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The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 Morgan Housel	Talk of Bailing Out Bond Insurers Sparks Wild Ride In the past three days, bond-insurance giants have been on a seesaw that has spun the heads of even the most iron-stomached investors.
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The Motley Fool February 22, 2008 Christopher Barker	Bucking ze Trend, non? French bank BNP Paribas shows the world how it's done. Despite crisis-related losses of $872 million for the quarter, the bank managed to post a $1.48 billion profit.
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The Motley Fool February 13, 2008 Morgan Housel	Buffett Offers Bond Insurers a Hand ... Maybe Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announces that it will offer the three largest bond insurers, Ambac, MBIA, and FGIC, the opportunity to essentially turn over the tax-free municipal portion of their bond insurance portfolio to Berkshire.
BusinessWeek November 12, 2007 Matthew Goldstein	Wall Street's Next Worry The credit crisis is spreading from Wall Street to a less well known corner of the financial world, that of the bond insurers. An obscure company called ACA Capital might spark the explosion.
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Registered Rep. May 27, 2004 David A. Gaffen	High-End Investment Advice Grows Globally The private banking industry is growing at a level not seen since the late 1990s, reflecting not only an increase in the market but also an influx of new money into these firms.
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Registered Rep. August 1, 2008 Nate Wendler	Capital Destroyers This chart depicts the write-downs and reserves taken by financial firms, and shows the shocking destruction of capital, as measured by book value and earnings.
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The Motley Fool February 1, 2008 Brian Lawler	Credit Crisis Bites Big Pharma Bristol-Myers Squibb takes a $275 million writedown in its investment portfolio for the quarter.
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Registered Rep. October 26, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	UBS Stops the Bleeding, Adds Retail Client Assets Clients assets at UBS Wealth Management Americas outpaced withdrawals in its latest third-quarter results, a singular achievement last reported by the brokerage unit in the first quarter of 2009.
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