| Stocks jump on Ambac hopes - 120 sec
Feb. 22 - U.S. stocks staged a remarkable last minute recovery on hopes a face-saving deal can be reached with troubled bond insurer Ambac. The Dow climbed 96 points in the last 30 minutes of the trading day to close at 12,381. The S&P 500 rose 10 points to 1,353. The Nasdaq gained 3 points to 2,303. Crude oil prices hovered near $99 a barrel.
Conway Gittens reports from New York.
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| UCGO AMBAC - 262 sec
My Hellish UCGO AMBAC Training
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| Charlie Gasparino attempts his daily Ambac pump - 56 sec
From CNBC'S "The Call" 2008-03-06
Doesn't he look and sound like some prisoner of war being forced to read from a script? Poor guy is almost choking on his own words.
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| Ambac CEO Speaks While Stock Falls 20% - 385 sec
Robert Genader Ambac CEO talks on CNBC.
No mention of him selling into a stock buyback:
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| Sandra Smith on AMBAC - 204 sec
Fox Business Network's Sandra Smith reports on the AMBAC rumors today.
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| Bill Ackman on MBIA & bond insurers, Blmbrg TV, 1/10/08 - 560 sec
Bill Ackman's comments on MBIA & the bond insurers, Blmbrg TV, 1/10/08. (Disclosure: Funds managed by Whitney Tilson are short MBIA and Ambac.)
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| ABK BobChart 20080215 - 48 sec
Resistance BobChart
http://www.BobCharts.com This is today's chart for Ambac Financial Group.
Ambac Financial Group closed at 10.22.
The nearest support is 56.0 percent below the close at 4.50.
The nearest resistance is 49.71 percent above the close at 15.30.
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| Make Money Online Trading Stock Symbol ABK 20080307 - 60 sec
http://www.SupportLineAlerts.com This is today's BobChart for Ambac Financial Group.
Ambac Financial Group closed at 9.50.
The nearest support is 52.6 percent below the close at 4.50.
The nearest resistance is 37.89 percent above the close at 13.10.
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| UCGO-Space Battle - 359 sec
Universal century Gundam Online. Took thsi film while ambac trainning
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| Patriot News Hour_6/20/08:Taking The Mark of The Beast! pt2 - 655 sec
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MBIA, Ambac fall as AAA ratings downgraded
Shares of bond insurers Ambac Inc. and MBIA Inc. fell more than 6% each ahead of the opening bell Friday, retreating after Moody's Investors Service cut their AAA ratings on worries about further mortgage-related write-downs. Late Thursday, Moody's also downgraded Ambac's insurance financial strength rating to Aa3 and lowered MBIA's insurance financial strength rating to A2. The ratings agency said it took the action against MBIA on concerns about the bond insurer's financial flexibility and what it called its "impaired franchise," adding that there remains "substantial risk within its portfolio of insured exposures." Moody's said it remained concerned about both companies' continuing exposure to an embattled housing market, particularly their involvement in collateralized debt obligations, securities related to real estate known as CDOs.
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| PONENCIA DE JOSÉ ALBERTO GONZÁLEZ SOLANO. CHIHUAHUA 2008 - 219 sec
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Esto es un PRIMER ESTRACTO de la Ponencia de Alberto González en Chihuahua, durante las XXXIX Jornadas Mexicanas de Biblioteconomía, AMBAC 2008.
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| Barack Obama -- 2009 Pakistan War - 394 sec
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| Deals Intelligence: 07-08-08 - 179 sec
Deals Intelligence with Matthew Toole of the Deals Intelligence Team at Thomson Reuters for the week of 07-08-08
Transcript:
I'm Matt Toole with the Investment Banking Division of Thomson Reuters and this week's Deals Intelligence highlighting trends in the US Municipal Bond Market.
Volume Despite the complete deterioration of the some subsets of the market, municipal bonds were one of the few areas within the global credit markets to show positive growth over last year's activity.
As a small bit of background, municipal bonds provide financing for cities, states, local governments and agencies and are generally tax-free - providing attractive opportunities for a variety of investors. The global credit crisis has only affected a few areas of this particular market and most muni bond issuers continue to have access to financing opportunities.
