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Typical senior tranches go to the 82% watermark. At least, that's the attachment point for which base correlation is quoted. So AAA feels the pain at 18% default rate. Hence the freeze: we are almost there.

Pierre
by Pierre on Mon Dec 17th, 2007 at 10:21:43 AM EST
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... AAA starts to feel sore before it feels real hurt, because the quality of a tranch declines as the original junk tranches are zeroed out.


Utsukushikereba sore de ii
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Dec 18th, 2007 at 06:01:19 PM EST
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