The bears clearly went on Thanksgving vacation. After all, they have a lot to be thankful for in 2008! For the week, the S&P 500 rallied back +12.03%, Dow +9.73%, Nasdaq +10.92%, and the Russell 2000 +16.38%. Looking through the…
Since everyone’s focus today is on spending money, I thought it would be a perfect time to talk about my new computer workstation which will arrive via FedEx by the end of the day. In this post, I’ll provide details…
The Biggest Turkeys of 2008 50%-off deals are not expected to save retail sales on Black Friday Retailers offer big discounts and then pray What does Black Friday mean anyway? Market performance on Black Friday Holiday shopping with deflated stocks…
Good morning. After the largest four-day recovery since the Great Depression, stock futures are indicating a soft start to the final trading day of November. There’s not a lot of market moving news this morning other than terrorism in Mumbai…
Another *VERY* nice day for the market. Seriously, we need Obama to give a speech every single day until the end of the year! As many of you already know, the stock and bond markets in the U.S. are closed…
It’s no secret that the markets have been in the dumps with the S&P 500 down over 41% year-to-date. Still, it’s good to know that some people are making money in the current market, even if those folks happen to be guests of the New York State Department of Corrections.
That’s right: Dennis Kozlowski (aka Prison [...]
LNA Access directly connects carriers and distributors to agent licensing and appointment information.
Through the acquisition of AscendantOne from ISO, AQS has broadened its scope as a provider of policy administration solutions just as ISO has limited its own scope as a vendor.
Every now and then, we come across something in a filing that just makes us slap our head and say, “What the heck were they thinking?”. And that’s exactly what happened when we skimmed the proxy that A. Schulman (SHLM) filed yesterday. Here’s the head-slapping part:
During fiscal 2008, the Compensation Committee determined that maintaining [...]
Insurance Tech Outlook 2009: Focus investment on short-term cost reductions and/or customer experience enhancements, suggests Deloitte’s Joe Guastella.