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• ABK: ONLY 1% chance they won’t default!!!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 451
  “Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) — Ambac Financial Group Inc.’s bond- insurance unit faces a 99 percent chance of default, credit derivatives show, as financial institutions brace for the second-largest bond insurer to file a capital update with regulators later today. Swap Payouts Delinquency proceedings against the ...
  5 hours ago

• (ABK) Ambac Financial Group Faces Liquidity Crunch

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 165
  In its quarterly filing on Monday, Ambac Financial Group ( ABK ) revealed that it is facing liquidity constraints. At the end of the third quarter of 2009, the company’s liquidity consisted of $164.7 million of cash, short term investments and bonds. Management is unsure whether this will be sufficient for its ...
  2 days ago

• Another potential fall out from the residential real estate crash

  
  Van Santos — Authority: 436
  Just a heads up to the economic/real estate watchers out there, another casualty may very well be on the way. This time we are looking at bond insurer Ambac . During the last craze Ambac wrote guarantees on mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations.  Guess what happened.  The underlying ...
  5 days ago

• Ambac Warns of Possible Bankruptcy

  
  DealBook — Authority: 773
  Shares of bond insurer Ambac Financial Group sank 33 percent Tuesday after the company warned it may be forced to seek bankruptcy protection if it cannot fix its liquidity problems.
  5 days ago

• Breaking: Ambac may file for bankruptcy

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 451
  OMG: Ambac warns it may file for bankruptcy a week after it reported $2.2B quarterly profit. Market surely can turn upside-down in one week or a day. Bond insurer says it may not have enough money to meet payment due in 2011 Link: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/10/82546/ambac-warns-of-bankruptcy-risk/ ...
  6 days ago

• Calculated Risk: Counterparty Risk: The Mortgage Insurers

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 159
  We have institutional credit risk relating to the potential insolvency or non-performance of mortgage insurers that insure single-family mortgages we purchase or guarantee. As a guarantor, we remain responsible for the payment of ...
  6 days ago

• There must be a mistake, we are in recovery.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 451
  AMBAC Earnings Release: The bond insurer reported $2.87 billion in net unrealized gains on credit derivative contracts during the latest quarter. MBIA Earnings Release: The loss was driven by an $810.2 million pretax unrealized loss on insured credit derivatives Mark To Fantasy accounting has zero standards when ...
  1 week ago

• Ambac Unit May Be Placed Into Receivership

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 641
  Ambac Financial Group’s (ABK) bond-insurance unit may be placed into receivership, as unit’s statutory capital as of Sept. 30 “could very well be in a deficit,” Andrew Wessel, a JPMorgan (JPM) analyst wrote in a report today, according to Bloomberg.Ambac, the second-largest bond...
  1 week ago

• Unusual 11 Mid-Day Movers 11/04: PACR, ABK, AGYS, RHB Higher; ST...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 164
  Pacer International (NASDAQ: PACR) 53.5% HIGHER; reports Q3 EPS of $0.02, 3 cents better than the analyst estimate of ($0.01). STEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC) 36.2% LOWER; reports Q3 EPS of $0.50, 3 cents better than the analyst estimate of $0.47. Revenue for the quarter was $98.30 million, which compares to the estimate of ...
  1 week ago

• (MBI) MBIA Incorporated Slashed Sub-Investment Grade

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 165
  Note: We are re-issuing this post after correcting a mistake in the original post that ran yesterday. As a result of another sign of dwindling confidence about MBIA Incorporated’s (MBI) business prospects, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded its ratings on the parent company as well as its ...
  6 weeks ago

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