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Moody's had downgraded more than three-quarters of C.D.O.

The day before, Moody's had downgraded more than $2.5 billion of the city's debt, citing its lack of cash.

The experience of other nations that have been downgraded, including Japan and Canada, both downgraded more than a decade ago, suggests that investors do not necessarily react by demanding higher interest rates.

Standard & Poor's, the credit ratings agency, yesterday downgraded more than 1,700 bonds tied to mortgages that were issued this year, including more than three dozen that received the agency's highest rating a few months ago.

But the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said the report showed that passport checks had been downgraded more than 2,000 times after it was decided to weaken border controls.

Indeed, Mr. Waxman noted that S.& P. had downgraded more than two-thirds of its investment-grade ratings and Moody's had reduced assigned ratings on more than 5,000 mortgage-backed securities.

For instance, Fitch Ratings is considering downgrading more than 25percentt of the AAA-rated bonds issued by American mortgage-related C.D.O.'s.

Investors are snapping up the bonds even though default rates are rising and ratings agencies like Moody's are downgrading more companies than they are upgrading.

Last year, Moody's had to downgrade more than 5,000 mortgage securities — a tacit acknowledgment that the mortgage bubble was abetted by its overly generous ratings.

On January 30th S&P downgraded or threatened to downgrade more than 8,000 bonds and CDOs, noting that financial institutions' losses tied to them could more than double to a mind-boggling $265 billion.Add to this the potential bill from the monoline bond-insurer debacle.

Every year in France, seed producers must downgrade more than 12,000 tons of seeds.