Filed under: Industry, Competitive Strategy, Amer Intl Group (AIG)

Catastrophe modelers, insurers and reinsurers are still sorting out the damage from Windstorm Xynthia in Europe and the earthquake in Chile. Taking only the highest of high-end estimates, the damage from these two catastrophes could exceed $12 billion, resulting in fairly steep property-catastrophe losses long before hurricane season begins. With three more major property reinsurance renewals remaining for the year — at April 1, June 1 (Florida) and July 1 — there’s plenty of time for the impact of these events to be absorbed into reinsurance pricing.

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Indian film industry hit by losses in 2009: study - YAHOO!
AFP/File – Indian actor Aamir Khan reads a greeting card on his birthday in Mumbai on March 14. India’s film … 8 mins ago MUMBAI (AFP) – India’s film industry revenues declined by nearly 14 percent last year, hit by a damaging producers’ strike

Qualcomm and GreenRoad to Provide Industry’s First - Earthtimes
offer the first integrated solution that addresses mobile resource management (MRM), safety and driving behavior.  The solution, intended for local service fleets, is a combination of Qualcomm’s Service Fleet Manager and the GreenRoad 360?

Research and Markets: Chemicals: China Industry Guide - Forbes
BusinessWire - Research and Markets (http://www detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis with

IBM rethinks industry-standard servers - Zd Net Asia.com
IBM introduced a new class of industry standard servers that it hopes will widen its market share lead and put rivals like HP and Dell on defense. Huge Blue revealed on March 2 its new family of servers dubbed the eX5 portfolio, and it features

Movado to post 4Q loss, industry woes continue - Philadelphia Inquirer
Luxury watch maker Movado Group Inc. on Monday stated 7.6 million related to the writedown of asets and non-cash deferred tax expense of about $11.1 million. That’s partially offset by a cash income-tax benefit of about $8 million. Luxury goods

MU summit focuses on news industry - Columbia Daily Tribune
Top thinkers from the media, business and technology worlds are gathering at the University The school’s Reynolds Journalism Institute is hosting 40 industry leaders, including representatives from Samsung America, Apple, Wal-Mart and The

No maps, less music: China without Google could see loss for Web surfers, industry development - Los Angeles Times
BEIJING (AP) — China without Google — a prospect that looks increasingly likely — could mean no more maps on mobile phones. A free music service that has helped to fight piracy might be in jeopardy. China’s fledgling Web outfits would face less pressure to improve, eroding their ability to one

Research and Markets: 2010 Plimsoll Analysis - Web - Newsblaze.com
The UK Web Hosting market analysis This edition of the Plimsoll Analysis is the most wings the market could be set for a prolonged period of consolidation. David Pattison, author of the new Plimsoll Industry Analysis - Web Hosting, explains, I am

Research and Markets: UK Consumer Electronics Market - TMCnet
Story continues below ↓ WMIs UK Consumer Electronics Market Data & Forecast to 2013 market profile is the essential source for top-level retail industry data and analysis covering UK. The report provides historical data and forecasts for the UK

Research and Markets: Utilities: China Industry Guide - PR Inside
Research and Markets( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ad2fbe/utilities_china_i China Industry Guide : is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the China Utilities industry. It includes detailed data on market size and

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Filed under: Management, Industry, Harley-Davidson (HOG)

How’s this for a kick in the pants: Flying in the face of it’s first quarterly loss in 16 years, a seriously questionable compensation package has just been awarded to the new, short-time CEO of Harley-Davidson Inc. (HOG).

Keith E. Wandell, the new Harley-Davidson CEO, and former COO of Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI), has been awarded a compensation package totaling approximately $6.4 million for his participation in Harley-Davidson operations from Might 2009 through the end of that year. When given the company’s downward slide through 2009, and in consideration of tough times ahead for those who survive on high-end discretionary spending, might there be cause to wonder if Mr. Wandell’s compensation package is just a tad excessive?

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It was only a matter of time. Where there are catastrophe losses, there’s talk of reinsurance rate increases.

In light of the high catastrophe losses from the Chilean earthquake, which could reach $8 billion, reinsurers are now signaling that they may try to raise rates at the next renewal. QBE Insurance (QBEIF) believes that rate increases might be necessary, as reinsurers try to recapture capital depleted by quake-related payouts.

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ANALYSIS-McCann’s UBS brokerage revival a race against - CNN Money
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch veteran Robert McCann received a warm welcome when he strode onto the stage before UBS shareholders last November, his debut as savior of the Swiss bank’s bloodied U.S. brokerage unit. McCann assured his audience

Senator Calls For Aggressive Financial Reform, Deplores - Huffingtonpost.com
A senator is calling for the break-up of megabanks and a firmer separation between Main Street banking and Wall Street trading, joining the ranks of leading economists and business titans demanding aggressive financial reform far beyond what the

West Bend Mutual forms worker’s comp division - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Called Argent, the new unit will provide businesses owners with services related to worker’s compensation claims and costs, the insurer stated. “Argent’s focus will be on business owners who have a sincere desire to improve their worker’s compensation

