Fitch Discusses U.S. Structured Finance 2008 Outlook Today 11AM ET.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Every segment of the U.S. structured finance market was adversely affected by the unprecedented financial market dislocation dislocation, displacement of a body part, usually a bone. When a bone is dislocated, the ends of opposing bones are usually forced out of connection with one another. In the process, bruising of tissues and tearing of ligaments may occur. in 2007. Whether 2008 brings a continuation of that trend or if the new year marks a new beginning remains to be seen. Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings An international rating agency for financial institutions, insurance companies, and corporate, sovereign, and municipal debt. Fitch Ratings has headquarters in New York and London and is wholly owned by FIMALAC of Paris. will be hosting a conference call this morning at 11 a.m. ET to address each area of U.S. structured finance. Senior Fitch analysts will be providing an overview of the Outlook for each structured finance sector for the coming year, with each session lasting approximately 5-to-10 minutes. A Q&A session will immediately follow the prepared remarks. The agenda is as follows: -- Introduction: John Bonfiglio; -- U.S. Economic Overview/ Outlook: Kevin D'Albert; -- U.S. ABS: Kevin Duignan; -- U.S. CMBS CMBS See: Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities : Susan Merrick; -- U.S. RMBS RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities RMBS Rambus, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) RMBS Russian Mortgage-Backed Securities : Grant Bailey/ Suzanne Mistretta; -- U.S. CDOs: Mia Koo. Participants who wish to submit questions in advance of today's call can do so by e-mailing questions@fitchratings.com. Following are the details of the teleconference: -- Date: Thursday Dec. 13, 2007 -- Time: 11:00 a.m. ET -- Conference ID: 27983751 -- U.S./Canada: +1-866-529-2924 -- International: +1-706-634-4949 -- Call Leader: John Bonfiglio Replay Information: -- Replay Dates: Dec. 13, 2007, 12:00 p.m. ET - Jan. 13, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. ET -- U.S./Canada: +1-800-642-1687 -- International: +1-706-645-9291 -- Replay ID: 27983751 Fitch will be discussing its Rating Outlook for structured finance in more detail as part of a full report scheduled to be published shortly. The report will be available on both the Fitch Ratings and Derivative Fitch web site at www.fitchratings.com and www.derivativefitch.com, respectively. Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use Terms of Use are rules set up by the owner of an intellectual property or service to govern how they may be legally used. In many cases, terms of service are used as a contractual agreement between a company and users of a service they provide. of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site. |
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