Stories Related to Metlife Reports Loss After Website Snafu

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Fri, 04/20/2012 - 9:12am

MetLife said it swung to a loss on increased derivative losses, releasing the preliminary results nearly two weeks ahead of schedule after inadvertently posting some quarterly data on its website late Wednesday.

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