Mortgage Insurance

Fitch Withdraws Ratings on Radian 

In the literary world, it’s called the denouement — the series of events that serve to wrap up a dramatic turn or climax of a story. After a public row with Radian Group Inc. [stock RDN][/stock] late last year over a ratings downgrade that the mortgage insurer didn’t feel was appropriate, Fitch Ratings said Friday that it had withdrawn its ratings of the company and its subsidiaries.