Assured Guaranty Ltd. (AGO), the holding company for Assured Guaranty Corp. and Financial Security Assurance Inc., said Monday that Assured Guaranty Corp. guaranteed 864 U.S. public finance new issue transactions, totaling $17.8 billion in par insured, during the first half of 2009. Par insured for the comparable period of 2008 was $17.8 billion.
Assured Guaranty Corp. insured 9.1% of total U.S. public finance new issue volume in the first half of 2009, compared with 7.8% of par issued in last year's first half.
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