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		<title><![CDATA[Retailers and Financials Up During the Bear Market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit:   Financials and Retailers have been some of the worst performing stocks of the bear market that started last October.  There are some stocks in these groups that have managed gains in this market, however.  Below we highlight Retailers and Financials in the Russell...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: GameStop, SanDisk, Safeco Corp., STMicroelectronics and Tech Data Corp]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Zacks Equity Research highlights GameStop (NYSE: GME) as the Bull of the Day and SanDisk (Nasdaq: SNDK) as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Safeco Corp. (NYSE: SAF), STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) and Tech Data Corp. (Nasdaq: TECD). Full analysis of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merger Watch: Safeco Corporation - Liberty Mutual Group]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The M & A Researcher submits:  The Washington OIC deemed Safeco Corporation SAF - Liberty Mutual Group's Form A complete on August 5, 2008. This event triggered a statutory 60-day hearing/decision deadline which is currently October 3, 2008. As is the case in most other Form A reviews, the current...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:11:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Safeco Corp. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session[Operator Instructions]. Your first question will come from the line of Dan Johnson with Citadel Investment. Daniel Johnson - Citadel Investment I guess I had to throw out my question list. So instead let's take a question on SBI. This is around reserve development. We've had generally a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 14:13:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fitch Places Safeco on Rating Watch Negative Following Acquisition Announcement]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has placed its ratings on Safeco Corporation SAF on Rating Watch Negative following today's announcement that Liberty Mutual Group LMG has offered to purchase all outstanding common shares of SAF for $6.2 billion of cash, or an approximate 51% premium over yesterday's closing stock price...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A.M. Best Places Issuer Credit and Debt Ratings of Safeco Insurance Companies under Review with Negative Implications]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. has placed the issuer credit ratings ICR of "a+" of Safeco Insurance Companies Safeco and its members under review with negative implications. A.M. Best also has placed the ICR of "bbb+" and debt ratings of "bbb+" of Safeco Corporation (NYSE: SAF) under review with...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Safeco Corp. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator: Thank you. Today's question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from Dan Johnson of Citadel Investment. Dan Johnson - Citadel Investment Great. Thank you very much. Let's start a little bit with the auto business and talk a little bit about the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:49:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Safeco Corp. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator: Thank you. Today's question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from Dan Johnson of Citadel Investment. Dan Johnson - Citadel Investment Great. Thank you very much. Let's start a little bit with the auto business and talk a little bit about the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:11:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Research and Markets: Comprehensive Analysis of Safeco Corporation Including an Overview of the Personal and Business Insurance Industry]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81354) has announced the addition of "Analysis of Safeco Corporation" to their offering.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Safeco Corporation and Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. Settle Patent Lawsuit and Enter into License Agreement]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- Safeco Corporation, a Fortune 500 property and casualty insurance company, based in Seattle, WA, and Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P., headquartered in Los Angeles, announced today the settlement of patent litigation between the parties and that, as part of the settlement, Safeco Corporation has agreed to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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