Crisis deepens for bond insurer
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Ambac Financial, which insures against sub-prime losses,  abandons share sale
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Credit analysts warned on Monday that if  Moody's Investors Service downgraded some specialist bond  insurers it could have far-reaching impact on financial  markets.
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NEW YORK - The corporate pension crisis seems to be going from bad to worse. First, companies struggled to come up with the money to cover their benefit obligations, and now they want to ditch their plans altogether.
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Why the bond insurer's mess could become Wall Street's next disaster.
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Wall Street ended a volatile session mixed on Wednesday as investors wrestled with a troubling outlook for bond insurers and a $9.4 billion write-down at Morgan Stanley.
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INSURERS and travel firms across Europe took a knock yesterday after the devastation caused by the South Asian tsunami sparked fears of substantial financial costs.
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NEW YORK -- The corporate pension crisis seems to be going from bad to worse. First, companies struggled to come up with the money to cover their benefit obligations, and now they want to ditch their plans altogether.
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US investigations into the sale of insurance that can smooth out volatile earnings have widened significantly. Ace, a big Bermuda insurer with extensive operations in the United States, said late Monday that
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American International Group, one of the world&#39;s largest insurers, continues to clash with regulators, but Wall Street seems more puzzled than alarmed.
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The loss of $854 million exceeded fears about how badly the bank was hurt by its subprime mortgage bets.
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Shares of two bond insurers, MBIA Inc. and the Ambac Financial Group, fell sharply on concern they would lose their AAA credit ratings.
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The insurance broker accused by the New York attorney general of bid rigging and price fixing faces another threat: lawsuits filed by angry customers and the company&#39;s own shareholders, who are upset the company&#39;s stock has plummeted.
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This is hyperfinance. In the space of five frenetic days, stock markets have plunged and recovered; the US Federal Reserve has cut interest rates to 3.5 per cent; so-called "monoline" insurers, revealed as a small but vital valve in the financial machinery, have wobbled; and one J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Kerviel has lost EU5bn for a venerable French bank.
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Shares of bond insurers opened strongly Thursday on hopes of a bailout for the beleaguered sector, but ended up falling sharply after Fitch Ratings downgraded Security Capital Assurance.
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An effort to save a troubled hedge fund at Bear Stearns hit a major hurdle when Merrill Lynch threatened to sell off its collateral.
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Big banks try to gird for crises as a  matter of course and investors will soon learn how prepared  they were for this summer&#39;s credit crunch.
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MGIC Investment Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage insurer, recorded another losing quarter on Wednesday, as the bond insurance industry continues to grapple with rising defaults in the U.S. subprime mortgage market.