[AFL] AFLAC Inc

Symbol: AFL Last Price: 57.18 Change: +0.94 (+1.64%) Website: click here

Headlines for [AFL]

• AFL Today 10:45am
  AFLAC Inc Hearing vague takeover chatter circulating
  
• AFL 8/26/2008 04:32pm
  AFLAC Inc Enters into a $825M repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs; Guides 2008 operating EPS up 14-15% and up 13-15% in 2009- With respect to the buyback agreement, Aflac has paid Goldman Sachs $825M to more...
  
• MET 7/29/2008 04:04pm
  MetLife Inc Reports Q2 $1.30 v $1.51e, R $13.7B v $13.9Be, Cuts guidance- Guides FY08 EPS $5.70-5.90 v $6.15e(prior $5.90-6.20)
  
• AFL 7/29/2008 06:58am
  AFLAC Inc CitiGroup Raised AFL to Buy from Hold, price target: $68
  
• AFL 7/28/2008 02:00am
  AFLAC Inc Merrill Lynch Raised AFL to Neutral from Sell, price target: $71.00
  

Financials sector headlines

• SLM Today 02:31pm
  SLM Corp Reduced commitments under Private Education Loan facility by $6.3B - filing dated 8/25- The commitments provided by Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Barclays Bank, Deutsche Bank AG, New York more...
  
• WABC Today 02:13pm
  WestAmerica Bancorp. Authorizes 2M share stock repurchase plan (approx 6.9% of shares outstanding)
  
• MBI Today 02:03pm
  MBIA Inc Moody's comments on reinsurance with FGIC, have yet to assess impact on credit profile- Notes that FGIC and MBIA both ahve subvstantial exposure to risk in mortgage industry
  
• RF.FR Today 01:24pm
  Eurazeo Reports H1 Net €243.1M v €783.2M y/y- Company notes by Sept. 15 it will have repaid €1B credit line
  
• LEH Today 12:30pm
  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc Planning to lay off another 1,500 workers (about 6% of workforce) - NYT citing sources- Note: Lehman has already gone through three rounds of job cuts in the last 12 months, cutting about 6,400 jobs more...