GE Takes CUDA Beyond Graphics To New Classes Of - Yahoo Finance
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In the first of a series of planned announcements, GE Intelligent Platforms this day announced the IPN250 Rugged 6U OpenVPX Single Board Personal (SBC), the first rugged SBC to feature an integrated GPGPU (general

Democrats try to finish health care reform - CNN
He is also planning to take his increasingly populist, anti-insurance industry message back on the road early next week, delivering yet another reform speech in the political battleground say of Ohio. The president delivered passionate, campaign

Compugen Sponsors Search for Canadian Green IT - Stockhouse
Compugen Inc. is pleased to announce that it is a diamond-level sponsor of a new important Canadian Green IT Initiative. Canada’s Smartest IT is an initiative spearheaded by Info-Tech Research Group of London, Ontario, in association with ITWorld

Kansas City School Board Closes Nearly Half Of City’s - Huffingtonpost.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City’s school superintendent stated Thursday the plan to shutter almost half the district’s schools, while “painful,” will move forward quickly so that all the closures will be complete by fall. The school board narrowly

Changing Channels, From Cable to the Web - New York Times
Lauren Reinhold and Kent Clasen check Netflix offerings with their kids, Jules, 2, and Miles, 8. These days, they are still out there, but they’ve rivals in the realm of zealotry: people who do watch TV — sometimes plenty of it

What’s not fun about Assassin’s Creed 2 - CNN
Ubisoft is part of a lucrative industry that’s doing everything it can to protect its content. Video games made $20.2 billion in 2009 and $22.11 billion the year before (the industry blames the recession for the slight dip). Estimates abound on what

Caterpillar Contemplating Shift of Excavator Production - Yahoo Finance
“The study is based on the current analysis of where the global excavator market is heading and how Caterpillar should position itself for continued leadership in the excavator industry,” stated Gary Stampanato , Caterpillar vice president with

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Sources: U.S.-born al-Qaida spokesman caught - MSNBC
KARACHI, Pakistan - Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida, has been captured in Pakistan, government sources stated Sunday. Gadahn was arrested in recent days, two officers who took part in the operation told The Associated Press. A

Underemployment a Growing Problem, Even as the Job Market Turns - Daily Finance
With the unemployment rate holding steady at 9.7% in February , after dropping from 10% in January, confidence is growing that the job market is finally turning around. But as with all statistics, the unemployment data are complex and a single number

US troops withdrawing en masse from Haiti - WTOP Radio
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - U.S. troops are withdrawing from the shattered capital, leaving many Haitians anxious that the most visible portion of international is ending even as the city is still mired in misery and vulnerable to unrest. As troops

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 and G10 Micro Four Thirds Cameras: G2 Gets - Gizmodo
Panasonic has pulled the sheets off two new Lumix Micro Four Thirds cameras: the touchscreen DMC-G2 and the super light G10. Both shoot 720p video, but the G2’s bendy, touch control screen makes it a Micro Four Thirds stand out. The DMC-G2 is the

Oscars may go dark for New Yorkers due to Cablevision- ABC fee dispute - CNN Money
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Cablevision customers in the New York area are wondering if they’re going to be able to watch the Oscars Sunday night. After fee negotiations appeared to collapse between the cable operator and the Walt Disney Company, the

Al-Qaida calls on US Muslims to attack America - MSNBC
Gadahn stated fighters should target mass transportation systems in the West and also wreak havoc “by killing or capturing people in government, industry and the media.” He suggested finding ways to shake “consumer confidence and stifle spending” and

Red-light cameras gain popularity, but whether they improve safety is - Denver Post
Lone Tree police Sgt. Scott Cavenah looks over still photos and video from red-light cameras for potential violators Tuesday. He rejects about 113 potential tickets per intersection each month after review. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post ) Traffic

For sale Samsung I5700 Galaxy Spica = $239,HTC Pure = $204 - Isthmus Daily Page
We are wholesalers of electronic products company in United Kingdom. We sell mainly electronics products. Such as mobile phones, Video Games Console, laptops etc.we dropship to our customers everywhere in the world and also we’ll like our customers

CSNews Exclusive on William Laufer: Face of the Beer Industry to the C - CSNews On the internet
March 07, 2010 - ST. LOUIS — 7-Eleven CEO Joe DePinto is not the only industry executive who can work inside a c-store to learn more about the day-to-day challenges of the people on the front lines. Seventeen years ago, William “Willie” Laufer also

Keep on Trucking - Wall Street Journal
JEFFREY BALL: At some point you departed from many of your brethren in the oil industry. What got you launched on this campaign? T. BOONE PICKENS: I kept seeing people that ran for president, Republican or Democrat, say, “Elect me and we’ll be energy

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TiVo Inc. (TIVO) hinted about a new product a week ago, and this week it was introduced. The digital video recorder pioneer announced a new set-top box that will combine over-the-air/cable/satellite viewing and recording along with web-based video content sources such as Netflix and YouTube. Need to browse for previews on prime-time shows from Amazon on Demand before you DVR it from the local cable company — right from the same device and interface? No problem.

