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The Motley Fool
October 7, 2010
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Ambac Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Is this meaningful? Or just another movement?   |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Buy, Sell, or Hold Ambac Financial? Sell. Now. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Ambac Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Shares of Ambac Financial were up more than 10% in intraday trading as investors digested the plan of rehabilitation from the Wisconsin insurance commissioner. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Farewell to Ambac Financial The long fall of Ambac Financial seems to finally be coming to an end. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Ambac Financial Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Ambac Financial Group shares popped 16% in intraday trading today as the market speculates that mortgage insurers will be able to "put-back" private mortgage insurance on big banks. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Place Your Bets on Ambac Financial! Is Ambac getting ready to waive the white flag? |
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
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. |
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
December 10, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
What Foreclosuregate Means for Investors With tales of mortgage securitization "improprieties" and foreclosure fraud on the rise, investors may be wondering which companies will be affected. |
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
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
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
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 19, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
MGIC Investment Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Shares of mortgage insurer MGIC Investment jumped more than 10% in intraday trading, as the company reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings. |
Investment Advisor
March 2008
Marlene Y. Satter |
Mortgaging the Future The impact of the subprime on the insurance industry could be huge. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 13, 2006
Michael Leibert |
Ambac: Basis Points for Sale Tight credit spreads and increasing competition cloud the outlook for this provider of financial guarantees. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Ambac Financial Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Ambac Financial shares fell 13% in trading Monday, as uncertainty about the mortgage insurer's future creeps back into the market. |
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
February 15, 2008
Christopher Barker |
Monoline Hits Bottom Line at UBS The Swiss bank won't be the last to announce a monoline writedown. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Why Financial Stocks Can't Find a Bottom Deplorable balance sheets aren't the only problem. Other big factors hurting financial stocks is that there's a massive slug of both risk and uncertainty. |
U.S. Banker
April 2008 |
The Many Cozy Relationships Of Bond Insurers Some do not view the multi-billion-dollar bank bailout for insurers as a path to recovery but as further enabling of damaging, co-dependent behavior among banks, rating agencies and bond insurers. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Radian Group Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Shares of mortgage insurer Radian Group jumped more than 10% in intraday trading on big volume. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Financial Stocks on the Move There's been no shortage of carnage in the financial industry. Here are some of this week's worst-performing financial stocks and a few tidbits about what's pushing them around. |
The Motley Fool
August 28, 2010
Morgan Housel |
What This Genius Can Teach You About Investing Start investing when the market expects nothing, and valuations are low, and you'll be just fine. That's what Stephen Hawking can teach investors. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Bonding With Buffett Warren Buffett plans to start a bonding agency for local and state governments. |
The Motley Fool
February 6, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bad Buyback, Bad! Today companies often choose to reward shareholders with a simple and popular method investors love: share buybacks. When is it good? When is it bad? |
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
September 2, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Air Comes out of Financial Stocks Geez ... it was about time. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Citigroup: The Master of Low Expectations Everything except an asteroid hitting Earth appears to be baked into the stock price this quarter. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
You Could Have Known About the Bond Insurers Some investors predicted the bond insurers' demise, as early as 2002. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2012
Dan Caplinger |
Could Kodak Still Make You Rich? The NYSE did the right thing with Kodak, but are the shares worthless? |
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
May 27, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Lehman Can't Shake the Shorts Lehman Brothers is back defending itself against those hunting for the next credit-crisis victim. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2007
Richard Gibbons |
The Dangerous Mistake to Avoid Now The market's tempting, but if you make this common mistake, it will kill your portfolio. |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2010
Rich Smith |
Buffett Predicts the Next Crisis It's coming soon to a town near you. Investors think munis are going down. |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
5 More Stocks on Wall Street's Dollar Menu Four quarters for a public company? I have five stocks that mean it. |
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
September 30, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
1 Year Later: The Most Unfairly Punished Stock Plenty of stocks had unwarranted declines during the downturn. Which was the most unfairly punished? |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Anand Chokkavelu |
5 Stocks to Consider Before Buying MGM Consider these five casino and gaming companies first. |
