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Medco Health Solutions, Inc. is a leading health care company serving the needs of more than 60 million people. Medco, the world’s most advanced……
Location: NV – Las Vegas Date Posted: 4/25/2009
eLearning Instructional Technologist
Medco Health Solutions, Inc. is a leading health care company serving the needs of more than 60 million people. Medco, the world’s most advanced……
Location: FL – Tampa Date Posted: 4/25/2009
eLearning Instructional Technologist
Medco Health Solutions, Inc. is a leading health care company serving the needs of more than 60 million people. Medco, the world’s most advanced……
Location: TX – Fort Worth Date Posted: 4/25/2009
Medcohealth Solutions (MHS) PriceWatch Alert Targets 9.48% Downside Protection
Medcohealth Solutions (NYSE: MHS) closed yesterday at $43.24. So far the stock has hit a 52-week low of $29.80 and 52-week high of $52.00.
Medcohealth Solutions stock has been showing support around 41.95 and resistance in the 44.33 range. Technical indicators for the stock are Bullish and S&P gives MHS a positive 4 STAR (out of 5) buy rating. MHS appears on the Investors Observer Analysts Favorites list. For a hedged play on this stock, look at an Oct ‘09 45 covered call (MHS JI) for a net debit in the $39.14 area.
That is also the break even stock price for this trade. This covered call has a 179 day duration, provides 9.48% downside protection and a 14.97% assigned return rate for a 30.53% annualized return rate (comparison purposes only). A lower cost hedged play for this stock would use a longer term call option in place of the covered call stock purchase. To use this strategy look at going long the MHS Jan ‘10 35 Call (YXM AG) and selling the Oct ‘09 45 call (MHS JI) for a $7.30 debit. The trade has a 179 day life and would provide 2.17% downside protection and a 36.99% assigned return rate for a 75.00% annualized return rate (for comparison purposes only). Medcohealth Solutions does not pay dividends at this time. [For more information on these strategies along with more details on possible risks go to www.iotogo.com/HPWAinfo]
Continue ReadingVirginia Employment Commission opens new office in Bedford
The Virginia Employment Commission opened an Unemployment Express office Monday in Bedford.
The VEC’s express offices are designed to ease the process for filing unemployment claims through “an abbreviated service model.”
Claimants can apply for benefits in person, apply online or use available phones to call the VEC Customer Contact Center.
Continue ReadingVa. Dems, GOP spar over stimulus for jobless benefits
House Republican leaders Thursday fired back at Democrats who have accused them of being callous for rejecting $125 million in federal stimulus money that would extend unemployment benefits to more Virginians.
Flanked by business owners who support their stance, House Speaker William Howell, R-Stafford County, and Del. Sam Nixon, R-Chesterfield County, said GOP legislators approved benefits for idled workers but refused the $125 million because it would stall Virginia’s recovery from the recession.
The changes offered by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine “would have led to higher taxes on every job in Virginia, making new job creation significantly more difficult,” Howell said at a news conference in the state Capitol.
Continue ReadingFITB – Stock in Focus for Thursday: FITB
FITB – Stock in Focus for Thursday: FITB
Fifth Third Bancorp
Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) down 6.82% on over 59.5 million shares traded.
Continue ReadingFITB(Fifth Third Bank) names Don Abel as Tennessee market president
Former National Bank of Commerce executive Don Abel has been named market president for Fifth Third Bank’s Tennessee market.
Abel is now in Nashville but before leaving was the community executive for NBC’s nine-bank division and 42-branch network in Memphis.
He joined Fifth Third in 2005 and was a senior vice president and commercial executive for the Tennessee market.
Continue ReadingLewis Testifies U.S. Urged Silence on Deal
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Department chief Henry Paulson pressured Bank of America Corp. to not discuss its increasingly troubled plan to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. — a deal that later triggered a government bailout of BofA — according to testimony by Kenneth Lewis, the bank’s chief executive.
