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		<title><![CDATA[The Misadventures of Moody's: Touting The Hartford, Mangling MetLife]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most analysts don't have the access to the company financial records that Moody's Investors Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch do when they formulate their credit ratings. Theoretically that should make them smarter than the rest of us.    But only theoretically. Each of the three big rating...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[MetLife Sees 2010 Operating Earnings Up 50 Percent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lilla ZuillNEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - MetLife Inc MET forecast 2010 earnings that could beat average Wall Street expectations, helped by cost cuts, improved investment returns and higher revenue, but said it did not see a return to historical growth levels until at least 2011.The largest publicly traded U.S. life...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stuy-Town Capitulates]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felix Salmon submits:  Call it the final death knell for arguably the frothiest deal that the US residential real-estate market has ever seen &#8212; the sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper village in Manhattan for $5.4 billion in 2006. The driving force behind the deal was the expectation...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:42:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MetLife Offers Strong 2010 Outlook]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zacks.com submits:   MetLife Inc. MET has forecast a significant improvement in its operating earnings next year, largely attributable to an increase in premiums, cost cuts and improved investment returns. However, the company doesn&#8217;t expect to grow at its historical growth levels before 2011.   MetLife expects 2010...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:25:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent report by Wells Fargo analyst John Hall makes you wonder if he knows something you don't - and how he found out.    According to an article in the Star-Ledger, a newspaper in Newark, New Jersey-based Prudential Financial's home town,Â  Hall upgraded the stock based on...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - American International Group Inc AIG, the insurer that received billions of dollars in a U.S. bailout, has been authorised by its board to pay Chief Executive Robert Benmosche's $7 million (4.2 million pound) compensation, after it laid to rest concerns that he may quit the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Board OKs CEO Pay, as Benmosche Agrees to Stay]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - American International Group Inc AIG, the insurer that received billions of dollars in a U.S. bailout, has been authorized by its board to pay Chief Executive Robert Benmosche's $7 million compensation, after it laid to rest concerns that he may quit the post.The approval, which the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[American States Water Company Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Nancy Doyle - MetLife. Nancy Doyle - MetLife I just wanted to know what method you&#8217;re going to be using for financing your CapEx of next year. Do you plan on doing any debt issuance? Bob Sprowls Eva, let you...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[MetLife Q3: Surpasses by a Penny]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zacks.com submits:   MetLife Inc.&#8217;s MET third-quarter operating earnings of 87 cents per share were only a penny ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate. This also compares favorably with operating earnings of 84 cents in the prior-year quarter. Operating income excludes after-tax net investment gains or losses of consolidated...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[MetLife Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from  Tom Gallagher with CSFB. Tom Gallagher - CSFB First, just Bill, a follow-up on the interest rate related charge in the annuities. Would you describe this as something that is more accounting noise related to specifically the way...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:06:08 -0700</pubDate>
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