Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have prompted Standard & Poor'sto revise its global reinsurance outlook to negative fromstable.

But the same events have led equity analysts at Morgan Stanleyto upgrade the primary and secondary insurance industries fromin-line to attractive.

S&P credit analyst Simon Marshall said the negative outlookreflects the near-term strains Katrina losses will impose on theindustry.

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