Yesterday, shares of healthcare insurer Aetna (AET) announced strong earnings, but also revealed that two executives left and took a computer that had key information pertaining to their customers with them. The stock dropped 20% in one day, and the company's Chairman John W. Rowe said he would be retiring.

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Morgan Stanley has raised the estimates of two IA portfolio stocks, Exxon (XOM) and Marathon (MRO). Here are a few comments by Morgan Stanley;

EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION (XOM)

"Exxon Mobil posted Q1 2006 earnings of $1.37/share, which compares to MS projections of $1.40/share. Unusual items involving litigation, asset actions and an abnormal tax rate penalized results by almost $0

The subject of one North American currency surfaced shortly after the passage of NAFTA in the early 1990's. The originators of NAFTA expelled the rumors of a single currency as a nothing more than conspiracy theory. The reaction to someone who mentions something that is underhanded or sneaky is immediately labeled a conspiracy nut. Since no one wants to be labeled as a paranoid kook, the subje

Today, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the fed may pause at some point to see what impact the recent rate increases have had on the economy. Bank stocks loved the comments, the dollar hated them.

Now that oil prices have calmed down a bit (still high), we are entering a phase we have got to call "Hey whose got the power?" I think there is a song with this title, but I am not referring to the song.

What I am referring to is this;

Does the White House and the Republican's have enough power to repair their oily reputations before the mid-term elections? Can they do it? The