workers their marching orders, including 1,400 today.

Microsoft joins a long and growing list of blue chips that have announced job cuts in 2009.

It’s a list The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics blog is tracking:

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Adam Lass says funding pressures will increase political pressure to investigate the practices of big health insurers. UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) is ready to pay out $50 million in reimbursements. Adam says traders stand to make triple-digit gains by shorting UNH and other insurers being scrutinised by the courts.

This from Taipan Daily:

“$700 billion here… $700 billion there… after a while, you are talking about real money!”

Yeah, I filched the line. Supposedly it was originally uttered by famed Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen. Except it was supposed to be about a mere couple billion dollars. And no one’s really sure if he actually said it.

Here’s something I know he said, as I filched it from the Congressional Record of June 16, 1965:

One time in the House of Representatives [a colleague] told me a story about a proposition that a teacher put to a boy. He said, ‘Johnny, a cat

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Monday:Economic New Home Sales (450K)Earnings Arch Coal (ACI), Humana (HUM), FPL (FPL), Sohu (SOHU), Tidewater (TDW), Verizon (VZ), Atheros (ATHR), CF Ind (CF), Meritage (MTH), Vertex (VRTX), Zoran (ZRAN), Universal Health (UHS)Tuesday:Economic Consumer Confidence (52.0)Earnings Boyd (BYD), BP (BP), Ceradyne (CRDN), KC Southern (KSU), Royal Carib (RCL), SAP (SAP), Schnitzer (SCHN), US Steel (X), Under Armour (UA), USG (USG), Valero (VLO), Whirlpool (WHR), Apollo (APOL), Centex (CTX), Cephalon (CEPH), Fiserv (FISV), GMarket (GMKT), Lan Air (LFL), McKesson (MCK), NetLogic (NETL), Walter (WLT), Websense (WBSN), STMicro (STM)Wednesday:Economic Weekly Crude, Durable Orders (-1.0%), FOMC StatementEarnings Aetna (AET), AGCO (AG), Comcast (CMCSA), Corning (GLW), Hess (HES), Garmin (GRMN), Legg Mason (LM), Moody’s (MCO), Newmont (NEM), SPX (SPW), Tesoro (TSO), Agnico (AEM), Cliffs Nat Res (CLF), CME Group (CME), First Solar (FSLR), Gen Cable (BGC), Hartford (HIG), Harris (HRS), Murphy (MUR), Prudential (PRU), Symantec ...

Aetna is moving to China! Not exactly, but it is opening a "representative office" in Shanghai. Cigna, UnitedHealth, and WellPoint already have offices in China and are hoping that China will help jump start their businesses.