Assured also announced today it had insured 60 transactions for the month of September 2008 for $1.0 billion of par in the direct new issue U.S. public finance market, representing 5.2% of total public finance volume and 35.3% of insured activity. This was a significant increase compared to September 2007 in which Assured wrapped 19 transactions for $181.7 million of par, or 0.6% of total public finance volume and 1.2% of insured activity.
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I bet ago will have a good quarter.