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The Motley Fool
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Can MBIA Revive in 2012? Let's look at this year's prospects for this company.   |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
This Could Be the End of Bond Insurance Just when it started to look a little better, bond insurers face a fatal blow. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bond Insurers Smile, for Now It hasn't been a great year for the bond-insurance business so far. Even with Tuesday's massive gains, both Ambac Financial and MBIA remain down 70% and 33% for 2008, respectively. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2008
Morgan Housel |
MBIA's Foggy Future MBIA, one of the world's largest bond-insurance companies, announces a fourth-quarter loss, but despite a murky outlook, management stays confident. |
InternetNews
July 17, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Fresh Facing Yahoo Finance Yahoo upgraded its popular finance pages today, introducing new charts, adding features to its message boards, and making way for more user-generated content. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
MBIA Shares Popped, Then Gave It All Back: What You Need to Know Shares of bond insurer MBIA started off the day on a strong note, rising as much as 14% before losing nearly all of that gain as the day wore on. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Ambac Financial Will Burn Your Portfolio Ambac's days of lucrative profits could be a thing of the past, and that's the best-case scenario. Even under that rosy outcome, there's still little reason to hold Ambac. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2002
Lauren Raymond |
Nobody's Fool Real estate investors of all levels turn to The Motley Fool's discussion board to ask questions, share information and learn from peers... |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2008
Sham Gad |
What a Rating Downgrade Really Means Repercussions of bond rating downgrades could wreak havoc on investors. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Bonding With Buffett Warren Buffett plans to start a bonding agency for local and state governments. |
Investment Advisor
March 2008
Marlene Y. Satter |
Mortgaging the Future The impact of the subprime on the insurance industry could be huge. |
InternetNews
January 31, 2008
Paul Shread |
Google Miss Caps Volatile Day for Stocks Google found out just how jittery investors have become when they sent the company's shares plunging for results that were just shy of Wall Street estimates... TiVo soared on a big patent win... The Federal Reserve has slashed interest rates ... etc. |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
MBIA Disappoints; Stock Rises Investors speculate that the worst could be over for this bond insurer. |
The Motley Fool
March 6, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Is This the Last Straw for Ambac? Bond insurers may be running out of options. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2010
Morgan Housel |
RIP, Ambac A long time coming, Ambac finally bites the dust. |
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Ambac Obliterated: Is This the End? Reacting to sour news, shares of Ambac plummet to their lowest levels ever since the company went public in 1991. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2010
Travis Hoium |
MBIA Shares Popped: What You Need to Know MBIA shares jumped 10% in intraday trading along with the mortgage insurance sector as investors speculate they will be able to put-back private mortgage insurance claims on big banks. |
The Motley Fool
September 3, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
This Week's Biggest Movers This weekly column looks at the reason behind the largest stock-price movers of the week. Take a look at: Freddie Mac... Fannie Mae... MBIA... Ambac... Talbots... |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Lowe's Still Up Investors, forget the Lowe's-vs.-Home Depot garbage. Both retailers are great, but different. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2008
Sham Gad |
When to Sell Isn't That Important The key is buying at the right price. Investors usually focus on selling instead of buying when thinking about their stock portfolio. |
InternetNews
February 25, 2008
Paul Shread |
Investors Bond With Stocks Stocks soared Monday on news that bond insurers will hold onto their top credit ratings... Dell gained ahead of its results... Google was a notable laggard... etc. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
2011 Could Have Been Worse for MBIA As a key player in the mortgage-bond insurance industry, MBIA suffered greatly during the housing crash. |
InternetNews
February 22, 2008
Paul Shread |
Stocks Stage Dramatic Rebound Tech stocks took a back seat Friday, as bond insurers led the way first lower and then higher... Intuit and Cbeyond fell sharply... Sigma Designs fell on a downgrade... etc. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2011
Devin Leonard |
Bill Ackman's Soft Power The hedge fund manager is an open, friendly, talkative guy who makes a lot of companies -- MBIA, Target, etc. -- miserable |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2008
Emil Lee |
Stay Rational in the Downturn It's been a bloodbath in the markets as lately, with investors, banks, and investment banks all trying to stay afloat in a sea of red ink. Here are some points to remember before you panic. |
Financial Advisor
March 2008
Marla Brill |
Managing The Municipal Malaise With bond insurer ratings on the brink and hedge funds fresh off a selling spree, the normally staid municipal bond market has taken on a more volatile profile over the last few months. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Moody's Blues Debt-ratings agency Moody's watches its earnings and reputation erode, as the once-lucrative business of rating batches of collateralized debt obligations has begun to sour. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2011
Evan Niu |
MBIA Shares Popped Then Gave It Back: What You Need to Know Shares of bond insurer MBIA popped this morning by 11%, but have given it all back and are sitting slightly in the red as of this writing, after it settled an ongoing suit with Morgan Stanley. |
Registered Rep.
June 9, 2008 |
Credit Downgrades, More Write-Downs And The ARS Market Credit downgrades to MBIA and AMBAC Financial Group, the world's largest bond insurers, will lead to more write-downs at Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and UBS, according to a new research report. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2008
Paul Shread |
Stocks Stage Dramatic Rebound U.S. stocks staged a dramatic turnaround on reports of a possible rescue of troubled bond insurers, but Apple and Motorola were left behind. |
The Motley Fool
February 19, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bond Insurers' Bait and Switch Bond insurers Ambac and privately held FGIC are both throwing around the possibility of breaking themselves apart, separating their still-stable municipal divisions from their roiled CDO departments. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2011
Tom Jacobs |
Bill Ackman Is High on Lowe's Need a great place to find stock ideas? Look no further than the quarterly 13F filings put out by the super investors. Today, Pershing Square activist Bill Ackman. |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Ambac Financial Shares Popped Again: What You Need to Know Ambac Financial shares are up 10% today, continuing a rally we saw yesterday. |
