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EA expected to swing to profit in evening session - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 19 hours 59 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Electronic Arts Inc. is expected to swing to a quarterly profit when the video-game publisher posts results Monday evening and bond insurer MBIA Inc. is expected to report a narrower loss from the year-ago period.


MZF Announces Annual Shareholder Meeting and Appointment of New Trustee [Press Release]
Business Wire | 23 days 16 hours 54 minutes ago
(NYSE:MZF) - MBIA Capital/Claymore Managed Duration Investment Grade Municipal Fund, a closed-end management investment company, announces that its annual shareholder meeting will be held at the offices of Claymore Securities (2455 Corporate West Drive, Lisle, IL 60532) on January 29, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Central Time.


Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP Announces ERISA Investigation of MBIA, Inc. on Behalf of MBIA, Inc. 401(k) Plan Participants [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 66 days 17 hours 19 minutes ago
...Check, LLP Announces ERISA Investigation of MBIA, Inc. on Behalf of MBIA, Inc. 401(k) Plan Participants PRNewswire RADNOR...has commenced an investigation relating to MBIA, Inc. ("MBIA" or the "Company") and potential...


U.S. stocks edge higher with consumer shares - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 12 days 23 hours 43 minutes ago
The Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/comstock/10w!i:dji/delayed (INDU 10,246, +19.12, +0.19%) was up 22 points, or 0.3%, to 10,249 in recent trading.


NYPPEX Report: Net Liquidity for Capital Calls Varies Widely Among Insurance Companies [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 16 hours 4 minutes ago
NYPPEX, a leading global secondary private market advisory, trading and research firm for illiquid assets released to customers its report Net Liquidity for Capital Calls Varies Widely Among Insurance Companies (the “Report”).


Financial action could spill into late session - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 12 days 18 hours 37 minutes ago
Unease over tighter regulations also weighed on the sector after Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., unveiled a package of bank-reform measures that would create a consolidated bank regulator and limit the fallout of a collapsing bank deemed "too big to fail." See story on Dodd's financial-oversight legislation.


Financials rise, besting broader market - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 35 minutes ago
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Financials rise modestly, besting broader market - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 16 minutes ago
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Mortgage insurers may remain busy in late trades - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 37 days 19 hours 53 minutes ago
After the first wave of third-quarter results, earnings season is off to a decent start. Fully 79% of the S&P companies that have reported results have topped expectations. MarketWatch's Christopher Noble takes a look at what's coming next.


Financials retreat, but Assured Guaranty rallies - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 6 days 28 minutes ago
Drug stocks dip; Alkermes gains for second day


Weak report, job cuts hit EA shares - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 12 days 20 hours 20 minutes ago
EA shares gave up $1.37 to fall to $18.15 following the company's late-Monday report and restructuring plans. The company said layoffs equal about 17% of the company's current workforce, with 900 positions being cut from the game development units.


Assured Guaranty jumps 22% after results - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 20 hours 54 minutes ago
Operating earnings, which exclude net realized investment gains and losses and other items, came in at $70.1 million, or 44 cents a share, up from third-quarter 2008 operating income of $26 million, or 28 share, the bond insurer said.


Boston Fed chief: Living wills could play key role - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 12 days 22 hours 45 minutes ago
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Company: MBIA Inc.
Industry: Surety Insurance
Website: http://www.mbia.com

MBIA will make sure that bonds get paid, no matter what. Through its independent subsidiary, National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation, MBIA is a leading provider of insurance for municipal bonds and stable corporate bonds (such as utility bonds). Separate from its municipal bond business, MBIA also manages assets for public-sector clients, guarantees bank deposits for government entities, and insures insurance companies' guaranteed investment contracts. Other lines of business include tax compliance services and buying and servicing municipal real estate tax liens. It operates from three US offices and three in Europe as well as ones in Mexico City, Tokyo, and Sydney.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) -856.6 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Sales 0.0 (2008)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) -2,672.7 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Net Income 0.0 (2008)
Number of Employees 420 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees -13.6 (2008)
Fiscal Year-End December