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urance business: • insurance- primarily commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines and admitted lines, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, South America, Canada. Scandinavia. Asia and Australia; and • Reinsurance- reinsurance business on a facultative and treaty ba

it for securities similar to the debentures. The rating agencies that currently publish a rating for us, including Moody's Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC business, and A.M. Best Company, Inc., may, from time to time in the future, change the way they analyze

in the United Kingdom This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus are only being distributed to, and is only directed at, persons in the United Kingdom that are qualified investors within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Directive that are also (i) investment professionals falling wi

purchase price. The Series A Preferred Shares may not be rated and, if rated, their ratings could be lowered. We expect that Fitch Ratings Inc. and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services will assign ratings to the Series A Preferred Shares. Generally, rating agencies base their ratings on such material and information, and such of t

riting standards to the values of its mortgages and mortgage- backed assets. Between April and June of 2006, the Company faced repeated crises in its United Kingdom subsidiary as a result of poor performance of U.K. loans due to weak underwriting standards. As a result, the Company was left holding some $1.5 bil

ay cause a slowdown in its investment banking operation." The Company's stock fell $6.03 as a result, closing at $121.22. 228. On August 3, 2007, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it had revised its outlook on Bear Steams from stable to negative. Notwithstanding the Company's denials, the ratings firm explained that "Bea

ting given by as provided in clauses (0, (g) and (h) above. "Moody's Group I Country": Any of the following countries: Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and any country subsequently determined by Moody's to be a Moody's Group I Country (provided that the Trustee is notified in writing of such determ

obal Security": The meaning specified in Section 2.2(c). "Rule 144A Information": The meaning specified in Section 7.15. "M' or "Standard & Poor's: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor or successors thereto. CDO Monitor": A dynamic, analytical computer program devel