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Australia, Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance - Friday, February 1, 2008 20:22 - 0 Comments
Monolines the next shoe to drop?
Australian Financial Review, February 2008
Investors have weathered the storm of sub-prime, the credit crunch, a possible US recession and falling local and global stock markets. But they’re not out of the woods yet. The next thing to worry about: monolines.
Monolines are global bond insurers. They came into being in the US to insure US municipal bonds against credit losses. The best known are MBIA, AMBAC and FDIC and until recently they were seen as some of the strongest and most impregnable financial institutions in the world. Continue…
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