Daily Archives: June 19, 2007

Conflicts of interest make bond rating agencies slow to downgrade

TD Institutional Services reports today that on Friday, credit-rating agency Moody’s cut the ratings on 131 bonds backed by pools of speculative subprime loans because of unusually high rates of default and delinquencies among the underlying mortgages (WSJ). Moody’s also … Continue reading

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