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Moody, President of National Western Life Insurance Company , announced today third quarter 2009 consolidated net losses of $1.1 million, or $0.32 per diluted Class A share, compared with consolidated net losses of $9.8 million, or $2.78 per diluted Class A share, reported for the third quarter of 2008.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/526925306</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:51:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>American Income Life Interviews for 1,000 Additional Sales and Sales Management Openings (PR Newswire)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/091106/da06803.html?.v=1</link><description>American Income Life Insurance Company , a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Torchmark Corporation announces Local Job Fair. AIL has experienced continuous expansive growth and is seeking to contract many additional sales and sales management positions.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2775443256</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:10:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>[$$] Profit With Protective Life (at Barrons.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/barrons/rss/SIG=11vd83gl1/*http%3A//online.barrons.com/article/SB125746029025731975.html?ru=yahoo&amp;mod=yahoobarrons</link><description>Profit With Protective Life Though shares tumbled Thursday, Protective has 50% upside, says Sterne Agee.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3090116258</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:58:53 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Delphi Drives Ahead (Zacks.com)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/zacks/091106/26970.html?.v=1</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/889283075</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:03:01 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Manulife Financial Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript (at Seeking Alpha)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/trsa/rss/SIG=13auis16c/*http%3A//seekingalpha.com/article/171701-manulife-financial-corporation-q3-2009-earnings-call-transcript?source=yahoo</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/4062912460</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:55:16 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>[$$] Manulife Surprises with Loss for Quarter (at The Wall Street Journal Online)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/wsj/rss/SIG=11r5avsav/*http%3A//online.wsj.com/article/SB125746953008932483.html?ru=yahoo&amp;mod=yahoo_hs</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/2916049704</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:38:05 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Citizens, Inc. 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Palmer appointed to Manulife Board of Directors (CNW Group)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/091105/manulife_palmer_board.html?.v=1</link><description></description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/283643800</guid><pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:03:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Manulife Financial Corporation declares dividends (CNW Group)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/091105/manulife_fin_dividend.html?.v=1</link><description>Manulife Financial Corporation&apos;s Board of Directors today declared a quarterly shareholders&apos; dividend of $0.13 per share on the common shares of Manulife Financial Corporation , payable on and after December 21, 2009 to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 17, 2009.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/1050544815</guid><pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:02:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Manulife Financial Corporation Reports Third Quarter Results (CNW Group)</title><link>http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/news/rss/story/*http://biz.yahoo.com/cnw/091105/manulife_q3_09_reslts.html?.v=1</link><description>Manulife Financial Corporation today reported a net loss attributed to shareholders of $172 million for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009, compared to net income of $510 million in the third quarter of 2008.</description><guid isPermaLink="false">yahoo_finance/3251483496</guid><pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:01:00 Etc/GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss><!-- c15.finance.sp2.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Sat Nov  7 18:42:43 PST 2009 -->
