Methodologies queried as WaMu cuts continue

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Methodologies queried as WaMu cuts continue

Moody's yesterday (Monday) cut Washington Mutual's covered bond rating from A3 to Baa1, and left it on watch negative, in an unexpectedly swift follow-up on last week's downgrade of the instruments from A2 to A3.

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