Banks, insurers brace for worse damage from meltdown of monolines
The pressure piled up on the monoline bond insurance industry this week, in the wake of Ambac Assurance’s downgrade on Friday to AA by Fitch. Stalking markets are fears that downgrades — or even defaults — of the big monolines could tear new holes in the balance sheets of banks and insurance companies.
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