Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Moody's May Cut $5 Billion of CDOs Backed by Subprime Mortgage Securities

(Bloomberg) -- Moody's Investors Service may cut $5
billion of collateralized debt obligations after lowering the
ratings of the subprime mortgages that make up the securities.

A downgrade would affect 184 pieces of 91 CDOs, representing
about 3.6 percent of rated CDOs containing asset-backed
securities, Moody's said in a statement today. Moody's yesterday
sliced ratings on $5.2 billion of subprime bonds that back the
CDOs.


Read more at Bloomberg Bonds News

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