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kleinbl00 · 4834 days ago · link · · parent · post: BofA shifts all its CDO losses onto an FDIC (taxpayer) insured subsidiary
From your link:
>Bank of America’s rating is now four grades below the one Moody’s assigned to JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), the biggest U.S. bank by deposits at midyear, and a level below the rating given to Citigroup Inc. (C), the third-biggest. Bank of America is the only U.S. lender that lacks a rating of A3 or higher among the five firms listed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as having the biggest derivatives books. If I recall correctly, they've been downgraded three times in the past year. Considering the level of catastrophe necessary before Moody's stirs, I think it's safe to assume that the assets being moved are the rankest of garbage. The following is worth a read: