Eric Dutram: Leading up to the Q3 earnings season, investors were quite uncertain about the direction of American stocks to close out the year. A great deal of worry is certainly Read more…

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Eric Dutram: Fiscal 2011 was a year of series of natural disasters and economic uncertainty which impacted the U.S economy as a whole and insurance industry was not any exception. In order to tackle Read more…

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This past week was a surprisingly solid one for markets as a choppy session on Monday gave way to broad strength in Tuesday and Wednesday trading. Markets performed poorly in Thursday and then closed out the week in a volatile session thanks to a release of the GDP report and Ben Bernanke’s Read more…

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The energy industry is very much in the news after Deepwater Horizon, a drilling unit owned by Transocean (NYSE:RIG) exploded on April 20, 2010. Damage from the resulting oil spill, the Read more…

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