Allege legitimate claims disallowed while trustees rake in excessive charges; 'customer is always shorted'
Market gyrations, low interest rates forces company to scale back; life insurance also nixed here
Connecticut has highest per capita income, but plenty of poor folks; solidly middle class now 'solidly hurting'
Barton Biggs, who trimmed bullish bets in September before U.S. stocks posted the biggest monthly gain since 1991, said that though he doesn't want to be fully invested in equities, “it's hard to get really bearish.”
Uncertainty about what Congress does in 2012 confounding clients, tax planners; 'lot of unhappy people'
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Potential buyers said to have lowered bids substantially in wake of bankruptcy of Jon Corzine's B-D
Stanley Kwan dies of heart failure; creation called 'the ultimate capitalist measure of Hong Kong'
