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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>US Economy Won&#8217;t Recover Until Late 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT (Dow Jones)&#8211;U.S. billionaire investor Wilbur Ross doesn&#8217;t see a U.S.
economic recovery coming until late 2009 as middle class America deals with its
debt and stability continues to elude the housing market.
&#8220;The middle class has gone no place in the last half dozen years,&#8221; said Ross
during a stop in Detroit. &#8220;Inflation-adjusted median income has gone down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moody&#8217;s: Municipal-Only Bond Insurers Might Get AAA</title>
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		<comments>http://investment-blog.net/moodys-municipal-only-bond-insurers-might-get-aaa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moody&#8217;s: Municipal-Only Bond Insurers Might Get AAA
Last Update: 7/31/2008 10:31:20 AM
    By Lavonne Kuykendall
    Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)&#8211;Bond insurers that cover only municipal and public purpose
bonds might be more likely to win a top credit rating than insurers that dabble
in securities backed by consumer and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most of 19 short-protected stocks rise, for now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protected stocks rise, helping market &#8212; for now
By Nick Godt, MarketWatch
Last Update: 7/21/2008 2:41:00 PM
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) &#8212; While most of the shares of the 19 financial
institutions protected from illegal short sales by the Securities and Exchange
Commission continued last week&#8217;s advance Monday, concerns about the rest of the
financial sector are still weighing on the market.
&#8220;Nineteen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators try to ease selling pressure on muni bonds</title>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/regulators-try-to-ease-selling-pressure-on-muni-bonds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulators try to ease selling pressure on munis
Insurers can get new ratings on munis backed by downgraded bond insurers
By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch
Last Update: 6:45 PM ET Jun 2, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; Regulators unveiled a plan on Monday that they
hope will relieve pressure on insurance companies to sell municipal bonds backed
by troubled bond insurers.
Several bond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambac stock touches record low after report of new write-downs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 21:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambac shares hit record low after new disclosure
Bond insurer reports CDO write-downs, claim payments from April
By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch
Last Update: 2:56 PM ET May 28, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; Ambac Financial shares fell to a record low on
Wednesday after the bond insurer disclosed new information about its operations
in April.
Ambac reported $228 million of write-downs during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Ambac Wrote Down $228M In CDOs In April Amid Woes</title>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/update-ambac-wrote-down-228m-in-cdos-in-april-amid-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://investment-blog.net/update-ambac-wrote-down-228m-in-cdos-in-april-amid-woes/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>Moody&#8217;s warns again on bond-insurer ratings</title>
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		<comments>http://investment-blog.net/moodys-warns-again-on-bond-insurer-ratings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moody&#8217;s warns on bond-insurer ratings again
This time, second-lien mortgage securities may test ratings, agency says
By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch
Last Update: 4:16 PM ET May 13, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; Poor performance of second-lien residential
mortgage-backed securities could put pressure on the credit ratings of bond
insurers, Moody&#8217;s Investors Service said Tuesday.
Bond insurers have significant exposure to second-lien residential
mortgage-backed [...]]]></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>Moody&#8217;s: second lien RMBS woes may dent bond insurer ratings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; Poor performance of second lien residential
mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) could impact the credit ratings of bond
insurers, Moody&#8217;s Investors Service said on Tuesday. Bond insurers have
significant exposure to second lien RMBS, mainly through guaranties on the
securities and, to a lesser extent, through exposure to collateralized debt
obligations backed by such assets, the rating agency [...]]]></description>
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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>CORRECT: State Street fund manages 6.9% stake in Ambac</title>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/correct-state-street-fund-manages-69-stake-in-ambac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 22:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) &#8212; Investment managers of State Street Corp.&#8217;s State
Street Bank &#038; Trust Co. reported a passive 6.9% stake in bond insurer Ambac Inc.
, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The filing
said that a State Street managed investment fund had just over 7 million shares
of Ambac. The holding was reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkshire&#8217;s Muni Insurer Starts Strongly-Buffett</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 11:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkshire&#8217;s Muni Insurer Starts Strongly-Buffett
Last Update: 5/3/2008 1:38:52 PM
OMAHA, Neb. (Dow Jones)&#8211;Berkshire Hathaway Inc.&#8217;s (BRKA) new bond insurance
business has started strongly, writing more than $400 million of policies on
municipal debt during the first quarter, Chairman Warren Buffett said at the
company&#8217;s annual meeting Saturday.
Most of the policies sold by Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp. have been written
in [...]]]></description>
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