Moody’s cuts WaMu rating
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Moody’s Investors Service cut Washington Mutual Inc.’s credit rating and said the Seattle-based savings and loan would need at least $4 billion more than expected to cover bad mortgages in 2008.
Moody’s said its action reflected a “rapid deterioration” of the housing market in the first few months of the year, echoing another rate cut by Standard & Poor’s a week ago.
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