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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:29:56 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;p&#62; Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade premarket are Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), and Zumiez Inc. (ZUMZ). &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Research firm IDC issued an alarming report Wednesday for PC makers, saying world-wide shipments of laptops and desktops...</description>
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 <title>Protective Life to Buy MONY Life Insurance, Reinsure Certain...</title>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;pre&#62; By Nathalie Tadena &#60;/pre&#62;
&#60;p&#62; Protective Life Corp. (PL) agreed to acquire MONY Life Insurance Co. from AXA SA (CS.FR, AXAHY) and reinsure certain life insurance policies written by a MONY subsidiary for about $1.06 billion, a deal the company said will produce a steady stream...</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:58:25 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Prudential Leads Bidders for Hartford Life-Insurance Unit -Sources</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Prudential Financial Inc. (PRU), seeking to put to use excess capital it has amassed in recent years, is in talks to acquire a life-insurance business from Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG), people familiar with the matter...</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:29:35 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>CORRECT: TNK-BP Hopes To Close Brazil Buy Within Month, Eyes...</title>
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 <description>&#60;div class='newsbody'&#62;&#60;p&#62; (&#34;CORRECT: TNK-BP Hopes To Close Brazil Buy Within Month, Eyes Other Assets&#34; at 1420 GMT and &#34;TNK-BP Hopes To Close Brazil Buy Within Month, Eyes Other Assets&#34; at 1203 GMT misstated the name of the Venezuelan company in the sixth paragraph. The correct version follows:) &#60;/p&#62;
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 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:20:13 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Protective Life Agrees To Acquire Torchmark Unit For $316 Million</title>
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&#60;p&#62; Protective Life Corp. (PL) agreed to acquire United Investors Life Insurance Co. from Torchmark Corp. (TMK) for $316 million. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62; However, Protective Life will pay just $260 million owing to the target's excess capital of about $56 million...</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:39:34 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title>Financial Stocks Decline Broadly On Europe, Korea Fears</title>
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&#60;p&#62; NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Financial stocks were broadly lower Tuesday amid a global selloff on worries about continued euro zone woes, including the impact of the Bank of Spain's bailout of savings bank CajaSur, as well...</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 10:42:49 EDT</pubDate>
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