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Nothin' like a monoline!

Risk's recent coverage of monolines:

US regulators reveal plan to split monolines - Monoline insurers could be split into two separate entities under plans being considered to stave off further credit rating downgrades of the troubled municipal bond guarantors...


Monolines show no appetite for Buffett - Warren Buffett’s plan to reinsure wrapped municipal bonds has been given short shrift by monoline bond insurers...


And coverage elsewhere this morning:

Fed's Parkinson on Bond insurance

Banks at Risk of $203 Billion in Writedowns, Says UBS (Update4)

Monoline Death Watch: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Testimony Regarding Bond Insurance (from NY governor Eliot Spitzer)

Solving the Monoline Mess: Bifurcation or Buffett's 'Bailout'?

Ambac in Talks to Split Itself Up

MBIA & Ambac: Wow!

Bond Insurer Seeks to Split Itself, Roiling Some Banks (FGIC, that is)

Sleepless in MuniLand: Interview With David Kotok

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