Energy Secretary Skips Obama Health Care Address
cbsnews.com 9/10/2009 — Energy Secretary Stays Away During Obama Health Care Speech To Joint Session Of Congress

AIG Keeps Running (AIG)
vsinvestor.com 8/28/2009 — American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is seeing the run continue. Either its new CEO Benmosche is a demi-god, or the euphoria of the bull market and eight straight days of rallies are getting to traders. The news this morning has teh Taiwan ...

"Skips" in Dubai
calculatedriskblog.com 2/6/2009 — With crashing house prices in Dubai, the owners are "driving away" as opposed to walking away ... From The Times: Driven down by debt, Dubai expats give new meaning to long-stay car park (hat tip James) [F]aced with crippling debts as a result of ...

AIG To Release Second-Quarter Results Without Call (Update1)
bloomberg.com 8/4/2009 — Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc., the insurer rescued by the U.S. government, will release second- quarter results without a conference call this week as Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy prepares to step down. AIG, which is ...

AIG Getting Another Boost (AIG)
vsinvestor.com 8/27/2009 — American International Group (NYSE: AIG) is trading up sharply on additional short squeezes… There are reports that the new CEO Benmosche has talked with founder Hank Greenberg on efforts to help rescue the firm. Also, Obama’s pay czar is ...

AIG Sees a Downgrade (AIG)
vsinvestor.com 9/1/2009 — American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is getting hit again after a big drop on Monday. At 8:26 AM EST we have seen over 500,000 shares trade hands and the drop is by 5% to $43.05. Closing price yesterday was $45.33 and the average volume ...

AIG Downgraded (AIG)
vsinvestor.com 9/8/2009 — American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is getting hit this morning despite an up-market. AIG was reportedly downgraded to UNDERPERFORM from an already-cautious NEUTRAL rating. This is despite reports of a $2.4 billion bid for its Taiwan Nan Shan ...

Mortgage rates up 2nd straight week
hf-implode.com 10/23/2009 — " "Following bond yields, long-term mortgages rates edged up slightly this week," Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist, said in a statement."

AIG’s Benmosche Learns He Can’t Push Uncle Sam Around, So Threatens to Quit
nakedcapitalism.com 15 days ago — AIG’s CEO Benmosche has displayed extraordinarily arrogance even before he took the job, so his latest stunt, a threat to leave AIG high and dry by quitting a mere three months in, should come as no surprise. Frankly, from the get-go, he ...

AIG Holding Up On Downgrade (AIG)
vsinvestor.com 9/11/2009 — American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is back in the soup…. Wells Fargo joined in on the downgrade brigade and took the stock down to Underperform from Market-Perform. As we have already seen two key downgrades, it seems that traders ...