Market Currents

• Tuesday, August 4, 2009

• 18:30 PM Protective Life (PL): Q2 EPS of $1.16 beats by $0.39. Revenue of $726M vs. $732M. Shares -1.8% AH. (PR) Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable earnings after Tuesday's close: ACAS, AUY, BID, BMC, BRE, CAR, CBL, CEDC, CEPH, CTRP, ERTS, FRT, HLS, JLL, KFT, PL, PXD, SOLR, TSRA, UDR, UNM, VCLK, WFMI, XCO 1 Comment

• Friday, May 15, 2009

• 09:15 AM Premarket gainers: XOMA +35%. EXEL +24%. WX +14%. HIG +14%. LNC +13%. PL +11%. EEE +11%. FUQI +11%. NVAX +10%. ZLC +10%. YGE +9%. ENTU +8%. CNO +7%. LVS +7%. PRU +6%. PFG +6%. CNB +5%. STEM +5%. DRYS +4%.
  Losers: BBI -25%. GU -18%. FE -14%. IRE -8%. YRCW -9%. FIG -6%. IOC -6%. ANF -5%. VNDA -5%. JCP -4%. Comment!

• Monday, May 4, 2009

• 02:51 AM Protective Life (PL): Q1 EPS of $0.86 beats by $0.06. "We expect credit downgrades and impairments to remain at an elevated level, and our stable value account balance should decline." (PR) Comment!
• 00:05 AM Notable earnings before Monday's open: DISCA, EL, ETR, HSIC, PEG, PL, POR, S, SOHU, SYY, TSN Comment!

• Thursday, April 2, 2009

• 14:20 PM Four months after asking for bailout funds, Hartford Financial (HIG), Protective Life Corp. (PL) and Principal Financial Group (PFG) are among a dozen insurers still waiting for an answer. 2 Comments

• Wednesday, February 11, 2009

• 06:51 AM Protective Life (PL): Q4 EPS of $0.80 misses by $0.01. Due to extraordinary market volatility and potential impact of fair value accounting on reported results, won't provide 2009 earnings guidance. (PR) (-from Tue. evening) Comment!

• Tuesday, February 10, 2009

• 15:10 PM Notable earnings after Tuesday's close: AMAT, BGC, CBG, CERN, CF, CSC, FIS, MVSN, NVDA, PL, QSFT, SIAL, VFC, XL Comment!
• 00:10 AM Notable earnings after Tuesday's close: AMAT, BGC, CBG, CERN, CF, CSC, FIS, MVSN, NVDA, PL, QSFT, SIAL, VFC, XL Comment!

• Wednesday, September 24, 2008

• 15:20 PM Citigroup (C) may sell its Primerica life insurance unit to J.C. Flowers and Protective Life (PL), sources say. Analysts think it could go for $7.5B. Comment!