Posts Tagged ‘Hartford’
Tribune Co. Going Bankrupt
Sunday, December 7, 2008 23:06 2 CommentsTribune Co. may be filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy next week, as advertising revenues tumbled.The company has $1.5 billion due in interest payments on debt due over the next 8 months and won’t have the cash to make good. Tribune has hired Lazard to prepare the bankruptcy filings.
Tribune has been in trouble for a while. [...]
Charts of the Week
Saturday, November 22, 2008 20:12 No CommentsNo sign of a bottom! The S&P 500 Index has violated it’s 2002 lows. The financial sector remains in free fall. Hartford Insurance appears to be the next AIG, and Citigroup the next Lehman.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is coming close to it’s moment of truth, a test of it’s 2002 lows. A breach of [...]
The Coming Annuity Crisis: Will You be a Casualty?
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 22:25 4 CommentsAre you one of the millions of Americans that has a portion of their retirement assets in annuities? If so, you MUST read this.
Thanks to their hefty brokerage commissions, annuities have become one of the most widely sold and marketed financial products in the US today. Variable annuities have upfront sales costs which range from [...]
