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Four MN Insurers to Return $73M to State

HealthPartners, Medica, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and UCare last year agreed to cap their 2011 profits from insurance coverage to low-income Minnesotans at an amount equal to 1 percent of revenue; they pledged to return the rest to taxpayers.

S&P Considers Cutting Best Buy Credit Rating to “Junk”

S&P said that Best Buy's recently announced cost-cutting measures, which involve closing 50 big-box stores and opening 100 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores, indicate that "its current business model is not working and that the steps taken to date have not been enough to improve performance."