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Ratings news was all about downgrades today.
Changes to Fitch Ratings’ subprime loss forecasting assumptions led to downgrades on the following subprime residential mortgage-backed securities:
Fitch also downgraded less than $0.1 billion of two American Home Mortgage Investment Trust deals from 2005. Moody’s Investors Service announced downgrades of the following subprime RMBS classes based on higher-than-anticipated rates of delinquency, foreclosure and REO in the underlying collateral relative to credit enhancement levels:
Four LaSalle Commercial Mortgage Securities Inc. deals from 2006 and 2007 saw $58 million in classes downgraded as a result of an increase in the number of specially serviced loans and increased loss expectations since Fitch’s last rating action. Class D of ARCap 2003-1 Re-securitization Inc., series 2003-1, for $15 million was downgraded by Fitch. |
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Sam Garcia worked in mortgage lending for twenty years prior to becoming publisher of MortgageDaily.com. e-mail:Â mtgsam@aol.com |