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Dealing with Puerto Rico exposure

1:52 PM ET Fri, 1 July 2016

Ambac Financial Group is one of the largest insurers of Puerto Rico's debt and has some exposure to today's defaults. Nader Tavakoli, Ambac CEO, discusses.

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