Ambac; Perhaps We Misspoke

from Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis and CNN:

Ambac originally projected that losses on the underlying collateral of the Bear Stearns transaction would be between 10% and 12%, but now expects losses at 81.8% of underlying collateral, a transaction that has seen an unexpectedly " rapid escalation of losses," and represents an outsized percentage of the insurer's expected credit impairment, Wallis said.