For the first half of this year, the volume of US long-term municipal bond new issues was nearly unchanged from a year earlier. Volume through the second quarter totaled 226 billion dollars, a 1.3% decline from the 229 billion dollars issued during the same period last year. First six month volume represented the second highest first half volume since 2000.
One particularly hard hit component of the market was in the area of Auction Rate Securities. Auction Rate Securities are long-term securities in which the interest rates paid to investors are determined at auction in regular intervals. Clearly affected by the
dislocation in the markets and the refusal of investors and banks to bid at auction , not one new Auction Rate municipal bond came to market during the first half of 2008 compared to 154 bonds during the first half of 2007.
In another area of the market, many municipalities have historically utilized bond insurance to improve the underlying credit of their overall financing. Big bond insurers including MBIA, Ambac, FSA and Assured Guaranty have exposure to many sections of the bond market and are now facing credit downgrades themselves and are in the midst of raising capital to shore up their once strong balance sheets. As a result, just 27% of new municipal bonds so far this year have come to market with bond insurance compared to 54% last year at this time. MBIA and Ambac, the market leaders for bond insurance over the past few years have nearly stopped insuring new bonds, registering a 90% decline in their municipal insurance business.
Among underwriters of municipal bonds, Citigroup ranked number one for the first half of the year with 14.6% of the market, while Merrill Lynch ranked second with 9.9% of the market. JP Morgan, which now includes the municipal bond business of Bear Stearns rounded out the top three with 9% of the market. As a sign of the challenging economic times for investment banks, UBS which ranked fourth last year and has been a perennial leader in municipal bond underwriting, announced in June that it would exit the municipal bond business. UBS fell to seventh place during the first half of the year.
For additional quarter-end coverage on Municipal Bonds and more trends and analysis on M&A and Capital Markets, be sure to check out our quarterly investment banking reviews available at thomsonreuters.com/league.
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| Jim Cramer on Financials - 583 sec
Jim Cramer explains, rants and raves about the current financial crisis on CNBC Squawk Box's
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| Whitney Tilson on the mortgage crisis, C N B C Fast Money - 506 sec
Whitney Tilson on the mortgage crisis, C N B C Fast Money, 3/20/08. Funds managed by Mr. Tilson are short MBIA, Ambac, PMI, Radian, Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns.
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| Whitney Tilson on Financials - 368 sec
carnage
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| Bond Insurers Out of the Woods Yet? (Morningstar) - 523 sec
Morningstar Analyst Jim Ryan explains why this once-sleepy industry is now making headlines and moving the market.
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| Squawkbox: On The Radar 11-02-07 - 66 sec
Squawkbox market analysis with John Forman from Thomson Financial
Transcript:
Hi, this is John Forman with your Squawk Box: On the Radar
A group of stocks that until recently few traders had probably even heard of has been at the forefront of the market weakness in recent sessions. They are the mortgage insurers. I'm referring to the likes of Radian Group, Ambac Financial, and PMI Group. These stocks were down upwards of 20% on Thursday. But that's just the latest in about a three week near vertical drop in the shares. These are the companies which provide the insurance policies that make good on defaulted mortgage payments. The foreclosure and mortgage default figures keep coming in at higher and higher levels, so it's no surprise at all that the insurers are taking a big hit. It's kind of like the property insurers after a natural disaster. Unlike the latter, though, this situation is not a one time hit. It's something that will keep dragging out for months to come. At the end of it all, those that survive will probably be the stronger for it. The question the market will eventually start trying to answer is which of these firms will survive the current blood letting.
Please tune in next week for another Squawkbox: On the Radar
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| CNN's Arwa Damon reports: Living under threat سبي السنة - 507 sec
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| Jim Jubak: Big Bond Worries on Wall Street - 180 sec
The stock market is in a panic over companies you've never heard of -- Ambac, MBIA and the like. Why? Because if these little-known bond insurers lose their AAA-credit ratings, troubled banks like Citigroup may have to pay more to raise capital, says MSN Money's Jim Jubak.
Hear more from Jim Jubak, the Web's #1 investing columnist, on MSN Money: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Commentary/Experts/Jubak
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