Hot Insurance Stocks To Invest In 2014

On Tuesday, Travelers (NYSE: TRV  ) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they'll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever surprises inevitably arise. That way, you'll be less likely to have an uninformed, knee-jerk reaction that turns out to be exactly the wrong move.

For Travelers, the only property and casualty insurance company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI  ) , no news is generally good news. Admittedly, the winter months weren't entirely free of incident, with some substantial snowstorms hitting various areas of the country, but the losses didn't rival the impact of Hurricane Sandy. Let's take an early look at what's been happening with Travelers over the past quarter and what we're likely to see in its quarterly report.

Hot Insurance Stocks To Invest In 2014: Nautilus Minerals Com Npv (NUS.TO)

Nautilus Minerals Inc., an exploration stage company, engages in the exploration and development of the ocean floor for copper, gold, silver, and zinc deposits in Australasia. The company holds interest in Solwara 1, a seafloor copper-gold project located at 1600 meters water depth in the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea. As of March 26, 2012, it had approximately 600,000 square kilometers of prospective exploration acreage in the western Pacific; and in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Tonga, as well as in the eastern Pacific. The company has a strategic partnership agreement with Harren & Partner to own and operate a production support vessel that would serve as the operational base to extract copper and gold in the Solwara 1 project. Minerals Inc. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Hot Insurance Stocks To Invest In 2014: Contact Exploration Inc. (CEX.V)

Contact Exploration Inc. engages in the exploration for and production of petroleum and natural gas in Atlantic and western Canada. The company holds interests in various areas of Stoney Creek, Hillsborough, and Edgett�s Landing, New Brunswick, Canada. It also holds interests in various overriding and carried interests located in Nova Scotia; and conventional prospects at the Parson�s Pond located in Newfoundland, Canada. Contact Exploration Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

10 Best Energy Stocks To Buy Right Now: Thai Village Holdings Ltd (596.SI)

Thai Village Holdings Ltd., an investment holding company, engages in operating, managing, and franchising restaurants primarily in Singapore, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. It operates 6 self-managed restaurants and 13 franchised restaurants. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Singapore.