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Bob Lutz, GM vice chairman and longtime auto industry executive, to - Stockhouse
DETROIT - Bob Lutz, the longtime auto industry The whole organization, top to bottom, now has absolute product superiority as the highest objective which enables all others. So, I have the ability to retire in peace.” Lutz, GM’s vice-chairman and a former U.

Breakthrough Stock Trinity Industries announces Quarterly Cash - Transworld News
Trinity Industries Inc. (NYSE:TRN) announces a quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share. Trinity Industries is based out of Dallas, Texas and is a multi-industry company that owns a variety of market-leading businesses which provide products and

North Dakota agency: Tourism increased last year - BusinessWeek
Tourism Director Sara Otte Coleman says some of the increases can be attributed to more activity in western North Dakota’s oil patch. She says the state is a bright spot as the tourism industry struggles nationally.

IMS Health Named to FORTUNE’s ‘Most Admired Companies’ List - Consumer Electronics Net
IMS Health, the world’s leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, has been named to the World’s Most Admired Companies list, and the Healthcare: Pharmacy and Other Services Industry Most Admired List for

Research and Markets: Investments in Medical Equipment Industry - TMCnet
deals that took place in the medical equipment market Geographies covered include - North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, South & Central America, and Middle East & Africa League Tables of financial advisors in M&A and equity/debt offerings.

U.S. thinks about challenging China in WTO - China Post
The U.S. Trade Representative’s office is consulting with industry groups about China’s World wide web policies, spokeswoman Carol Guthrie stated. Two groups with links to Google, the Computer & Communications Industry Association and the First Amendment

Yahoo Set to Open Checkbook for Audience, Technologies - Advertising Age
SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — Yahoo’s CEO, Carol Bartz, had words of thanks for the advertising industry as she spoke earlier this week at the 4A’s Transformation Conference — thanks for its support the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal that recently won

Yahoo CEO Calls AOL A “Mini Yahoo,” Defines Patchwork Strategy For - TechCrunch
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz continued the to talk about Yahoo’s regrouping strategy at an advertising industry conference earlier this week. She touched on the topics we covered in our post last week, The Steady, Efficient Decline Of Yahoo. Specifically

Stock market: Dow turns positive for the year ahead of jobs report - USA This day
NEW YORK — Optimism about the government’s February jobs report sent the Dow Jones industrials back into the black for 2010. Stocks ended Thursday with a moderate advance after managing only modest moves for much of the day. Investors seemed to set

Research and Markets: China Gem and Jade Mining Industry, 2010 - PR Inside
Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/01fcc2/china_gem_and_jade : ) has announced the addition of the ” China gem and jade mining industry, 2010 : ” report to their offering. China gem and jade mining Industry, 2010 is valuable

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JSSI® Appoints Avcon Jet as Sales Representative in Europe Avcon to - Helicopter Association International
With its highly qualified flight staff, accompanied by a skilled team of legal and fiscal specialists, with experience in the banking, finance and insurance industries, the company is well equipped for future expansion. Over the coming years, Avcon

Hall of Fame changes voting procedures - ESPN.com
The National Museum of Racing has changed its voting procedures that determine which horses, jockeys, and trainers are elected into the racing industry’s Hall of Fame, according to the organization. Under the new system, four candidates for the Hall

Obama: Give health care an ‘up or down’ vote - MSNBC
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote “up or down” on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster. “I

GM’s Bob Lutz to retire - CNN Money
New York (CNNMoney.com) — General Motors on Wednesday announced that its vice chairman will retire on May 1. Bob Lutz will step down in two months, ending a 47-year career in the auto industry that included tours of duty at BMW, Chrysler and Ford

Bob Lutz, GM’s ‘ultimate car guy,’ to retire - WTOP
DETROIT (AP) - Bob Lutz, the longtime auto industry executive who led nearly a complete overhaul of General Motors’ lineup, will retire Might 1. “My work here’s done,” the 78-year-old executive said in an e-mail to The Associated Press from the Geneva

Ford Tops U.S. Auto Market’s 13% Growth in February - Advertising Age
DETROIT (AdAge.com) — Ford Motor Co. led the U.S. industry to a 13% sales gain in February while topping General Motors Co. in monthly sales for the first time in 12 years, Automotive News reports today. Ford’s U.S. sales were powered by gains for

Stock market: Stocks end blended as Fed points to slow pace of recovery - USA Today
The Fed’s assessment dampened some of the enthusiasm that followed an upbeat report on services industries and more takeover news earlier in the Advancing stocks narrowly outpaced those that fell on the New York Stock Exchange . Trading volume

GM Vice Chairman Lutz Announces Plan to Retire Might 1 (Update1) - Bloomberg
March 3 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Co. Vice Chairman Bob Lutz , who helped lead each U.S. automaker over a 47-year career, will retire May 1 after Chief Executive Officer Ed Whitacre relegated him to an advisory role. Lutz had stated he planned to

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Filed under: Major Movement, International Markets, Industry, Commodities

Industrial metals like copper, aluminum and iron ore are basic to economic development. China, with its explosive growth needs these metals.

Word of this has spread around the world, bringing speculators into the markets. China is the world’s biggest consumer of aluminum and copper. Armed with that knowledge, speculators drove the price of copper up 48% in the second half of 2009.

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