Wednesday, July 25, 2007

AAA CDO, Subprime-Bond Credit Rating `Sins' Not Same, Bear Stearns Says

(Bloomberg) -- Investors fleeing even top-rated
subprime-mortgage securities are wrong to worry they may
default, according to a Bear Stearns Cos. analyst.

Even if they're right to feel ratings firms mistakenly
provided AAA assessments to some bonds from collateralized debt
obligations that will lose principal, the mortgage-bond CDO
securities are ``more fragile'' than the AAA pieces of subprime-
mortgage deals, Gyan Sinha wrote in a report yesterday. The
securities also have more ``cushion'' against likely losses than
AAA bonds backed by home equity loans, he said.


Read more at Bloomberg Bonds News

No comments: