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	<title>Stock Investment Blog&#124;Journal of Stock Investments&#124;Portfolio &#187; Ambac Financial Group Inc</title>
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		<title>US HOT STOCKS: Genesco, Giant Interactive, Greif</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[US HOT STOCKS: Genesco, Giant Interactive, Greif -2-
Last Update: 8/28/2008 2:36:57 PM
Among the companies whose shares are actively trading in Thursday&#8217;s session are
MBIA Inc. (MBI), Zale Corp. (ZLC), Gerber Scientific Inc. (GRB).
MBIA ($14.99, $3.01, 25.10%) said it will receive about $741 million for
reinsuring a $184 billion portfolio of U.S. public finance bonds insured by
Financial Guaranty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bond and mortgage insurers jump on MBIA deal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MBIA rallies on reinsurance deal
Bond, mortgage insurers gain early; investors mull Fannie shakeup
By John Spence, MarketWatch
Last Update: 8/28/2008 1:11:00 PM
BOSTON (MarketWatch) &#8212; Shares of mortgage and bond insurers rallied Thursday on
news that MBIA Inc. is in a deal to reinsure billions of dollars in municipal
bonds, showing the embattled bond insurer is able to attract new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stocks in focus for Tuesday: Alcoa, Pepsi Bottling, Sealy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; Among the companies whose shares are expected to
see active trade in Tuesday&#8217;s session are Alcoa Inc., Pepsi Bottling Group Inc.,
and Sealy Corp.
Alcoa (AA) is expected to report second-quarter earnings of 66 cents a share,
according to analysts surveyed by FactSet Research.
Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) is forecast to post earnings of 75 cents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lorillard to replace Ambac Financial in S&#038;P 500 Index</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) &#8212; Tobacco company Lorillard Inc. will replace Ambac
Financial Group Inc. in the S&#038;P 500 Index , Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s said Tuesday
evening. The change will occur after the close of trading June 10. Lorillard is
being distributed via a two-tiered process that involves the retirement of a
portion of tracking stock Carolina Group , and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Ambac Wrote Down $228M In CDOs In April Amid Woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 
Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) said it wrote down $228 million in
collateralized-debt obligations in April as it continues to be weighed down by
the credit crunch.
In a monthly update on its pretax financial data, the second-largest bond insurer
also reported a $53.4 million loss on fair-value changes in its investment
portfolio more than offset [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambac Responds to Article Related to Its Second Lien RMBS Exposure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambac Responds to Article Related to Its Second Lien RMBS Exposure
NEW YORK, May 22, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212; Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (ABK)
(Ambac) today responded to a Credit Sights article published on May 21, 2008 that
calls into question the current level of Ambac&#8217;s loss reserves on its second lien
RMBS exposure. In the article Credit Sights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harbinger Reports Reduced Stakes In Bond Insurers MBIA, Ambac</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 16:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harbinger Reports Reduced Stakes In Bond Insurers MBIA, Ambac
Last Update: 5/15/2008 11:35:11 AM
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners and affiliates reported Thursday reduced
stakes in bond insurers MBIA Inc. (MBI) and Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) in
their first-quarter holdings reports.
At March 31, the hedge fund group reported holding 880,300 shares of MBIA, worth
$10.8 million, down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Home-Equity Losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO (Dow Jones)&#8211;Subprime mortgages were the first sore spot for bond
insurers as falling housing prices hit borrowers hard. But in the first quarter,
home-equity lines of credit have become the new hot spot.
Third-largest bond insurer Financial Security Assurance Ltd. on Wednesday became
the latest to report that its loss projections for those loans rose in the
quarter.
FSA increased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expect Higher Losses On Subprime Home-Equity Deals - Moody&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moody&#8217;s Investors Service said loss expectations on securities backed by subprime
home-equity deals have gotten worse than expected and could have &#8220;material
implications&#8221; on the bond insurers&#8217; capital adequacy.
The credit rater also said again that the industry&#8217;s two biggest players - MBIA
Inc. (MBI) and Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) - could lose their AAA ratings
because of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambac Gets Subpoenas From Conn Atty Genl Over Moody&#8217;s &gt;ABK</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambac Gets Subpoenas From Conn Atty Genl Over Moody&#8217;s >ABK
Last Update: 5/12/2008 7:28:20 PM
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) said Monday that it has received subpoenas from
Connecticut&#8217;s attorney general over his investigation into Moody&#8217;s Investors
Service&#8217;s municipal-bond rating practices.
The New York bond insurer said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission that the &#8220;focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CORRECT: Ambac Bond Claims Not On Countrywide Loans</title>
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		<comments>http://investment-blog.net/correct-ambac-bond-claims-not-on-countrywide-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CORRECT: Ambac Bond Claims Not On Countrywide Loans
Last Update: 5/9/2008 2:58:20 PM
Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) had examined two transactions that contained
loans originated by Bear Stearns Cos. (BSC) and First Franklin Corp. (FFHS).










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		<title>UPDATE: Ambac Says New Business Lags, Sees Opportunities  &#8220;steadily increasing.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 03:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) didn&#8217;t insure any new issue utility or
health-care transactions in the first quarter but said opportunities for
secondary market transactions are &#8220;steadily increasing.&#8221;
The second-largest bond insurer also said in its first-quarter business activity
update that it remains committed to student loans over the long term.
Overall, Ambac said, &#8220;While volume and insured penetration have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Moody&#8217;s: Ambac Still At Risk For Downgrade &gt;ABK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Moody&#8217;s: Ambac Still At Risk For Downgrade >ABK
Last Update: 4/24/2008 12:50:09 PM
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Moody&#8217;s Investor Service said Ambac Financial Group Inc.&#8217;s (ABK) operating unit
is still at risk for a downgrade after the bond insurer posted a $1.66 billion
loss on Wednesday.
Moody&#8217;s said that any further ratings action would be driven by the performance
of the mortgage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambac, MBIA Will Need Big Capital Boost, Goldman Warns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Dow Jones)&#8211;Bond insurers Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) and MBIA
Inc. (MBI) each face about $12 billion in total losses on mortgaged-backed
securities and will need to raise more capital to keep their AAA insurer ratings,
Goldman Sachs told clients Thursday.
Ambac&#8217;s stock fell 43% to $3.46 Wednesday after it stunned investors with a $1.66
billion net loss, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE:Ambac: Business Environment &#8216;Continues To Deteriorate&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shares of Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) fell 42.6% Wednesday to close at an
all-time low of $3.46 as the company revealed subprime losses reaching ever more
deeply into its bond guarantee and credit derivatives businesses.
During its earnings conference call Wednesday, Michael Callen, Ambac&#8217;s chief
executive, said he saw continued deterioration and admitted the market has
performed worse than [...]]]></description>
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