Mr. Lewis, testifying under oath before New York’s attorney general in February, told prosecutors that he believed Messrs. Paulson and Bernanke were instructing him to keep silent about deepening financial difficulties at Merrill, the struggling brokerage giant. As part of his testimony, a transcript of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Lewis said the government wanted him to keep quiet while the two sides negotiated government funding to help BofA absorb Merrill and its huge losses.
“Under normal circumstances, banks must alert their shareholders of any materially significant financial hits. But these weren’t normal times: Late last year, Wall Street was crumbling and BofA faced intense government pressure to buy Merrill to keep the crisis from spreading. Disclosing losses at Merrill — which eventually totaled $15.84 billion for the fourth quarter — could have given BofA’s shareholders an opportunity to stop the deal and let Merrill collapse instead.” I’m seeing a lot of potential litigation and prosecution as this bailout thing unravels. Government (and corporate) lawyers and officials will no doubt protest that they were doing what the country wanted in the face of an unprecedented crisis, but we’ve seen how well that argument plays once the crisis is over . . . .
Continue ReadingUN Program Spotlights Recycle Bank
Ron Gonen of Recycle Bank is named 2009 United Nations Environment Program Champion of the earth. The founder and CEO of Recycle Bank Gonen is one of 7 environmental leaders in the world honored today in Paris.
Champions of the Earth is an international environmental award established in 2004 by the UNEP to acknowledge the best and brightest who have made a significant contribution globally, regionally and beyond, to the protection and sustainable management of the Earth’s environment and natural resources. This year’s award recognizes prominent and inspirational examples of environmental leadership in the areas of Policy Leadership, Science and Innovation, Entrepreneurial Vision, Inspiration and Action, and Next-Generation Champions. Past award winners hail from a diverse background, from presidents and economists, to scientists and philosophers, to religious and civic leaders. Candidates are judged by a senior UNEP panel with input from UNEP’s regional offices.
No monetary reward is attached to the prize. Recycle Bank’s Gonen and each laureate receives a trophy specially designed for the occasion with environmentally-friendly materials.
Continue ReadingRecycle Bank a smart idea
The Recycle Bank is fast becoming a smart idea that is being put to use in many areas of the country. Everyone it seems has jumped on the “Go Green” bandwagon and so many are coming up with ingenious ideas to encourage the majority to “think” green. RecycleBank’s Ron Gonen cofounder and CEO and largest shareholder has come up with the idea of getting compensated by recycling.
If that doesn’t motivate people to recycle what will?
In my article entitled, “Recycling and organizing,” I wrote that I try to reuse many of the things that come into my home first, in that way, the amount that is actually sent to be recycled is reduced. But who wouldn’t want to basically get paid to recycle?
Continue ReadingCarbon Credits Explained
Carbon credits are a key component of national and international attempts to mitigate the growth in concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Carbon trading is an application of an emissions trading approach. Greenhouse gas emissions are capped and then markets are used to allocate the emissions among the group of regulated sources. The idea is to allow market mechanisms to drive industrial and commercial processes in the direction of low emissions or less “carbon intensive” approaches than are used when there is no cost to emitting carbon dioxide and other GHGs into the atmosphere. Since GHG mitigation projects generate credits, this approach can be used to finance carbon reduction schemes between trading partners and around the world.
There are also many companies that sell carbon credits to commercial and individual customers who are interested in lowering their carbon footprint on a voluntary basis. These carbon offsetters purchase the credits from an investment fund or a carbon development company that has aggregated the credits from individual projects. The quality of the credits is based in part on the validation process and sophistication of the fund or development company that acted as the sponsor to the carbon project. This is reflected in their price; voluntary units typically have less value than the units sold through the rigorously-validated Clean Development Mechanism[1].
Credits
The inconvenience of the sky being darkened is nothing to the lasting effects of all the carbon being thrown into the atmosphere and radically changing our climate by trapping the heat from the sun (once the clouds of ash have disappeared).
