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Humana Leaps a Staggering 86%

Posted by Benzinga on February 6th, 2012

Health insurer Humana (NYSE: HUM) saw its fourth quarter earnings rise 86 percent thanks to membership growth and light use of health benefits.

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HUM | MCR | OCR
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General Market News, HUM, ocr, MCR

Economists are expecting employment numbers to gain again in January, after 200,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in December, according to a Bloomberg survey. Analysts on average expected 140,000 jobs to be added to the economy, despite disappointing consumer spending in recent months.

Why You Should Not Buy into Zynga's Rally

Posted by Benzinga on February 2nd, 2012

Facebook filed a highly anticipated five billion dollar IPO last night, which has made the entire social media sector boom today. LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) is up nearly 6% and Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) is trading up almost 7%. As a result, the Global X Social Media Index Fund ETF (NASDAQ: SOCL), in which aforementioned stocks have a significant weight is up 2.5%.

Chrysler Continues the Detroit Resurgence

Posted by Benzinga on February 1st, 2012

Wednesday saw Chrysler report its first annual profit in seven years. Not since 2005 has the company, the only non-traded auto manufacturer in the Detroit “big 3”, been able to report a profit, and it comes only two years after a federal bailout, a bankruptcy filing and a takeover by Fiat.

Tickers:
F | GM
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General Market News, GM, F

Do you read the privacy policy of everything you sign, become a member of, rely on, or visit on the Internet? If you answered no, you're not alone. It's become all too common to scroll to the bottom of an agreement waiver and just click the appropriate box that will get you to where you want to go quickly – all without the hours spent squinting at illegibly small text.

'Twas the Season for iPhone Mayhem

Posted by Benzinga on January 25th, 2012

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) may be able to commiserate with Charles Dickens ever popular adage, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The company sold a record-breaking 4.2 million iPhone's in its fourth quarter, not to mention the plethora of other “i” products it moved throughout the holiday months.

Did Apple Secretly Kill Off MegaUpload?

Posted by Benzinga on January 24th, 2012

The popular file-hosting site is officially closed. But is someone other than the DOJ to blame?

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