Standard & Poor’s is frozen out of the commercial-mortgage bond market by the biggest underwriters after derailing a $1.5 billion sale by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. last July.
Since then, those banks along with JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG and Morgan Stanley have bypassed S&P’s credit ratings as they issued $11.3 billion of debt linked to skyscrapers, shopping malls and hotels, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
My favorite snippet:
Ed Sweeney , a spokesman for S&P, said the New York-based company’s CMBS analysts weren’t available to discuss the situation. “We believe our ultimate success will be based on the value investors derive from the ratings and research,” he said in an e-mail.
Be on the lookout for Harold McGraw III (known to his friends as Harry 3-I) trying to unload his S&P position ...
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everyone is piling on S&P but they were the first to say BS to bogus AAA ratings. Meanwhile, Fitch and Moodys are doing the same thing they did with subprime, i.e. incremental downgrades which end up with the same result as S&P. Except for Fitch who have yet to d/g a super senior class. I'm biding my time.
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