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Risk/Reward Analysis Makes Financial Insurers a Buy

 Aug 25, 2008 11:21 AM UTC
Return Risk
-57.84% HIGH
Tracked Blogger
Symbol Sentiment Start Return Closed
MBI Positive 08/25/08 -58.88% --
ABK Positive 08/25/08 -79.85% --
RDN Positive 08/25/08 -29.64% --

Graphic_arrow1 Via Long Investment Ideas from Seeking Alpha:  

In my last article I said that financial insurers could very well be the subject for another piece about financial conundrums. In fact, the conundrum here is very well explained by the unfair behavior of some folks who were shorting those securities, helped by the usual behavior of the mainstream media (a megaphone for the strongest screaming at any given time).

Since then, there have been some excellent pieces, which have done a very good job restoring the truth and exposing the bad faith of some market actors and the lunacy of the rest. As I could not do better and as I hate to waste words (there are already tons of vain words in every field of our life), I refer to them:




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